# DEDICATION

TO

THE LANDOWNERS OF DORSET

THE COUNCIL FOR THE PRESERVATION
OF RURAL ENGLAND

THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION
OF ANCIENT BUILDINGS

AND

ALL THOSE COURAGEOUS ENEMIES OF 'DEVELOPMENT'
TO WHOM WE OWE WHAT

IS LEFT OF
ENGLAND.

## PREFACE

In compiling this guide to Dorset I soon found it necessary to take a firm line and keep to it. Dorset is a county so rich in material that it would be impossible to make even the condensed survey the composition allows without at first defining for oneself certain fixed limits. To see the county steadily and see it whole—that way, I decided, madness must lie. I have attempted, therefore, to select from the land's wealth of facts and features only those which seem peculiar to itself. Even so, my omissions must be considerable. But, in trying to decide the weight of many claims to distinction, my test has been invariably the question: Can this be found equally or better represented elsewhere? The form the guide takes is designed to give the most straightforward view of the county's resources as they are to-day. Historical references, anecdotes and legends have been ruthlessly curtailed. These may be read in a dozen books at comfortable length. Here they would be cramped.

The Gazetteer, also, is severely condensed, but follows a plan which may prove more useful than a string of names and unselected facts set down in alphabetical order. A fair amount of space has been given to a description of the animal and plant life of Dorset since it is a county unusually full of interest in that respect. The most difficult task of all has been the selection of subjects for illustration. This has been based chiefly upon the conviction that the coast is the most compelling feature of all the lively characteristics of the county. The plates will be found to include a number of drawings. These have been made to illustrate certain aspects of the scene which the camera could not satisfactorily record.

I have based the guide throughout upon the first and, to my mind, the best of the series—*Cornwall, by John Betjeman*. That is to say, I have, in the main,

examined and admired the way he has treated each section, and then done something as different as possible. This is because I recognise Mr. Betjeman as highly ingenious but inimitable; even so, to him must go my first acknowledgement. My second is to Mr. Jack Beddington, of Shell Mex, who invited me to undertake this rather unusual task. If I had realised, at first, the amount of time and solid work involved, I doubt whether I should have accepted; but now I am glad of that ignorance, for it has brought me incalculable gain. My third acknowledgement goes to Mr. Archibald Russell, Lancaster Herald, and distinguished entomologist, for his most interesting article on Dorset's Flora and Fauna. My fourth to Brigadier-General Patch, for his great kindness in compiling the notes upon Sport. My warmest thanks, naturally, are due to those friends who have been chiefly concerned in helping me to make the guide, and but for whose kindness in motoring me over the county, I could have made nothing of it. For being able to see Dorset under the best possible conditions, I have to thank, severally, Mrs. Archibald Russell, Mrs. Felce and General F. R. Patch. Two friends remain who have given me invaluable help. I am most grateful to Mr. Maurice Beck for his co-operation in making the covers and end-papers and for taking a series of perfect photographs. Finally I am indebted to Miss Ruth Clark for the many ways, theoretical and practical, in which she has contributed to the construction of this guide to Dorset. The principal modern reference books I have used, and which I warmly recommend, are *Dorset*, by Frank R. Heath (Methuen); *The Dorset Landscape*, by G. G. Clark and W. H. Thomson (Black).

PAUL NASH.

SWANAGE,
December, 1935.

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there falling back to the Purbeck Hills to Nine Barrows
Down and back again to the coast at Ballard Down,
which holds Swanage Bay, and so in a dwindling wall
to The Foreland and the monoliths of Studland.
The Chalks make up half of Dorset and constitute,
perhaps, the principal scene. Not only do they pro-
vide a lovely and varied coast, but their inner hills are
crowned by some of the most formidable earthworks
in the country. The greatest of these is Maiden
Castle above Dorchester.

Maiden Castle has been described as the largest
and most perfect earthwork in the world. To say it
is the finest in Dorset is, perhaps, enough, for in no
part of any country, I believe—not even in Wiltshire,
where Avebury stands—can be found so complete a
sequence of hill architecture. It begins where the
Ridgeway penetrates Dorset in the neighbourhood of
Cranborne Chase, through the gateway, as it were,
of two great earthworks, Hambledon Hill and Hod
Hill. From that region, to the furthest limits of the
country, is one vast record of megalithic occupation.
Wherever any considerable hill runs up, there is the
evidence of that great civilisation to which we owe
the temple of Avebury, the Silibury Pyramid and
the camp of Mai dun. The Maiden, as will be
seen from the aerial photograph (see opposite p. 9), is
in the form of an irregular oval. Its measurements
are 400 yards wide and 900 yards long. The outer
cumference amounts to two miles, enclosing an
area of 130 acres. It is a phenomenon which
must be seen to be believed if you consider that it
was constructed throughout a *series* of occupations,
the earliest of which can be ascribed to a period
approaching 2000 B.C. Its presence to-day, after the
immense passage of time, is miraculously undisturbed;
the huge contours strike awe into even the most vulgar
mind; the impervious nitwits who climbed on to the
monoliths of Stonehenge to be photographed, slink
out of the shadow of the Maiden uneasily.

But Maiden Castle, if it is the greatest of Dorset's
earthworks, is by no means the only one of importance.
South of Hambledon Hill, the Ridgeway throws off
a smaller track, which follows the direction of the Stour
towards Christchurch in Hampshire. Beyond Bland-
ford it strikes a significant eminence which has played
a lively part in early history, the fort of Badbury Rings.
This is another and, in appearance, later type of earth-
works, although its origin is probably Stone Age. It

is round rather than oval, and has the dread peculiarity
of a crown of dense trees planted in concentric circles.
I have read of enchanted places, and at rare times come
upon them, but I remember nothing so beautifully
haunted as the wood in Badbury Rings. Long after-
wards I read of the tradition that King Arthur's soul
inhabited a raven's body which nested there—indeed it
is one of the last nesting-places of the wild raven in
England—but I needed no artificial stimulus to be
impressed. Beyond the outer plateau the rings heave
up and round in waves 40 feet high. A magic bird in
a haunted wood, an ancient cliff washed by a sea
changed into earth. There is scarcely anything
lacking. ...

The earthworks of Purbeck and the West are less
romantic but more impressive architecturally. Flowers
Castle, on the down high above Worbarrow Bay, must
have been a perfect citadel until the falling cliff began
to drag it into the sea. But of all the many hill-camps
of central and west Dorset, Eggardon is the most
impressive and the most interesting. Like Maiden
Castle, it is of the true oval type and of a design at least
equally noble in intention. It shares with the Maiden,
and indeed with most of the Dorset earthworks, that
great virtue of being moulded to the hill, as if it was
built for joy of that habitation as well as for utilitarian
reasons.

There remain two strange and very moving monu-
ments to consider : the Valley at Chalbury and the
Giant of Cerne. To pass through Chalbury at twilight,
shut in by the ridged hills, seeing the long tombs cut
against the afterglow, is to experience an almost un-
nerving feeling of the latent force of the past. Chal-
bury is deserted to-day and seldom visited, but you
should turn off from the Weymouth Road at Preston
and explore that lost valley. The enormous hill-
drawing representing the Cerne Giant measures 180
feet in height. Probably it is contemporaneous with
the Long Man of Wilmington in Sussex, but hardly
of the same order of art as the White Horse on the
Berkshire Downs. Nevertheless it is a spirited design
of great character, very properly honoured and cherished
by the local people, who have successfully preserved
it from meddling fools and officious prudes for several
generations. It would have been interesting to compare
this characteristic white line drawing which I recorded,*
with the purely fortuitous linear patterns which occur

* Unfortunately suppressed.

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WOOLBRIDGE MANOR.

elsewhere. At Badbury Rings, for instance, where
hundreds of years of climbing up and down the slopes
have worn an amusing intricacy of white paths. Or
in another very different region, where the little sinuous
ways across broken heather make a calligraphy over
the dark Heath as livid as the pale gleam which sil-
houettes the features of Corfe.

The Clays account for about a quarter of the county's
area. That part most gentle and fertile, wherein lie
the great Vales—Marshwood Vale and the Vale of
Blackmore. It is a landscape utterly different from
the typical wild, rather sad grandeur of the Dorset
scene. It is the smiling aspect of the face, the gentle
voice of Barnes, the land of the rivers and the bridges;
the butter pastures and the lovely manor houses
Hammoon, Purse Caundle, Mappowder and Fontleroi.

The district of Marshwood Vale, which is watered
by the river Char, has a close affinity with Devonshire.
The herds of shorthorns give place to Devon reds.
In the villages the flint and brick changes again to
stone. The hedges are high and banks steep.
Charles II, who wandered about here with time on
his hands, said he had never seen a finer country in

England or out of it. Great pyramids of hills rise up
over the Vale, casting immense shadows over the green
fields. From Pilsden Pen, the highest hill in Dorset,
you may look down on a panorama never to be forgotten.
Yet in the history of the county it is this area which
seems most involved in turbulence, forever trampled
over by hopeless armies, or sheltering fugitive princes.
On Beaminster's lovely tower they hung the quarters
of Monmouth's poor rebels.

The country of the Blackmore Vale is of another
character. Although the region of Shaftesbury has a
look of Wiltshire about it, the central lands near the
Stour have strong individuality. The landscape is rich
and discreetly wooded, mapped out to a large design
giving a sense of ease, plenty and, above all, of detach-
ment and dignity. An aristocratic country, well
cared for and seeming conscious only of its own world.
The background of the "County," the hallowed
province of the Blackmore Vale Hunt.

The Sands give Dorset its desert, the fourth quarter
of its extent. The Great Heath is referred to in Domes-
day Book as Bruaria, a wilderness of heath, furze, briars

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7. BADBURY RINGS

GAZETTEER

Monument to George III., Weymouth.

INTRODUCTORY PREFACE
TO GAZETTEER

Jealous lovers of Dorset may be disappointed or
even outraged to discover the omission of certain
prominent places from the pictorial record of this
Gazetteer. The reason for their exclusion is just
that prominence or popularity which these places have
so long enjoyed. The policy explained in the Intro-
duction has been rigorously pursued in forming the
Gazetteer. But to the question, *Can this be found
elsewhere ?* has been added another, *Has this been over-

*looked?* Three instances will illustrate different aspects of this point of view. Wimborne Minster is a noble historical monument, not, however, architecturally distinctive. But how many holy interiors contain a thirteenth-century clock of such beauty and interest as that which can be seen at Wimborne? Dorchester is the capital of Dorset, an imposing, attractive town, planted with trees, venerable with history. So are many county towns, but how many live under the shadow of such a vast, primitive habitation as Maiden Castle? Or where in England is to be found a provincial museum of such extraordinary interest as that in Dorchester? These two stores of history are infinitely more worthy of attention. Here the parts, as it were, are greater than the whole. Lastly, Corfe Castle. Corfe Castle, as a spectacle, has been done to death. It is probably the finest example of a ruin we can show in England, and that is saying

much. How many people know how lovely it was as
a castle? How often is it regarded in relation to the
surrounding landscape? These aspects seem to me
not only interesting historically and geographically, but
aesthetically important.

The places of interest selected for the Gazetteer are divided into four sections. A principal town has been chosen as a pivot, and places within a radius of roughly eight miles form the northern, southern, eastern and western groups of all that seems most characteristic in the various localities. The numbers after the towns in the pages which follow refer to the squares on the map.

church. Look up at the curious carving of Virgin and Child and the beautiful golden vane. Powerful haunt of legends; the healing spring of St. Augustine at the end of a dark grove, and so on. But on the hill above the town the huge ancient design of the naked Giant, 180 ft. high, tends to diminish the importance of medievalism.

**Puddletown:** 6,13; Neat and gay little houses and cottages, white walls, and bright gardens on the street. One of the most interesting churches in Dorset. Well situated on rising ground. Many good gravestones, covered with incredible lichens. The bush yews are clipped into the form of chalices. Interior contains many distinguished features — slender brown stone pillars, lovely carved wood roof, font of very good simple Norman type, shaped as a tumbler glass decorated by vine trellis carving, and very fine Jaco-bean gallery. Here also is the Athelhampton chapel containing

effigies of the Martin family. The one illustrated is particularly beautiful, wrought in alabaster with tints of faded blue.

**Weymouth:** 9; Attractive eighteenth-century watering-place where George III. bathed to music. Now almost obliterated by various advertising devices or simply unsuitable painting. But Weymouth Harbour has a more permanent charm, and the great bay is seldom dull. Here ships of the Fleet are constantly in view. Their inevitable dignity and chilling mien give Weymouth a look of rather dubious frivolity. The surrounding country is of great beauty. A monster chalk cut of King George on horseback on the downs has certain comical distinction. Poxwell Manor is one of Dorset's architectural gems well restored.

**Portland:** 9; To pass on from Weymouth to Portland is to experience a transformation indeed. Magnifi-

cent drive on winding road from Chesiton to Easton. Very interesting eighteenth-century church with fantastic graves and monuments, Pennsylvania Castle, the home of the Penns, must be seen in its rocky dell of trees. A description of Portland occurs in the main article, but the island should be thoroughly explored, as both coast and interior are intensely interesting. Note the buildings, stone porches especially; the views from the heights are unequalled in Dorset.

**BEAMINSTER** (pronounced Bemister): 5; Market town of Marshwood Vale and centre of grazing country. A town of warm yellow stone buildings, sunny and kind, dominated by one of the greatest church towers in England. Of this town, in this place, it is approx-

An alabaster tomb in Athelhampton Chapel, Puddletown.

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Part of a Saxon font at Toller Fratrum, near Dorchester.

priate to quote from William Barnes a few lines which seem typical of his poetry, his attitude, and the Dorset tongue:

> "Sweet Be'mi'ster that bist abound
> Wi' hedges reachen up between
> A thousand' vields o' zummer green,
> Where elms lofty heads do show
> Their sheádes vor hay-meakers be-
> low,

> An wild hedge-flow'r's do charm
> the souls

> O maidens in their evenin' strolls,"

> Manor Houses in the Neighbourhood. Parnham House, Melpash, and Mapperton. Mapperton is one of the gems among Dorset manors, a lovely decorative building virtually unimpaired.

**Bridport:** 4; Gate to the West. A delightful town set back from a wide street of fine red-brick houses. Formerly had a busy life and considerable importance. The making of nets and ropes still goes on, and there is a slight coasting trade. The sea lies 2 m. distant at West Bay, which is being developed from a quiet watering-place into something different. On every side the country is magnificent. The coast rears up a shaggy orange cliff which slopes backwards in tumultuous downs, ribbed with dark hedge lines. Across the coast road, inland, downs continue ample movement, revealing many barrows and other earthworks in their course. Here and there sudden pyramids are thrown up—actually conical in

form and sometimes topped by clumps of trees.

**Charmouth:** 4; The second invitation to the West following Bridport. Enchanting village of pretty Regency houses with bow windows winking in the sun. Rather romantic in history. Between here and Lyme Regis several landlips have taken place, complicating the scenery very pleasantly. But main characteristics persist from here to Lyme rather heightened in beauty. Here the voice of Jane Austen should break in:

> "Charmouth with its high grounds and extensive sweeps of country, and, still more, its sweet retired bay, backed by dark cliffs, where fragments of low rock, among the sands make it the happiest spot for watching the flow of the tide; for sitting in unwearied contemplation."

These dark cliffs are mines of the most frightening fossils. Here Miss Mary Anning in 1811 discovered her gigantic reptile, Where the Char trickles into the sea strange bones have been found of elephants, rhinoceros. On the other hand, Charles II. missed his boat here in escaping to France, and Harriet Wilson wrote her memories. A place full of odd contrasts.

**Lyme Regis:** 4; The steep hill descending to the port of Lyme Regis reveals prettily built-up tiers of Regency villas looking out over business-like structures of the Cobb, with its beautiful lines and precarious footing, where Monmouth landed and Jane Austen's Louisa Musgrove tumbled. No one visiting Lyme must pass through without driving down to the Cobb, reached by a narrow road about ½ m. beyond the actual town. Lyme has an ancient history dating from 774, and has always been a place of interest, even of importance. If you are sensitive to haunts, here are many. Beyond everything, Lyme is a place of real distinction and charm, invaded but not yet spoilt by "development." Beyond lies Devon.

**Sherborne:** 3; Historic town on the northern border. Once the capital of Wessex. Two Saxon kings lie buried here. Both King Charles and Cromwell were present at its siege during the Civil War, and so on. Its very beautiful abbey is mainly Perpendicular, with roof of superb fan tracery encrusted with heraldic bosses and coats of arms in bright colours. The town itself

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The grass steps at Milton
Abbas.

considerable earthen walls on the east, north, and west, within whose compass the town seems to have shrunk together in course of time. The River Frome is navigable to Wareham. Red sails can be seen, sometimes, moving over the water meadows. The town has three churches left out of an original eight. So-called Saxon church romantically known as the Church on the Wall most interesting relic. Sad, dilapidated interior, reprehensively neglected.

**Arne:** 17: A very small hamlet lying north off the Corfe to Wareham road. A thirteenth-century chapel of miniature proportions stands on a knoll. A path beyond the village leads down the fields to the shores of Little Sea. Hereabouts may be found some of the finest views across the Heath to Corfe Castle, or towards Poole over the waters. On the other side of the main road at almost an opposite point lies the famous Blue Fool. This must be seen to be believed, and even then is not always credible.

**Bere Regis:** 13: Important ancient small town, identified by Stukelye as Ibernum. Lies centrally between Wareham, Blandford, and Dorchester. Character of present town unspilt. Church is one of the finest in Dorset. Outside the walls of flint, stone, and early brick are coated with grey and golden lichens. Inside is a beautiful, strange hammer-beam roof, bristling with gaunt painted figures and terminals of huge holy faces.

**Corfe Castle:** 17: Magnet of the Isle of Purbeck. From all sides people are drawn to this famous place. With good reason, for Corfe occupies unique position physically, and in spirit as a record of history. Corfe was twice the victim of treachery. Here the young King Edward was stabbed while being welcomed by his stepmother; here, during the Civil War, the Castle was betrayed to the Roundheads by the despicable Pitman after all attempts had failed to break Lady Bankes' defence. Its history in the main is a series of vile medieval cruelties, mostly to the credit of King John. Architecturally the Castle was and still is a place of

formidable beauty. Corfe village is a little too picturesque; the whole place has become a tourists' Mecca, but without diminishing the personality of Corfe Castle.

Adjacent village of simple beauty is Church Knowle, 2 m. W. Ex-quisite thirteenth-century cruciform church. Ancient Manor of Barneston, now a farm, period Edward III. Interesting circular stone stairway and good Tudor hall. Variously restored. Remains of Roman villa and many earthworks are found near here. Steeple with its beautiful group, church, manor, and cottages, Tynham's manor, Kimmeridge thatched cottages with their roadway gardens, are several delights.

**Lulworth:** 16: East Lulworth lies in the furthest westerly corner of Purbeck. Three miles beyond is Lulworth Cove, long famous as a beauty spot. It deserves all homage. A small circular bay shut in by steep cliffs, natural design of great beauty. The rock formation hereabouts, particularly Stair Hole, a chasm filled by the sea at high tide, is remarkable geologically. The coast contains many wonders:

An old print of Corfe Castle
as it was previous to the Civil
War.

the theatrical phenomenon Durdle Door, a natural arch of Purbeck limestone, and on a ledge of South Rocks the remains of a fossil forest. In an opening between Flowers Barrow and Bindon Down, built upon rising ground and set by beech clumps, appears Lulworth Castle, of distinguished history and considerable architectural individuality. In the castle grounds imported Italian workmen built the church, described by Fanny Burney as "a Pantheon in miniature," with altar of "variegated precious stones, glittering from every angle." The priceless Lutterel Psalter also is identified with Lulworth. No

place in Dorset contains so much interest within its area.

**Poole:** 17: Town of great character, almost obliterated by overcrowding and traffic in excess of street room. Best of the town lives in its byways and on the quay. Some fine eighteenth-century buildings, notably the Town Hall and the Customs House. Parish Church (1820) should be seen. A sailor's church pillars of pitch pine, good early nineteenth-century style throughout, a rare unmuddled specimen. Next door is a good museum with comprehensive collection of waterfowl and other wild birds. Poole Harbour is lively and beautiful. The history of the town is perhaps

Right: The Customs House
at Poole. Below: A figured
roof at Bere Regis.

more vivid than that of any other in the county.

**Studland:** 18: Once the rural gem of Purbeck, now quickly developing into a coastal suburb. Very attractive even so, many acres still undisturbed; the bay still quiet and lovely; the church and surroundings still protected from intrusion. Unspoit, intelligently restored Norman specimen of real interest in perfect setting of ancient yew trees. Studland Heath is referred to in the main article.

**Swanage:** 18: Perhaps the most beautiful natural site on the South Coast, ruined by two generations of "development" prosecuted without discrimination or scruple. Tragedy

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FLORA & FAUNA

By Archibald G. B. Russell, *Lancaster Herald*.

The anatomy of Dorset (and more particularly Purbeck) is of singular geological complexity. Hence the astounding variety and interest of its flora and fauna. From Chapman's Pool westward the Kimmeridge clay and the lias of Lyme Regis embosom a multitude of forms of prehistoric life, both animal and vegetable. The first place among monsters must be given to *Sclelidosaurus Harrisoni* (Title page), the most ancient armoured dinosaur known to science, and existing only in a single specimen from the lower lias, Charmouth. The skeleton is preserved at the British Museum, where an admirable reconstruction of the living beast is shown. Diverse species of *Plesiosaurus* and of *Ichthyosaurus* (including the formidable *platyodon*) of Dorset origin may also be seen there. There are some

strangely beautiful remains of an *Opthalmosaurus* which were until lately imbedded in the undercliff at Encombe and are now in the Dorchester Museum, which also holds the mosaic-like pattern of fishes (fly leaves). Swanage was once an abode of crocodiles and turtles. Tusks and teeth of mammoth and tooth of rhinoceros prove that these superb mammals once roamed in Dorset. The margin of a primæval "forest" emerges from the cliff at Lulworth.

To-day our reptiles are sadly diminished both in size and number of species. The rare smooth snake (*coronella austriaca austriaca*) is met with on heaths in company, as often, with the pretty green sand lizard (*lacerta agilis agilis*) with his dappled grey consort. On the chalk by the sea the males of Dorset adders

wear in youth a livery of black and white of unusual brilliance. There are grass snakes, too, often of some size, and slow-worms, and more than one species of newt and frog and toad, including the natter-jack toad.

Unfamiliar and interesting marine mammals and fishes have been recorded on the Dorset coast. Mr. R. I. Pocock, F.R.S., tells me that he noted lately a pair of killer whales in Lyme Bay. Captures are reported off the Chesil Beach of the fin whale, the blue shark, the thresher shark, the electric ray, the sun fish, the boar fish and the sea devil. Gaudily coloured

wrasse take the angler's bait at St. Aldhelm's Head, where good harvest of edible species may also be had with the line. Bass are caught with rod and line from the rocks. Mackerel and red mullet also frequent the coast. Chapman's Pool is noted for lobsters, and prawns may be captured in Studland Bay. Shell Bay at Studland is famed for the variety and beauty of the shells that are gathered there. In Dorset streams there are salmon and trout in abundance.

Conspicuous among mammals are foxes, which abound in the county, badgers, which are not un-

common at Rempstone and elsewhere, and otters, who are well known as rovers and may be encountered in any suitable locality. There are fallow deer as well as roe deer in fair numbers. In the case of the latter species it is probable that none of these engaging inhabitants of our woodlands are traceable to an aboriginal stock, but derive from individuals known to have been brought from Scotland to Milton Abbas in 1800. The herd of Japanese deer (*Sika nippon*) which haunts the woods around Poole harbour descends from forebears who reached the mainland by swimming from Branksea Island, where they were introduced in the nineteenth century. Among the de lights of Dorset must not be omitted that sweetest of all beasts, the red squirrel, who has hitherto escaped extermination by his grey American cousin. A fine breed of horned sheep is peculiar to Dorset.

Above: The head of an *Ichthyosaurus* in the Dorchester Museum.

Opposite: A pine hawk moth from the Russell Collection.

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When you go to an inn ask for English food. If you are given badly cooked so-called French food kick up a row.

Use your influence, short of committing sacrilege, to clear the simple and often beautiful interiors of country churches free from the cheap colour reproduction of sixth-rate religious paintings and other undignified rubbish occasionally to be found there.

Use your influence by writing or speaking against the frequent attempts on the part of jerry-builders and those bodies which attempt to absorb whole tracts of the open countryside for their more or less destructive activities.

Protest, if you live in a town, against all unnecessary spoliation of period buildings.

Give your support to any or all of the Societies mentioned in the dedication.

INDEX

<table><tr><td>Abbotsbury</td><td>15, 16, 22, 38, (plate)</td></tr><tr><td>Abbotsbury Hill</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>Affpuddle</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Agglestone Rock</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td>Agriculture in Dorset</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Athelhampton Chapel</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td>Athelhampton, manor</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Austen, Jane</td><td>9, 25</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Badbury Rings</td><td>10, 11, (plate)</td></tr><tr><td>Ballard Downs</td><td>10, 16, 17</td></tr><tr><td>Ballard Head</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td>Barnes, William</td><td>9, 11, 25</td></tr><tr><td>Barneston, ancient manor</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td>Bell Hill</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>Bere Regis</td><td>30, 31</td></tr><tr><td>Bindon Abbey</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td>Bindon Hill</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Binghams Melcombe Manor</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td>Blackmore Vale</td><td>11, 28</td></tr><tr><td>Blackmore Vale Hunt</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>Blandford</td><td>10, 26, 39</td></tr><tr><td>Blandford Church</td><td>27</td></tr><tr><td>Bloxworth</td><td>38, 39</td></tr><tr><td>Blue Pool, The</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td>Bradford Abbas</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Bradford Abbas Manor</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Branksea Castle</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td>Branksea Island (see Brownsea)</td><td>17, 37</td></tr><tr><td>Brewing Industry</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Brickmaking</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Bridport</td><td>15, 25, 34, 40</td></tr><tr><td>Broadmayne</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Browne, Capt. W. P. (M.F.H.)</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>Browsea Island</td><td>34, 35</td></tr><tr><td>Bulbarrow</td><td>9, 28</td></tr><tr><td>Butterflies</td><td>38, 39</td></tr><tr><td>Cattistock Hunt</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>Cerne Abbas</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Cerne, River</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Chalbury</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Chapman's Pool</td><td>16, 37, 39</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Char, River</td><td>11, 25</td></tr><tr><td>Charminster</td><td>22, 23</td></tr><tr><td>Charminster Bridge</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Charmouth</td><td>25, 36</td></tr><tr><td>Chesil Bank</td><td>9, 15, 16, (plate)</td></tr><tr><td>Chesil Beach</td><td>34, 37</td></tr><tr><td>Chesilton</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td>Childe Okeford</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td>China Clay Industry</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Church Knowle</td><td>30</td></tr><tr><td>Coast, The Sea</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td>Cobb, The</td><td>25, 35</td></tr><tr><td>Corfe</td><td>9, 11, 16, 21, 30</td></tr><tr><td>Corfe Castle</td><td>21, 30, 31, (plate)</td></tr><tr><td>Cranborne Chase</td><td>9, 10, 12, 26, 39</td></tr><tr><td>Culpepper's Dish</td><td>22</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Dancing Ledge</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Dewlish</td><td>20, 28</td></tr><tr><td>Dorchester</td><td>9, 10, 12, 21, 22</td></tr><tr><td>Dorchester, Earl of</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Dorset Language</td><td>41</td></tr><tr><td>Dunshay, manor</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td>Durdle Door</td><td>14, 16, 31</td></tr><tr><td>Durlston</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Durlston Head</td><td>17</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Easton</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td>Egdon Heath</td><td>12</td></tr><tr><td>Eggardon Hill</td><td>9, 10</td></tr><tr><td>Eldon, mansion</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Encombe</td><td>16, 36</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Farnham</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Ferry Tables</td><td>42, 43</td></tr><tr><td>Fishing</td><td>35</td></tr><tr><td>Fleet, The</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td>Flora and Fauna</td><td>36 to 39</td></tr><tr><td>Flowers Barrow</td><td>9, 31</td></tr><tr><td>Flowers Castle</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Fontleroi, manor</td><td>11, 26</td></tr><tr><td>Food</td><td>42</td></tr><tr><td>Ford Abbey</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Foreland, The</td><td>10</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Fossils</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td>Frome, River</td><td>16, 17, 30, 32, 35</td></tr><tr><td>Gad Cliff</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Geological Information</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td>Giant of Cerne, The</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Glanville's Wootton</td><td>39</td></tr><tr><td>Godlingstone, manor</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td>Godmanstone</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Golden Gap, The</td><td>15, 20</td></tr><tr><td>Golf Clubs, List of</td><td>35</td></tr><tr><td>Gulder, The</td><td>16</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Hambledon</td><td>9, 10</td></tr><tr><td>Hambledon Hill</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Hammoon Manor</td><td>11, 28, 29</td></tr><tr><td>Hanford House</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td>Hardy, Thomas</td><td>8, 9, 12, 32</td></tr><tr><td>Heath, The</td><td>11, 12, 13</td></tr><tr><td>Higginson, A. H., Esq. (M.F.H.)</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>High Stoy</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>Hinton St. Mary</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td>Hod Hill</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Holnest</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Holwell, manor</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Hunting</td><td>33</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Ibberton</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td>Ilchester, Lord</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Industries</td><td>40</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Ker Seymer, Family of</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td>Kimmeridge</td><td>16, 39, (plate)</td></tr><tr><td>Kimmeridge Clay</td><td>16, 20</td></tr><tr><td>Kimmeridge Coal Money</td><td>16, 17</td></tr><tr><td>Kimmeridge Ledges</td><td>16</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Llangton Herring</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td>Language, Dorset</td><td>41</td></tr><tr><td>Latner Grounds, The</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Lewesdon Hill</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>Little Bredy</td><td>22</td></tr></table>

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<table><tr><td>Little Sea</td><td>17, 30</td></tr><tr><td>Long Bredy</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Luckford Lake</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Lulworth</td><td>16, 30, 31, 36</td></tr><tr><td>Lulworth Castle</td><td>31</td></tr><tr><td>Lulworth Cove</td><td>13, 14, 30, 34</td></tr><tr><td>Lutterel Psalter, The</td><td>31</td></tr><tr><td>Lyme Bay</td><td>37</td></tr><tr><td>Lyme Regis</td><td>15, 20, 25, 26, 34, 36</td></tr></table>

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<table><tr><td>Maiden Castle, (plate, facing p.9)</td><td>9, 10, 22</td></tr><tr><td>Mapperton, manor</td><td>25</td></tr><tr><td>Mappowder, manor</td><td>11, 29</td></tr><tr><td>Marshwood Vale</td><td>11, 24, 42</td></tr><tr><td>Maumbury</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Melbury</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>Melbury Bubb</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Melflash, manor</td><td>25</td></tr><tr><td>Milton Abbas</td><td>26, 27</td></tr><tr><td>Milton Abbey</td><td>26, 28</td></tr><tr><td>Moreton</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Moths</td><td>39</td></tr></table>

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<table><tr><td>Nash Court</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td>Nine Barrows Down</td><td>10</td></tr></table>

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<table><tr><td>Okeford</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>Old Harry Rocks</td><td>17, 33, 43</td></tr></table>

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<table><tr><td>Parkstone Sailing Club</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td>Parnham House</td><td>25</td></tr><tr><td>Pennsylvania Castle</td><td>15, 24</td></tr><tr><td>Peveril Point</td><td>17</td></tr><tr><td>Piddle, River</td><td>17, 22</td></tr><tr><td>Pilsden Pen</td><td>9, 11</td></tr><tr><td>Pitt-Rivers Museum</td><td>26, 29</td></tr><tr><td>Poole</td><td>31, 34</td></tr><tr><td>Poole Harbour</td><td>17, 34, 35, 37, 38</td></tr><tr><td>Portisham</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Portland</td><td>9, 15, 24, 34, 39, 40, (plate)</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Portland, Duchess of</td><td>39</td></tr><tr><td>Portland Race</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td>Portland Roads</td><td>16, 34</td></tr><tr><td>Portland Sand</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td>Portland Stone</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td>Portman, Hon. Gerald (M.F.H.)</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>Portman Hunt</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>Poundbury</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Poxwell, manor</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td>Preston</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Puddletown</td><td>24</td></tr><tr><td>Pulpit Rock, The</td><td>15</td></tr><tr><td>Punknowle</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Purbeck</td><td>9, 10, 16, 17, 36, 38, 40</td></tr><tr><td>Purbeck Marble</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td>Purse Caundle, manor</td><td>11, 26</td></tr></table>

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<table><tr><td>Rempstone</td><td>37</td></tr><tr><td>Ridgeway, The</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Ropemaking</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Round Chimneys, manor</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Royal Dorset Yacht Club</td><td>34</td></tr><tr><td>Royal Motor Yacht Club</td><td>34</td></tr></table>

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<table><tr><td>Sailing</td><td>33, 34</td></tr><tr><td>St. Aldhelm's Head</td><td>15, 16, 20, 32, 37</td></tr><tr><td>St. Catherine's, Chapel of</td><td>15, 22, (plate)</td></tr><tr><td>Salisbury</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>Sandbanks</td><td>17, 42</td></tr><tr><td>Sandford Orcas, manor</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Sandsfoot</td><td>20</td></tr><tr><td>Scelidosaurus Harrisoni</td><td>3, 36</td></tr><tr><td>Shaftesbury</td><td>9, 11, 28</td></tr><tr><td>Shell Bay</td><td>17, 37, 42</td></tr><tr><td>Sherborne</td><td>25</td></tr><tr><td>Sherborne Castle</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>Sherborne School</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Silbury Pyramid</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>South Dorset Hunt</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>South Downs, The</td><td>9</td></tr><tr><td>Stair Hole</td><td>13, 16, 30</td></tr></table>

<table><tr><td>Stonehenge</td><td>10</td></tr><tr><td>Stone Quarries</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Stour, River</td><td>10, 11, 26, 28, 29</td></tr><tr><td>Stourton Caundle</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Studland</td><td>10, 12, 31, 33, 37, 39</td></tr><tr><td>Studland Church</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td>Sturminster Newton</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td>Sturminster Newton Bridge</td><td>28</td></tr><tr><td>Sutton, Lt.-Col. F. H. (M.F.H.)</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>Swallow Holes, The</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Swanage</td><td>10, 12, 31, 32, 34, 36, 38, 39, 43</td></tr><tr><td>Swyre Head</td><td>38</td></tr></table>

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<table><tr><td>Tilly Whim Caves</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Toller Fiatrium</td><td>22, 25</td></tr><tr><td>Tolpuddle, manor</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Trent, manor</td><td>26</td></tr><tr><td>Tyneham's, manor</td><td>30</td></tr></table>

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<table><tr><td>Wareham</td><td>29, 30</td></tr><tr><td>West Bay</td><td>25, 34</td></tr><tr><td>Weymouth</td><td>16, 21, 24, 34, 38</td></tr><tr><td>Whitecliff, manor</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td>Whitenore</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Wim, River</td><td>29</td></tr><tr><td>Wimborne</td><td>21, 29</td></tr><tr><td>Wimborne Minster</td><td>21, 28</td></tr><tr><td>Winford Eagle</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Wingfield Digby, Lt.-Col. F. J. (M.F.H.)</td><td>33</td></tr><tr><td>Winspit Cliff</td><td>16</td></tr><tr><td>Winspit Quarry</td><td>40</td></tr><tr><td>Winterbourne Anderson, manor</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Wolfeton House</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Woodsford Castle</td><td>22</td></tr><tr><td>Wool</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td>Wool Bridge</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td>Woolbridge, ancient manor</td><td>11, 32</td></tr><tr><td>Worbarrow Bay</td><td>10, 16</td></tr><tr><td>Worth Matravers</td><td>32</td></tr><tr><td>Wyke Farm, manor</td><td>26</td></tr></table>

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