Our Drive
down to Wolverton Gatehouse via Shaftesbury |

Map
of my Geotags taken on my new Nikon compact |

Shaftesbury's main Square
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Which way to go? |

A
reminder of Gold Hill's moment of glory in the Hovis Advert |

St
Peter's Church |

Shaftesbury Town Hall |

Suspicious |

King Alfred's Kitchen |

Helen on Gold Hill |

The
Mitre, for our lunch |

The
start of Gold Hill |
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Illustrated bench |

Looking back up Gold Hill |

Gold
Hill, with a misty background |

Gold
Hill Museum |

Shaftesbury Monastery wall |

The Monastery door |

The Grosvenor Hotel, the family once owned
Shaftesbury |

Teddy bear Corner |

"Over the top" shop |

The
Ship Inn |

A
Polish Shop |
A
Your door number? |

Mr Punch's Market |

Wolverton Gatehouse where we stayed |

Looking through the arch |

The main House entrance a "Stately home"
closed in November |
Osmington
and Osmington Mill |
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Our
Sitting room |

Our
bedroom |

Our
bathroom |

Wolverton House |

Too
much contrast in this photo! |

Morning sunshine |

The
spiral staircase |

Osmington |

Osmington 2 |

Osmington 3 |

An
Ammonite on a house |

The
Beehive cottage |

A
straw bee on the roof |

Another view |

Panorama from the top of a very steep slippery walk. A stick helped the
walk down! |

George III portrayed in a chalk memorial |

A wind
vain |

Bakehouse conversion |

Periscope? |

Weymouth across the bay |

A
Kestrel hovers |
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Weymouth |

Towards Portland Harbour |

Minesweeper M3, much enlarged, offshore |

Osmington Mill coastline |

The
Smugglers Inn |
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Portland Bill on the Horizon |

The
Wolverton Gatehouse location |
Weymouth and Chesil Beach |

Weymouth Car
Park Street Art |

Carved supporters |

The
Golden Lion |
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The
Harbour |

A
Trawler |

The
Quay opposite |

The
Old Fish Market |

Central Street |
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Mums
on the beach |

A
Promenade Shelter |

Dog
Bar |

The
"Duke of Cornwall" has seen better days |

A
tatty crow |

Weymouth Beach |

The
flags were out |

A
Blue Glove |

"The
Ship", our lunch stop where I had crab, which may have had dangerous
results |

Clean Glasses |

Narrow houses |

Georgian houses |

Sun
balcony |

Poorer houses |
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The
bridge on to Chesil Beach |

Carved wooden Cormorant |

Shingle on the beach |

An
Evening stroll |

Sky
scape |

A
Fisherman |

The
Chesil Beach Visitor Centre |

A
Boat? |

Mud
flats |

Towards Weymouth |

Abbotsbury |
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Main street
Abbotsbury |
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Barn
Conversion we parked outside |

Illchester Arms pub in the centre |

Inside for lunch |

Jester decor |

Waiter sign |

Three rods |

Waves |

Looking West |

Weymouth Area |
Portland Bill |

Towards the Bay and Portland Harbour |

Cliffs at Portland Bill |

A
Crow |

The
main Lighthouse |

Pulpit Rock |

A
Cuddle |

Quarry remains? |

Trinity House Marker |

Smoke rings cloud? |

Sunset |

A
redundant Lighthouse |

A Boat
Launching crane |

Trippers go off home |

Rufus Castle above Church Ope Cove |

Rufus Castle gate |

Church Ope Cove |

A
Pavement with fossils |

Easton village |

Church Ope Cove Boulders |

Portland Museum, shut |

A Cleft in the rock below Rufus Castle |

Houses Easton |

Cyclists stopped by flood on old railway track |

In the Evening |
Cern Abbas |
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A
Drinking trough |

Wolverton Stables |

A
Machine |
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A Chimney early morning |

The
Smith's Arms, Godmanstone |
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The
"Smallest pub in England" (closed) |

The Mill, Godmanstone |

Holy Trinity Norman Church. Godmanstone |

The Original door |

West Window |

The "Giant" Cerne Abbas |

Workmen run for cover from photos |

Local Vernacular buildings Cerne Abbas |
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"The Giant", every other building had been a pub |

The New Inn |

The Old Gaol cottage |

A Tudor building |

The river acts a moat |

Dorset Beauty House |

Complex pipes |

Cerne Abbas Main Street |

New Inn Yard |
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The Sun Insurance Fire Mark |

St Mary the Virgin |

An Oriel Window |

Abbey Street houses built 1500 |
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The Abbey |

Autumn colour |

Abbey Houses |

Their Barn |

The Abbots Gatehouse, the wall around the Abbey has gone |

Abbey Farm |

The Duck Pond |

Abbey Street corner |

Doves |

Matthew at leisure |
The Hardy Memorial
and Abbotsbury Sub tropical Garden |
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"Kiss me Hardy" |
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Black Down |

The road ahead |

Sheep |

Looking East |

Abbotsbury Sub Tropical Garden |

Wet Cafe Table |
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St Catherine's Chapel glimpsed |

Tree
ferns |
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St Catherine's Chapel |

Malaysian Rope Bridge |
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Eastern Garden house |
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The "Colonial Restaurant" |

Veranda |

Chinaman |

Cafe Lights |
Dorchester |
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Map of Dorchester |

The author Hardy's statue |
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We followed the "Walks" (see left), which follow the old city
walls, towards the Roman Town House, above |

Mosaic Floor |

Heating System |
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Judge Jeffereys Lodgings |

Church, High Street West |

William Barnes, dialect poet |

Dorset County Museum |

The Royal Oak |

The Antelope (Redeveloped) The Information office was at
the far end of the alley |
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House of the Mayor of Casterbridge |

Tutankhamun Exhibition |

An ornate Barbers' sign |

Start of Antelope passage |

The Oak Room where Judge Jeffereys held his trials and we
had coffee, not at the same time |

His portrait from the far wall |
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Models outside the Dinosaur Museum |

Mary Anning pioneer fossil hunter |

Richard Owen, pioneer in Palaeontology |

Mastodon Skull |

Dorset Martyrs by Elizabeth Frick |

Car parks in Dorchester |

An original Victorian design Post Box |

Shopping Arcade |

In the Potters Cafe, Durngate Stree,t for our lunch
where I was taken ill |
Sherborne and then
Home |
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Matthew leads on |

An
old Inn redeveloped |

The monthly Farmers Market |

Fussels |

"Dorset Shell Fish" |
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To Sherborne Museum entrance beneath the arch, previously
used for hanging criminals |

Gerald Pitman, a founder of the Museum |

A grumpy Carpenter |

Edwardian? |

Picture of the siege of Sherborne Castle |

Sherborne Abbey in the rain |

Famous Fan Vaulting |
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Now
raining hard! |

Helen's Geotags |