Our Drive
down to Wolverton Gatehouse via Shaftesbury |
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Map
of my Geotags taken on my new Nikon compact |
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Shaftesbury's main Square
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Which way to go? |
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A
reminder of Gold Hill's moment of glory in the Hovis Advert |
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St
Peter's Church |
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Shaftesbury Town Hall |
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Suspicious |
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King Alfred's Kitchen |
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Helen on Gold Hill |
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The
Mitre, for our lunch |
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The
start of Gold Hill |
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Illustrated bench |
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Looking back up Gold Hill |
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Gold
Hill, with a misty background |
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Gold
Hill Museum |
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Shaftesbury Monastery wall |
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The Monastery door |
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The Grosvenor Hotel, the family once owned
Shaftesbury |
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Teddy bear Corner |
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"Over the top" shop |
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The
Ship Inn |
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A
Polish Shop |
A
Your door number? |
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Mr Punch's Market |
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Wolverton Gatehouse where we stayed |
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Looking through the arch |
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The main House entrance a "Stately home"
closed in November |
Osmington
and Osmington Mill |
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Our
Sitting room |
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Our
bedroom |
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Our
bathroom |
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Wolverton House |
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Too
much contrast in this photo! |
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Morning sunshine |
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The
spiral staircase |
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Osmington |
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Osmington 2 |
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Osmington 3 |
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An
Ammonite on a house |
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The
Beehive cottage |
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A
straw bee on the roof |
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Another view |
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Panorama from the top of a very steep slippery walk. A stick helped the
walk down! |
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George III portrayed in a chalk memorial |
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A wind
vain |
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Bakehouse conversion |
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Periscope? |
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Weymouth across the bay |
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A
Kestrel hovers |
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Weymouth |
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Towards Portland Harbour |
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Minesweeper M3, much enlarged, offshore |
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Osmington Mill coastline |
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The
Smugglers Inn |
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Portland Bill on the Horizon |
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The
Wolverton Gatehouse location |
Weymouth and Chesil Beach |
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Weymouth Car
Park Street Art |
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Carved supporters |
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The
Golden Lion |
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The
Harbour |
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A
Trawler |
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The
Quay opposite |
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The
Old Fish Market |
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Central Street |
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Mums
on the beach |
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A
Promenade Shelter |
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Dog
Bar |
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The
"Duke of Cornwall" has seen better days |
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A
tatty crow |
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Weymouth Beach |
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The
flags were out |
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A
Blue Glove |
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"The
Ship", our lunch stop where I had crab, which may have had dangerous
results |
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Clean Glasses |
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Narrow houses |
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Georgian houses |
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Sun
balcony |
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Poorer houses |
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The
bridge on to Chesil Beach |
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Carved wooden Cormorant |
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Shingle on the beach |
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An
Evening stroll |
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Sky
scape |
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A
Fisherman |
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The
Chesil Beach Visitor Centre |
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A
Boat? |
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Mud
flats |
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Towards Weymouth |
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Abbotsbury |
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Main street
Abbotsbury |
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Barn
Conversion we parked outside |
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Illchester Arms pub in the centre |
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Inside for lunch |
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Jester decor |
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Waiter sign |
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Three rods |
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Waves |
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Looking West |
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Weymouth Area |
Portland Bill |
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Towards the Bay and Portland Harbour |
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Cliffs at Portland Bill |
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A
Crow |
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The
main Lighthouse |
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Pulpit Rock |
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A
Cuddle |
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Quarry remains? |
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Trinity House Marker |
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Smoke rings cloud? |
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Sunset |
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A
redundant Lighthouse |
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A Boat
Launching crane |
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Trippers go off home |
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Rufus Castle above Church Ope Cove |
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Rufus Castle gate |
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Church Ope Cove |
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A
Pavement with fossils |
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Easton village |
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Church Ope Cove Boulders |
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Portland Museum, shut |
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A Cleft in the rock below Rufus Castle |
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Houses Easton |
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Cyclists stopped by flood on old railway track |
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In the Evening |
Cern Abbas |
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A
Drinking trough |
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Wolverton Stables |
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A
Machine |
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A Chimney early morning |
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The
Smith's Arms, Godmanstone |
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The
"Smallest pub in England" (closed) |
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The Mill, Godmanstone |
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Holy Trinity Norman Church. Godmanstone |
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The Original door |
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West Window |
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The "Giant" Cerne Abbas |
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Workmen run for cover from photos |
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Local Vernacular buildings Cerne Abbas |
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"The Giant", every other building had been a pub |
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The New Inn |
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The Old Gaol cottage |
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A Tudor building |
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The river acts a moat |
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Dorset Beauty House |
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Complex pipes |
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Cerne Abbas Main Street |
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New Inn Yard |
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The Sun Insurance Fire Mark |
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St Mary the Virgin |
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An Oriel Window |
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Abbey Street houses built 1500 |
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The Abbey |
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Autumn colour |
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Abbey Houses |
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Their Barn |
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The Abbots Gatehouse, the wall around the Abbey has gone |
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Abbey Farm |
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The Duck Pond |
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Abbey Street corner |
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Doves |
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Matthew at leisure |
The Hardy Memorial
and Abbotsbury Sub tropical Garden |
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"Kiss me Hardy" |
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Black Down |
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The road ahead |
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Sheep |
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Looking East |
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Abbotsbury Sub Tropical Garden |
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Wet Cafe Table |
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St Catherine's Chapel glimpsed |
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Tree
ferns |
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St Catherine's Chapel |
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Malaysian Rope Bridge |
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Eastern Garden house |
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The "Colonial Restaurant" |
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Veranda |
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Chinaman |
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Cafe Lights |
Dorchester |
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Map of Dorchester |
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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 |
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Mosaic Floor |
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Heating System |
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Judge Jeffereys Lodgings |
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Church, High Street West |
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William Barnes, dialect poet |
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Dorset County Museum |
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The Royal Oak |
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The Antelope (Redeveloped) The Information office was at
the far end of the alley |
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House of the Mayor of Casterbridge |
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Tutankhamun Exhibition |
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An ornate Barbers' sign |
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Start of Antelope passage |
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The Oak Room where Judge Jeffereys held his trials and we
had coffee, not at the same time |
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His portrait from the far wall |
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Models outside the Dinosaur Museum |
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Mary Anning pioneer fossil hunter |
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Richard Owen, pioneer in Palaeontology |
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Mastodon Skull |
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Dorset Martyrs by Elizabeth Frick |
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Car parks in Dorchester |
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An original Victorian design Post Box |
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Shopping Arcade |
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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 |
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An
old Inn redeveloped |
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The monthly Farmers Market |
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Fussels |
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"Dorset Shell Fish" |
T
To Sherborne Museum entrance beneath the arch, previously
used for hanging criminals |
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Gerald Pitman, a founder of the Museum |
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A grumpy Carpenter |
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Edwardian? |
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Picture of the siege of Sherborne Castle |
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Sherborne Abbey in the rain |
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Famous Fan Vaulting |
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Now
raining hard! |
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Helen's Geotags |