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ISBN: 9781904434825

Eight Edition

208 pages in full colour

Published: 2009

Author: David Gerrard

 

The Hidden Places of Dorset, Hampshire & The Isle of Wight

Includes the New Forest

 UK £8.99

 

 

 

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The county of Dorset encompasses rolling chalk downs, dark heathland (so beloved of Thomas Hardy), the long ridge of the Purbeck Hills and an incomparable coastline with its wealth of magnificent rock formations sculptured by the sea.  Hampshire and the Isle of Wight offer the visitor a wonderful combination of seafaring tradition in the many coastal towns and villages as well as wonderful countryside epitomized by the New Forest and the rolling hills of northeast Hampshire.  The cover incorporates an eye-catching photograph of the village Milton Abbas in Dorset.

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Warblinghton

Little survives of this originally Saxon village save the ruins of a 16th century castle and the Church of St. Thomas a Becket, with its little tower and timbered spire.  The church also has some Roman bricks, Saxon archways, medieval floor tiles and, the the churchyard, a pair of stone grave-watchers' huts.  From these huts men could guard the graves from body-snatchers - the group of criminals who took bodies from newly dug graves and sold them as cadavers to teaching hospitals before the practice was officially outlawed by the Anatomy Act of 1832.

 

Maiden Castle

One of the most impressive prehistoric sites in the country, Maiden Castle is a vast and spectacular fortification, covering nearly 50 acres, which dates back to Neolithic times some 4,000 years ago.  It's steep earth ramparts, between 60 and 90 feet high; are nearly 2 miles round and, together with the inner walls, make a total of five miles of defences.  The settlement flourished for 2,000 years, until AD$$, when a Roman force led by Vespasian defeated the community.  This was the army of the 2nd Augustan Legion, which, in total overcame two tribes, 20 towns and the Isle of Wight.

 
 

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