The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-08-27 00:00:00

BLANDFORD AND THE ROUTE Of THE

SOUTHERN ARMY OORPS.

Th. "rpecial" of the Standard gives the following
intorcating nolo' oe Woodford, sod the route of the
Bouthoru army oorps to moot lb. defeediag form.
The Woodford Downs aro • totally Merest sort of
country from those 'Worthy Harapshim moors on
shbaki the tovadms divisious of 1871 drew their foram
together. Tim little t 0... lies near ohs south- week Gomm
of the maragiovre dimriat smugly enasoneed forsooth
the Downs in a throttle whore the Stour, after winding
through Um wide vale of Blookmoor, elipa between the
high sheik rouges on balmy to join lb. Salisbury Avon
in Christchurch Hay.
The old Mash real from London to Raster split tato
two at Salisbury. l'hs rood ram to &Mar by way of
Bath and Bristol, maids( over ground whloh the
Blandford Army will occupy to their third day's
commuvroo Th• other road brasehed nff oeuthwacis
eir.and twoaty miles over ths Downs to Woodford •
theme 16 miles more to Donthertar, sad so to Faster,
by way of Brid_port. Hard by the sisot where Wilts,
Somerset, earl Dorset meet, the northernmost of them
two roods bridges • Wile brook, Ma infant Stow, which
bubbles out la litoartoa woods Dear by. At Stour
Head Sir Richard Colt lieere, antiquary in Wiltshire
aid backer is Fleet-street, believed that ha indestilled
the pima wham Lag Allred salaried his staradard
against the Dim.; mod two Sir Richard built • high
tower, oa the brew of • wooded doolivity, from whom
top you see both Masse* sod adorned it. port.!
with.. 'misogamist"' airman of the great sod good
mootroh. At Blandford the Stour, Mooch muse •
more of miles from its room as the *row Aim, has b•-
°out* • sheer rushy straws, aboat as wide as Hatboro
at Stapleton ; but it hos wandered 'may soave miles
inßloolimoor Vale before it got so far. • wild tido
ore" that country had Monmouth, flying from
Sedgmoor oaly lo be betrayed • few days War,
larking half-starved in • pea flald near Wisharae.
Planty of 'nab ran through Woodford in the old
cooriehtag days. You might ride north-east to lialisbary
sod Loudon, soath.wass to Darshaster and Exeter,
aorth-west to Shoshone, dua north to Shailmibury asd
Bath and south-east, playing lad. and wok wite the
river, to Wirabonte and Poole. Bat the easehas are
all gem by, and poor old Westbrook, the best and boa-
'Most of mail-mem drivers, who drove betwom Pods
aid Bath three times • week eseh way, died very poor
• low years ago, driving a railway omnibus at a noigh.
bosriag town. Now the SOIDIMIM aid Dorsal Railway
takes ikardierd on It. way from Bambara to Wire
berse.but yea will not Hod It. shares quoted in the
share lisle ; the Hog moor paid& dividond ; receivers
from the Omit alf Charmer, dominate its tolls, sad it
has to.. • lid badmen for moo of As wig bbouriag
Ladownook lobo joisod la soak gumbos sad as
thug Ike brinsilis pathos.

The Bite toes Ws seasforeddy ass anthem
elope, washed by tba etour, ebiab separates It trots a
ones strutch of eltwatucnitui meadows ; srerteard Ii
hemmed in clove by Lord Pertinan's park of Bryenetoo,
thnibib whith the river curette with a bald swmp from
hutt.hwetd, under • lofty cliff of hanging woods. You
mey stand ou Blandford Bndge, • bowshot out on the
Durehester ruai, awl see imic Making, and the big
purple-birred perch out.. sailing dowu from the Bryan.
Ott, . *ski..., and envy tern In weather like this.
Looking up and down the main thoroughfares, whieh
ci liratie the town like the Limbs of an L, there Is •
p mama eicis of gently-ineenderiegetreet, shops and ol-
dish red tiled houses, liberally interepersed with swinging
signboards, and the cherohyarl holm at the end of the
market-place. Of enures, the phut* I. thronged and
stirring enough now, what with infantry, eavalry,
artillery, sod transport service, camped on Hungry
bow, and the Haoseourse eastward., and ou Mill
Down," France," and Camp Down by the lhafteebury-
road (anti. DOWD Lake. it, newer from a camp which
was mere at the time of tla Ilnetw riot.). At onlioary
twine Illandford 0 jileL lin.•tly boating. ...demos
ercet-ceuutry market too.. should be. It has never
mot burgesses to Parlament Bios* the days of Ildward
111. when ocoustltuencise paid wages to their mealier%
and muittimee complained grievously of the intolerable
burden of repreecutation. It got • °barter from James
sod has market, and feint, at which you may walk
'WWII lanes mid rows of Dorestehire cheese, known
lacaly aa "blue whiny," and outwardly resembling
griLIAILOn•e. There te no manufsatur• here now ; to
I icier days the distnct produced large quantities of
the oli-fisishweed thread ehirt-butMoe bom-lese
MU, weer, of which latter se old tray.ll:r reported that
be had see. epee:amens waled at £3O • yard; but to-
ward, the closed the Met century the town is described
so depending for its chief support on the travellers by
the grt at reale, the traffic of ism markets and fain, sod
the resort of the country g to Me rams held us
the neighbuuriug downs. Local record, give long lista
of ' "Ghee and six bays," with Ismer equipages,
aimostomed to resort to teat kilend!ord meecouree with
nnt'cn no u"or L 0141.44 sad rolooteers will bate become
halUilial.l by the 31 of next Slitember. A regular
p .011,, tat, woe made by the '• pleyere' who rotartaisied
kJ neighbourhood on the., moesioue. Ti,,, rem down
Istaut., bet the last race we• eUO lass) year. ace.
I titel that in ins atm...a of 1786 two regiment., of
dr .go.ins mei six of fet were encsinpel here for three

uhouLils uts.:er 111.•.rdatAut tho Dug. of
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1.6310.1. The mil lionuysti Bianoford mos-courm of
latter years bate been when the Dorset yeomaary cuss
Or their eight days' training under the late Lord
lloliester. They were never camped, but billeted in
Woodford, ana sad reviewed on lb* rem-
does. Tney were floe stalwart man, well horsed, earl
good riders—huatiag many of them with Kr. Feria-
berme's hounds, Lord Nieman's, se other peck.;
impala marerial, though I have baud adverse argues
mil=would have been the ruin of nay cm, d seats
ag on their evolutioaa
andford hos been repeatedly destroyed by Sr., end
In 1731, church, town ball, and everything save 40
homes, were totally eossaated. The einallitax rood
at the dine, and the dicoreas beggared description • but
he town palled throarit, sad you may now drink at •
town pump, mauled, in 1760, by one John Bastard,
himsed a sufferer by the flre, "to gratatal aokao wledg-
meat of the Divine matey that hos does raised litue
town like • Omni' from Ito ashes to Its present baste-
lid and flourishing state." Of the pretest ehuroh, how•
ever, lb.leas said the bettor. Yoe will understand me
whim; I quote the eulogy at a writer of brow days,
who desonbes It aa "C neat betiding, *empanel will
Portland it..., ant ooastraoted in the Greatim style of
arehiteature, with °Mucous of it. Dodo order,' with •
pepporMoz oupoLa stop of the tower. Apd yet,
menowed by au wore or so of years, its very ugiutessi.
not uukaadeotne. loalde is • paella' 'rearms that
piece, with • ben-relief in wood of plains sad ail much/
of frou sannottoted by • cast glit stork or Oasis-
If you go to &today of Bernaott shun* you may be
surprised as seeing twelve hamakes displayed an
the omatnanioo table—earaisbody'a dale ai breed,
distributed every dandy steer thumb saucirdiag
to beuelaotion. to the old town week; Mose by
, in the pig market, Woodford pellet sot thirty year,
old have mew °Headers set for twelve hoar's' demise.
Fah may the old wisp was so give the primate. a Kg
seise fun his proteetioa against rude man and boys. I
do not know what preterite's he wee to Wive after
disharglag that one shot. A Wile further does the
liseasinet, which leads to Heagry Down and the old
Whaberne road, ore the bulldogs of Blaudlerd Gram.
our Betool, which, however, appears not to be Woad.
ford tirommar &hoot at all, bat Killen Abbas. The
otboot wan tattooed et Whoa Abase, hall.way over to
Dorchester, by en abbot of *Alcoa abbey, in 1521 (12th
dewy VIII.), and is therefore older Mar most thiginet
grammar *shorts. Mateo Abbot is new • mere viliege,
end toe abbey, ease in the Partarlingion family, wits
bought some twenty yosts ego by Bares Hombre.
Awes 1765 the thee earner of the abbey oriasetied •
4141110 to • estiool pleated so near his marmiatt nod
stirred &Avon and earth to remove It by net of paella.
heat to some nelghbouriag town. LS length, dive
teem you's' litigation, th. school woe moved by
statute to Biandirod ; sad I {oink It ougl to be
isoorkbod that he seinen trustees, neighbouring gentry,
paid out of thew own pookete every fart:twig at hues
meaty yetis' law onto. &ire Yu whoa& now la sad
cull sports the Milton Abbey ihroos--s•laka three Wakens
ol bread, or. Nelson'. Captain Hardy we. • Hideo
Abbas schoolboy. The plemmateet way tip to the amps
on tte ram-down la down thla Krems aad up the
" Demur, lie•dows," prolog an old manor house, now
• firm, whimi in bygooetages belonged to the HYees, an
ill wescooustry stook. Kra Rivet, who • few years
ago nude rather a oedema flake ea the 11•111
••• • widow of • demeadaat of this family. Taste
used to bee greet oak in them meadow', wth • bellow
trunk "in whiolt an old man sold ale darted the lAN
War." The old man might have • " quirk dragght,"
11 he maid cell ale there aow; bat fila tree was rooted
up in 17551, and .old for £l4.
The dowas are • gay sight now. Peeing the soil-
cry eemp en Hungry Dorm, near the old Wimborae-
r.mi, I heard as imuridael of the artillery giviag sent,
in Goo•orssibto INS& nestv to wellmmeseed pees of
"Geoff," which I Wok originated at Dorehaster vein
before the Crouse war. It Woe* Olt of an spoor,.
phal emeadatin Meseta by soils wag whoa some artillery
sweat Dorchester, about • pair of farater's bops betas
dasovered prylog about • pen in gaping earlosity, sae
trying to pelt he trigger wails the other was holding
• basket to the mow, to asteh the prodeet, aad oryiag
out to hi, comrade s" Let's' aff eddy, John." " Les's
al saftlyf John," we. a pleas of regognised ahaff for •
los( time aim:wards, bet I thought It lad bees fit.
gotten by Shia time. What vitality here to In idiom I
Before leaving Blandon! I ought,
_perhaps, to gay
that lost 'allot further off, os the aid Wisslaorseread,
• Modiste:a from &LOMA Geary aide, to Bedbary Wags,
• Ricoh atttioaary shop with trig*, Aaiun, from wheat
:be Ackling Doou o traokway raw nearly Is • bee-
Lae to Old Sarum, noosing the fitlisbary taraphe near
the sibibo•••El training quarters at Woodyates Inn.
The Woodford army in ha mush north-west to meal
the •ierny coming from Peweey will have to traverse
part of entaborne Oahe, which woe case as big aa the
New Forest. ?wash tillage has made great farads,
there are still housands of acres of forest primeval;
wheteby, when ants ere brown, the streets of Wishes-
Miry &slay to vista • populatioa cracking haad auto as
tom also (1 believe that all the rest or the your the
, Sludiesbary folk walk abaft aeleop--they seem so).
Cranhorse Caw belonged to King John, jars arorio,
and he bad • banes, places& Tallied Biqa I. Meek.
WWII Yale, bete•th, is a Maroc coiled °Mpg Slog."
Ever sloes tb• time whoa a laves/Cm deer of Jelin's ma
swey tato he vale every parish hat let the deer per
without stopping it was punished with • ostala melee,
which continued to be peel till quite reently.Atter being
in the Glouoseter line for 250 years, end perwlag through
serious hands subseqsaatly, th. Dame was greeted by
Jam..!. to Bari Banbury. Eventually It on.. to Lord
Rivers, Its latest owes/. &sealer weed eiturtis used to
be held by the lorda if the Oleos, sad during the fume
montha, when he deer wen droppisi their fawns, the
the lords levied • tail et 41. for wagger and Li. for
packhorses en treble imedag through. To give Donee
of hie a pair of sailers used to be eel up one neigh.
1 bowing bridge. After meet Illtlgatioa about Immobile%
the Clues wee at last distramotilied by *dale la 181,
under an arrangemsat by which the image sad his heirs
were to native • thieve of £l3OO • year in lies of the
obese rigida. In the preamble to the a
eat the deer were estimated at between twelve acelidte
twenty thousand. There are none now.
Kelbury Down, which is named as • eimplag ground
for the Blandford army oa its northward =nth, le three
or four miles southerly of Shaftesbury ; peat of lt Ilee
very high, and from the top of the hill you the
Needles, Glsetonbary Tor aad P The
routes thither from Blaadfc:rd are all la* oeseary. The
modern turnpike winds In and out analog Gelds end
orchards at the foot of the chalk range Weeding a skim
of trWages by the way.
Darweistons not fax front he camp at" France,* is
the notary of Lord dydney 0 odolphia Osborne,
better known to the public as " it. G. O." at the
Times.

-It twerp, I note ea &A odd maniple of old days that
ID the lith ot Henry VL the akar of lwers• wee
&Unshed for killing with bow and arrow font wild pigs
on literno U.

&two Waldron is noteworthy as the reeler, of
Parson !Instable (a name honoured by selestilla agri-
culturists), who was a famous high farmer in days whim
high farrow was not in popular as It is sow.
Footing! ia assmisted with a noble memory whisk
must be still frisk is the remelectioa of many soldiers
who will We that 'Maio • few dirtstio.hesee.
gsikeld 17 , .C. Belkeld the Delhi was sof
sa
the rector of Fontme/E, and his hereto late ls com-
mies:gated ors an obelisk in the amok' std.
The old rood hoot Bleadford to Beteth,widoit
will probably be traversed by • portion et troops, runs
afaag sae UM, nem the edge of the chalk nap. Prom
three heights there Is a grand view over alsoggioar
V. 1., nide, fertile, and richly timbered, dotted by gray
ohurch-towers neoked with sunshine, sad whiled fa
southwards by Mot bootdion Magsla.._of dan-green
dam. with pugs spent kink( and oreastleg oat tato
the level ehampeign like van breakwaters On the
nearnet down, Idamb,edon Hill, which rises got of
valley Mara laugh wallowing vital* two la. ion,, ia a
'wry Nye and puha seams. le 1645 • body a lii.
Weit-imuctry oisbauto,—oouritry folk. who beaded
themselves partly to the RuyalNi Wise, sad partly 10 protect tlusaselves from MO hafpummt.
of
Late armlet—took concretion in tho old mulareork on
Liamtaagog. This Is how (kosenell disposed at them
aaa wards la • letter to FaMtemu nadir date 4th
Atignitty, 1645:
..s drawn iuto One of the old campa,upou • vary MO
hilL I ant ooe Mi. Lea to thent,to mild, the peaciashlienar of
infootioakand to desire than .° peocaableoem and to submit
So Me Pariiament. Tbay infused, and tried at at. I gout him
• mood Liam to Mt Man know that if tb•t would lay dole°
their semi uo wrong should be dooe Mem _sail (ihromh
the mini Aim ul their leader., acid two elk, mini.
tan) related. I commanded your captain üsllanlll to draw
Op to them, to be In readinem to Marge, and if ape his falling
on Mey would ley down arum, to accept Swim sod spars them.
When we came neas• they refused hie alit, sac het if at him,
killed about two id Ma moo and at low four harm. The
paiemis uot Wind tor abore three Mem* kept ne out whom
upon Mayor Deebrowe wheeled Mont. got lo th• roared than,
bait them from the work, and did some Moab esessitoe wpm
them—l believe killed not twelve of theca, but teM vary many,
ood • put than all to Illghte We ham Mkati Meet soo, maim
of which us poor ally criaturen who if you plum to Ni ma mad home, they promise to hey,, dutiful kr time to coma,
sod will be hafted before they ones oat sole."
Shattosbary, where are still NUM remains 01 the third
largest abbey In the ldageoet, N within tie. assosavre
dime" has the filonetard aray wlll isave Is ea *sir
lett heed and nureit In • mortturans dinettes over lie
MO spa lads wig* drift Minus Nug,

Foothill, will& is imalisood as the pits& fee a samp ,
re the mooed night from Bleadfortl, is well k"" is
the pleas where 13eakford, the mosotrie author of
" Vathek." built a gorgeetui palace at express speed,
trirh a high tamer which tumbled down in one
still more osprey. It wee said that Foothill tower sould
be seen from " Beokford's Folly." whMh still steads oa
We heights of Lansdowne, over Bath.
During the week both army write have been entirely
employed with 6.1 d days, brigade drill, and outpost
duty ; and the arida find but little to rotapion of.
Oo fueeday morning roue of the brig.o.,s sornemei.g
the South.ro Army were exerateed for the firm wito to
brigade evolutions, while others did nothing. A eolooel
spoke plointively of having had nothing to do but to
ran his men up and down ty keep their I.es from seedl-
ing. Najor.Geserol Greethead, eommondleir the First
Brigade of the Somnd Division, gave We two regurnr
regiments of his brigade, the 7th and 93rd ;Nadler.;
some opportune preliminary prsetior in forepost work.
The theatre of opsratioor was the valley of the
Tarrant, • shall etruara beading to thu ...mare, the
dorm on ohioh the infoutry ounp is loomed. The
posed irover•i by the, outpost chars, extended trout
Tarrant Stynstoue on the right of Torrant—Winktoon
oa the left —a distance of about two mile.. The
"swig" of the Daily News severely criticism both
ciMeen and men.
The Hoary Cavalry Brigade dad some very interesting
outpost preetioe further afield than where Unotherid's
Brigade was working. Colonel Towers had the dbl.
qtion of three regimenta, Sir Thomism 11111.ahon p.;-
visits of inspectioo.
his week the Northera army begins its march in
two colognes. On Tesedoy, the right goes a• for m
Bratashill end the lett to Hassler wroth, each plod
just twelve mile• from Allershot, pitch Weir tent. at
an early hour and net until Wednesday, when the
right ',dhow moralise to Burghlield, 11 tulles, and the
left to Silottenter, 13* tail's. On Tounday the right
soluoth advames to Crookbant either by Vie north
route, which Is 11 miles, or by the south. .bide ii 10;
atid the left ooluorn moves to Greenhaur by the north
route, whieth la /0 miles, or the south route, which is
12. On Friday the right column will eutiaiop aerie-
where about Hungerforci or Froclieid, after a men-oh of
17 mile., sad the left coition otos, to Bedwin and
Harden( after an equally load inoroh. On Saturday,
the 31,0, the right mitten will euearap as Pewee, and
Wouebridge, a dietwaos of 17 miles from Haugerford,
and 174 from Fro:Geld. The I.ft will pitch Weir tent.
about Upevon, einem Is about 15 mum from ilardiug,
and UI from Bedwie. Sunday, the let, and lloaday,
the 2nd of September, will be days of rest.
On Tuesday, the 3r4 al September. the Miro armies
begin to march towards each other, the Northers army
' south-oeet, sod the Southern north-weet.
Mvs.t.haitag
t day the former army will amuse at ?iglu'.
dens, white& is tea sake from Yummy, eight from
Woodbridge, and six from Operas. Os Wednesday,
September 4, it will be at Aineebary, five miles further
maw, and on Thursday, the 6th, it will advisees tans
miles gad throoquartors further, mid eseamp at Cod-
ford. On Friday, September 6, the hostile armies will
gems into oollisioa for the Ant lime, sod • great bottle
may be expeceed. No one lames at what exact spot
, this and the severol other engegemeate Will b. fought
between that dots old the 12th. when lb. Blallosums
will sad with a grand mareh past.