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- In the footsteps of Treves: Charlton Marshall, Spetisbury, Sturminster Marshall
December ’14 - Just who was Sir Frederick Treves?
December ’14 - Why I love Westbourne
December ’14 - The literary giant of Cerne Abbas
December ’14 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the redpoll
December ’14 - Dorset lives – Anna del Conte
December ’14 - Dorset’s aerial hero – William Rhodes Moorhouse
December ’14 - Treasures of Dorset – Knowlton: Church & Henge
December ’14 - Obelisk & Cleopatra – Kingston Lacy’s Philae obelisk
December ’14 - The ghosts of businesses past
December ’14 - Reflections on a year: ‘…Amid the furze and copses’
December ’14 - A poem for winter: The Vrost
December ’14 - A Dorset life for me
December ’14 - Drawn to the coast
November ’14 - Shillingstone: A photo essay
November ’14 - Ferndown’s top bog
November ’14 - Raiders!
November ’14 - Langton Herring
November ’14 - Belmont: from show-home to holiday home
November ’14 - Dorset villages: The Chalkland valleys
November ’14 - Down my way: Tyneham Sketchbook
November ’14 - The Dorset walk – 1 Folke and Sherborne Park
November ’14 - Dorset walk – 2 Cranborne
November ’14 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – November
November ’14 - By the community, for the community
November ’14 - Jess of the dairy fields: sloe gin
November ’14 - The heights of Dorset
October ’14 - Netherbury
October ’14 - Muddlecombe Mayhem
October ’14 - Woodsford Castle
October ’14 - Christchurch Castle & Hall
October ’14 - Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – southern hawker
October ’14 - Village shops: ‘Like Chocolat…, but better’
October ’14 - Ironmaster to wildlife – the Canford Estate
October ’14 - Living treasure of Dorset, Gail McGarva, traditional wooden boat builder
October ’14 - The Dorset Life Walk – Melcombe Bingham
October ’14 - The Dorset Life Walk – Portesham, Rodden and Waddon
October ’14 - Cheese, pigs and vodka
October ’14 - The Dorset Walk – Bridport
September ’14 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – September
September ’14 - Thomas Hardy, Toucans and Ice-Cream
September ’14 - Treasures of Dorset: The Cobb at Lyme Regis
September ’14 - The Dorset Walk/Cycle Ride – Wareham Forest and Woolsbarrow Fort
September ’14 - Dorset groups: We’re like gardeners, we love to share our knowledge
September ’14 - b-Side: It’s not just the seaside
September ’14 - Dorset Artist: The Delight is in the Detail
September ’14 - Jess of the dairy fields
September ’14 - Dorset’s red foxes
September ’14 - From Roy of the Rovers to World War 1 – Joe Colquhoun
September ’14 - A Gothic Tale…with a happy ending
September ’14 - In the footsteps of Treves: Bere Regis, Morden and Bloxworth
September ’14 - Dorset Garden: The Old Vicarage, East Orchard
September ’14 - Hengistbury Head & Mudeford Spit
August ’14 - Cerne Abbas – a photo essay
August ’14 - ‘Someone screamed “Down!” – the Bourne Valley gasworks bombing
August ’14 - An interesting quirkiness – Purbeck House
August ’14 - Above us only sky? – Blandford Forum
August ’14 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Peacock butterfly
August ’14 - Dorset Villages: East Dorset
August ’14 - Down my way – Dorset Buttons
August ’14 - A huge potential for growth: Portland Port
August ’14 - The Dorset walk 1 – Broadmayne, Whitcombe, West Knighton
August ’14 - The Dorset walk 2 – Bride Valley – Littlebredy
August ’14 - A taste of Dorset – From Dorset with love
August ’14 - A Dorset life for me
August ’14 - Dorset’s Jurassic coast
July ’14 - Dorset gardens: Marren, Holworth
July ’14 - What is M B of the B of D?
July ’14 - Dorset village walk: Compton Abbas
July ’14 - Stronger together: Wimborne Tourist Information Centre
July ’14 - Just where is medieval Shaftesbury?
July ’14 - Living Treasures of Dorset: Ivor Charles – retired fisherman
July ’14 - Lock, stock and barrel
July ’14 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – spotted flycatcher and chick
July ’14 - The Dorset walk 1 – Drimpton and Burstock
July ’14 - The Dorset walk 2 – Godlingston Heath
July ’14 - Dorset Opera forty years on
July ’14 - Jess of the diary fields
July ’14 - Desperate Remedies
June ’14 - Mapperton
June ’14 - In the footsteps of Treves: Chettle, Sixpenny Handley and Pentridge
June ’14 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the stoat
June ’14 - All the Victorian fun of the fayre
June ’14 - Why I love Christchurch: ‘Why would you live anywhere else?’
June ’14 - The Dorset walk 1 – Lyme Regis and Charmouth
June ’14 - The Dorset walk 2 – North Dorset Trailway
June ’14 - Treasure of Dorset – Golden Cap
June ’14 - Building happy memories – Julia’s House
June ’14 - A new Roman villa for Dorset
June ’14 - Bringing the war memorial to life – Stalbridge
June ’14 - A Dorset life for me
June ’14 - Butterflies in Dorset
May ’14 - Dorset Garden: Cottesmore Farm, West Moors
May ’14 - Sturminster Newton: Surviving the storm
May ’14 - Dewlish: A village photo essay
May ’14 - Bryanston School: An individual approach
May ’14 - Dorset’s villages: from the coast to the Marshwood Vale
May ’14 - Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – herring gull
May ’14 - Down my way: Thomas Hardy and Martha Brown
May ’14 - Dorset walk 1 – Bournemouth, Westbourne & the Chines
May ’14 - The Dorset walk: Durlston and Dancing Ledge
May ’14 - Wessex Morris Men: The sight and sound of summer
May ’14 - Ruby in the west – Bridport Arts Centre
May ’14 - Jess of the dairy fields
May ’14 - Dorset’s Jurassic Coast – Worbarrow to Abbotsbury
April ’14 - Church Knowle ‘A lovable little place’
April ’14 - An eventful life – William Fox-Pitt
April ’14 - Bournemouth by the numbers
April ’14 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the brown hare
April ’14 - A Passion for Poole
April ’14 - Boat building: An old craft, a new beginning
April ’14 - Upton House – some council house!
April ’14 - Living Treasures of Dorset – Hayley Foy, Farrier
April ’14 - The Dorset Walk 1 – Spetisbury Rings, the S&D and Tarrant Abbey
April ’14 - The Dorset Walk 2 – Chedington & Winyard’s Gap
April ’14 - Sherborne Castle Estates – Much more than a castle with gardens
April ’14 - Arts within the reach of all – Artsreach
April ’14 - A Dorset life for me
April ’14 - Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
March ’14 - A well-oiled machine
March ’14 - Giving Dorset: Help from on high
March ’14 - Wimborne… not so Ancient and Modern
March ’14 - Dorset Garden: Braddocks, Oxbridge
March ’14 - Four ‘Puddles’ – Lower Piddle Valley
March ’14 - Just before D-Day
March ’14 - Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – the dipper
March ’14 - Treasures of Dorset: Old Harry Rocks
March ’14 - Representing the Crown in Dorset – Angus Campbell
March ’14 - Stronger Together – The Dorchester Area Schools Partnership
March ’14 - Stalbridge and Stalbridge Weston walk
March ’14 - Portland – Three Lighthouses Walk
March ’14 - Jess of the dairy fields
March ’14 - Dorset as you’ve never seen it
February ’14 - New Forest Choirs
February ’14 - Fish gotta swim – Weymouth Sea Life Adventure Park
February ’14 - A new start, a final stop
February ’14 - There’s no place like home – affordable homes in Dorset
February ’14 - In the best possible taste -the Guild of Fine Food
February ’14 - The home of life-saving
February ’14 - Purbeck and South Dorset
February ’14 - Swalland Farm: danger UXB
February ’14 - Sandford Orcas
February ’14 - Defoe in Dorset
February ’14 - Our iron-clad legacy
January ’14 - Dorset’s Jurassic Coast – Old Harry to Gad Cliff
January ’14 - A modern tradition – St Mary’s School, Shaftesbury
January ’14 - Clive Hannay’s village walk – Worth Matravers
January ’14 - Verdant and varied – Bournemouth gardens
January ’14 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – heron
January ’14 - Dorset’s McGonagall – Cumberland Clark
January ’14 - Living treasures of Dorset: Dick Dalley, retired swanherd
January ’14 - The Dorset drive: The valleys of the West and the scenic coast road
January ’14 - Wareham then and now in pictures
January ’14 - Life’s a beach – Dorset artist Colin Willey
January ’14 - A taste of Dorset: From a great waste to a great taste
January ’14 - Jess of the dairy fields
January ’14 - Reflections on Dorset
December ’13 - Fighting for Tyneham
December ’13 - 100 years at the heart of Stur
December ’13 - From grammar school boy to Cockney Rebel
December ’13 - In the Footsteps of Treves: Bridport and West Bay
December ’13 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Robin
December ’13 - ‘Not in the business of hobby farming…’
December ’13 - A house frozen in time
December ’13 - Treasures of Dorset: The Beech Avenue, Kingston Lacy
December ’13 - ‘A house after my own heart’
December ’13 - Walford Mill Crafts
December ’13 - A Dorset life for me
December ’13 - Dorset: land of mists
November ’13 - Wool: a photo essay
November ’13 - Hanging by a thread – Beaminster museum
November ’13 - Dorset groups: The Dorset Youth Association
November ’13 - A healthy future for Blandford
November ’13 - ‘Beautifully turned artificial hills’
November ’13 - Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – the otter
November ’13 - A fair legacy of landmarks – Verwood
November ’13 - Down my way: The Throop/Holdenhurst gas lamps
November ’13 - The Dorset walk: 1 – Langton Herring and Moonfleet
November ’13 - The Dorset walk: 2 – Wynford Eagle to Toller Fratrum
November ’13 - A taste of Dorset: Chrissie and the chocolate factory
November ’13 - Jess of the dairy fields
November ’13 - Living treasures of Dorset: Margaret Ralph, game dealer
October ’13 - Dorset Life investigates: Superfast rural broadband: a pipedream?
October ’13 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – October
October ’13 - Why I love Sherborne: ‘The quintessential English town’
October ’13 - Close-up Dorset – insects
October ’13 - The Dorset walk 1: Gunville Down and Stubhampton
October ’13 - The Dorset walk 2 – Osmington Mills
October ’13 - Dorset village walk: East Lulworth
October ’13 - ‘A champion of the port of Poole’
October ’13 - A Dorset life for me: Beatlemania in Bournemouth
October ’13 - The lost buildings of Lyscombe
October ’13 - Rex, camera, Durlston! – Purbeck Film Festival
October ’13 - From ‘at risk’ to ‘at the heart of Bridport’
October ’13 - Dorset houses: ‘Where the dead feet walked in’
October ’13 - A taste of Dorset: Putting the sparkle into West Dorset
September ’13 - Lawn of dreams
September ’13 - Treasures of Dorset: Gold Hill
September ’13 - The Royal Signals Museum
September ’13 - Dorset walk: Worth Matravers, Winspit and St Aldhelm’s Head
September ’13 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – September
September ’13 - Studland: a photo essay
September ’13 - Dorset Walk: Christchurch
September ’13 - To the west of Shaftesbury – in the footsteps of Treves
September ’13 - Dorset garden: The Old Rectory, Manston
September ’13 - Dating a difficult building in Dorchester
September ’13 - Aces Low – Bournemouth’s flying races
September ’13 - Jess of the dairy fields
September ’13 - Bridport Hat Festival
September ’13 - Shaftesbury: best thing since sliced bread
August ’13 - Feather and fur
August ’13 - A Dorset life for me
August ’13 - Symondsbury – a photo essay
August ’13 - From Oshkosh to Swanage
August ’13 - Down my way: Big Country’s journey in Purbeck
August ’13 - Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – The soldier beetle
August ’13 - Dorset artist: The living landscape
August ’13 - Monastery, showpiece, family home
August ’13 - Success with a Cherry on top
August ’13 - Behind the scenes: The Red House Museum and Gardens
August ’13 - The Dorset Walk: Middlebere and Wytch Heaths
August ’13 - Dorset walk: Tyneham and Worbarrow
August ’13 - Hardy’s places in pictures: The Hand of Ethelberta
July ’13 - Fordington: a short walk
July ’13 - The Dorset walk: Sandford Orcas and the Somerset border
July ’13 - Dorset garden: Little Bindon Abbey
July ’13 - Living treasures of Dorset: Pete Moors, hurdle maker
July ’13 - Frampton – hero or villain?
July ’13 - ‘Finer than Salisbury Cathedral’ – Sherborne Abbey
July ’13 - Praised in Paris…. Made in Dorset: Farrow & Ball
July ’13 - Wild about information – artist and illustrator Paul Matthews
July ’13 - Daniel Defoe’s Dorset: Weymouth to Abbotsbury
July ’13 - Chideock and Seatown
July ’13 - Jess of the dairy fields
July ’13 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Grass snake
July ’13 - Bridport, home is where the art is
June ’13 - More than a blue flash – kingfishers in Dorset
June ’13 - A Dorset life for me: Dorset’s female Pope
June ’13 - CSI Bournemouth
June ’13 - A complete jumble – Wolfeton
June ’13 - Curiosities of Sturminster Newton
June ’13 - Colin Varndell’s wildlife year – the four-spotted chaser
June ’13 - Ferry nice indeed
June ’13 - Bats in the bell-cote – St Andrew’s, Winterborne Tomson
June ’13 - A short history of water – mains water to Beaminster
June ’13 - Dorset walk: Ringstead and South Down
June ’13 - In the footsteps of Treves: Maiden Newton and Piddletrentide
June ’13 - The Dorset walk: Knighton Heath, Winfrith Newburgh and Winfrith Heath
June ’13 - Jess of the dairy fields
May ’13 - The Dorset walk: The Frome and Sydling valleys
May ’13 - Dorset Villages: Chetnole
May ’13 - Dorset’s Darwin – Alfred Russel Wallace
May ’13 - Dorset’s mills
May ’13 - Treasures of Dorset: Lulworth Cove
May ’13 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the marsh frog
May ’13 - Paul Nash and the Blue Pool
May ’13 - Flowers, fish and traditions
May ’13 - For those in peril…
May ’13 - The hunters of Dorset
May ’13 - A lifetime of service to Gillingham – Tony Coombes
May ’13 - Dorset Garden: Old Down Farm, Horton
May ’13 - Wimborne’s Minster explored
April ’13 - A Dorset Life for me
April ’13 - Clive Hannay – Trent
April ’13 - Down my way: The Roman aqueduct at Dorchester
April ’13 - The Dorset Walk: Woodlands, Horton Tower and Chalbury
April ’13 - Man of Poole – Bernard Dyer
April ’13 - A minute of intense devastation – Bournemouth’s bloodiest air raid
April ’13 - Robert Boyle of Stalbridge Park
April ’13 - A monster of an idea – The Gruffalo Trail
April ’13 - Spring in Dorset
April ’13 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the barn owl
April ’13 - Neither Thelwell nor Mallory Towers
April ’13 - The wild world on display – Arne
April ’13 - In the footsteps of Treves – Beaminster and Mapperton
March ’13 - Dorset lives: Kirill Karabits
March ’13 - Curiosities of Lyme Regis
March ’13 - Glass of Haig
March ’13 - Dorset Gardens: Pyes Plot, Netherbury
March ’13 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – March
March ’13 - Dorset’s four-winged predators
March ’13 - Mummies and Teddies – Dorchester’s museums
March ’13 - Treasures of Dorset: Corfe Castle
March ’13 - Verwood then and now
March ’13 - Jess of the dairy fields
March ’13 - The Dorset Walk: Tolpuddle, Briantspuddle and Turners Puddle
March ’13 - Flour of Dorset – Stoate’s flour
March ’13 - Nesta of the forest: Bournemouth’s witch
March ’13 - A lot o’ pottery
February ’13 - A Dorset life for me
February ’13 - The Geology of Dorset: the Quaternary period
February ’13 - Down my way: Charlton Marshall Halt
February ’13 - The one-hit wonder of ‘Wareham’ – William Knapp
February ’13 - A life in music – Em Marshall-Luck
February ’13 - Dorset thatch
February ’13 - Dorset and the English Crown – 1066 to 1688
February ’13 - A workhouse incident – Cerne Abbas
February ’13 - Swinging Bournemouth
February ’13 - Ferndown’s lasting legacy – the John Thornton Young Achievers Foundation
February ’13 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Hazel catkins
February ’13 - Rivers, streams and lakes – flora and fauna in Dorset’s rivers
February ’13 - Dorset’s winter wildlife
January ’13 - A life less ordinary
January ’13 - The Great Gale of 1824
January ’13 - Jess of the dairy fields
January ’13 - Not your usual MP
January ’13 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the starling
January ’13 - The battle of Blandford
January ’13 - Chettle: a photo essay
January ’13 - The Swanage Hospital debate
January ’13 - The bells of St Mary’s
January ’13 - The Dorset drive: Valleys, hills and views
January ’13 - Lingua franca
January ’13 - What’s the beef?
January ’13 - Poole’s incredible hulks
December ’12 - A falconer’s tale
December ’12 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – the Woodmouse
December ’12 - ‘Like a beast at bay’: Marie Curie’s secret stay in Highcliffe
December ’12 - From ‘primitive’ beginnings
December ’12 - Twelve months in North Dorset
December ’12 - Weymouth’s Wilberforce
December ’12 - A Dorset life for me
December ’12 - Giving Dorset: Lifetime partnerships
December ’12 - The Geology Of Dorset: The Palaeogene rocks
December ’12 - A taste of Dorset: a Naga saga
December ’12 - The beautiful game in God’s own county
December ’12 - Charmouth’s camera
November ’12 - In the footsteps of Treves – Cerne Abbas
November ’12 - Don’t worry, we can mend her – Ellie’s Doll Workshop
November ’12 - Thatching – an old skill in a new world – Dave Symonds
November ’12 - Jess of the dairy fields
November ’12 - ‘so nobly sacrificed their lives’: Dorchester war memorials
November ’12 - The Dorset Walk – Hod and Hambledon
November ’12 - In the year 2027 – Lyme Regis’s twenty-year plan
November ’12 - Dorset’s Autumn Mists
November ’12 - Dorset’s wild woodlands
November ’12 - Let there be Leet – Wareham’s Court Leet
November ’12 - ‘All that remains’ – Christchurch’s blue plaques
November ’12 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – redwing
November ’12 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – badger
October ’12 - Twinning comes of age: Ferndown and Segré
October ’12 - Horse power: Tony Munt, carriage driver
October ’12 - Danger UXB – Portland’s World War 2 UneXploded Bomb
October ’12 - The Saxon kings in Dorset – Dorset’s royal Wessex dynasty
October ’12 - Best, Crabb and Tucker: Beaminster’s schools
October ’12 - Bourton and Chaffeymoor: Booton Foot trails
October ’12 - Dorset Walk: Dorchester’s river
October ’12 - The Broadstone Music Series
October ’12 - Yeoman Service: Royal Wessex Yeomanry
October ’12 - Eype – a photo essay
October ’12 - More than the sum of its parts: mosaicist Robert Field
October ’12 - Dorset Granaries Photo Essay
September ’12 - Gardens: The Old Smithy, Ibberton
September ’12 - Forum for the future: Blandford’s DT11 Forum
September ’12 - Witchampton: Short walk with Clive Hannay
September ’12 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – porcelain fungus
September ’12 - Geology of Dorset: The Cretaceous rocks
September ’12 - Danger UXO (UneXploded Ordnance)
September ’12 - The old order changes: Wareham’s school upheaval
September ’12 - On a Wing and a Prayer: Felicity Irwin
September ’12 - Viva Iford: Bournemouth’s radical Russian printers
September ’12 - Booton Foot Trails: Evershot and Melbury Park
September ’12 - Dorset Walk: Mosterton, South Perrott and Chedington
September ’12 - Jess of the dairy fields
September ’12 - Shaftesbury: in the footsteps of Treves
August ’12 - ‘That’s the way to do it!’ Punch and Judy Professor Mark Paulton
August ’12 - Melplash: a ‘specially special’ show
August ’12 - Dorset’s Habitats – wild heathlands
August ’12 - Booton Foot Trails – Peter Booton in Owermoigne
August ’12 - Sturminster Newton: anything but a new town
August ’12 - All the fun of the care: St John Ambulance at the GDSF
August ’12 - Tanks! You’re Welcome: Bovington Tank Museum
August ’12 - Eyes along the coast – National Coastwatch Institution
August ’12 - Roger Guttridge – A Dorset Life For Me
August ’12 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Wasp Spider
August ’12 - What the Sandbanks milkman saw: Tony O’Hara
August ’12 - Dorset Walk – Studland, Ballard Down and Old Harry
August ’12 - The Dorset Walk: Shipton Gorge, Burton Bradstock and Cogden Beach
August ’12 - Kingston Lacy – Books do furnish a room
July ’12 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – Young fox cub
July ’12 - Dorset Gardens: ‘Ola’, Old Castle Road, Weymouth
July ’12 - Jess of the Dairyfields – Jessica Miller A Dorset dairy farmer’s wife
July ’12 - Iwerne Minster – the Titanic connection
July ’12 - The young man and the sea – A Swanage skipper’s life
July ’12 - Clive Hannay – view from a Dorset Artist
July ’12 - Ashmore – a photo essay
July ’12 - St Mark’s School, Talbot Woods – 150th anniversary
July ’12 - Booton Foot Trails – Peter Booton in Symondsbury
July ’12 - Dorset’s Bird Whisperer – Les Rowland
July ’12 - Shaftesbury Abbey’s Ancient Psalter
June ’12 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – June: Mullein moth caterpillar
June ’12 - A Dorset Life for Me by Roger Guttridge
June ’12 - Sturminster Newton – The Dorset Walk
June ’12 - ‘Simply just wizard, what?’. Antonia Forest and Percy Westerman
June ’12 - Dovecotes of Dorset
June ’12 - A musical Theme: Dorset Lives, Stephen Warbeck
June ’12 - Clive Hannay paints Ansty
June ’12 - TS Royalist Passing St Aldhelm’s Head
June ’12 - Lytchett Matravers – Booton Foot Trails
June ’12 - Weymouth Holy Trinity Environmental Garden
June ’12 - Diamond Jubilee then and now
June ’12 - Blandford: 235 years of Messrs Hall and Woodhouse
June ’12 - Bradford Abbas and Ryme Intrinseca
May ’12 - Cerne Abbas: when the village was sold at auction
May ’12 - Dorset Lives: Poole Pirates owner Matt Ford
May ’12 - From ancient to modern: Lyme Regis Fossil Festival
May ’12 - Christchurch’s MTBs: What happened to the wartime craft
May ’12 - Fra H Newbery: an artist in Purbeck
May ’12 - Booton Foot Trails: Chideock, Golden Cap and Seatown
May ’12 - In the footsteps of Treves: the Winterbornes
May ’12 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – May: Songthrushes
May ’12 - Dorset Garden: 54 Lonnen Road, Colehill
May ’12 - Dorset Habitats: Chalk downlands
May ’12 - Sturminster Newton and the Pitt-Rivers family
April ’12 - The cream of Dorset
April ’12 - The Dorset Walk: Portland quarries and coasts
April ’12 - The heart of art
April ’12 - Rescuing Dorset’s literature
April ’12 - ‘…a most obnoxious place’
April ’12 - Melbury Hill, Compton Abbas and Fontmell Down
April ’12 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – April
April ’12 - Oborne: a photo essay
April ’12 - Making scents of Dorset
April ’12 - Cider’s Poole
April ’12 - Pilsdon Manor and Community
April ’12 - A potted history of Verwood
March ’12 - Colin Varndell’s Wildlife Year – March
March ’12 - Dorset Lives: ‘If you can speak you can sing’
March ’12 - Dorset Garden: Knowle Farm, Uploders
March ’12 - Dorset from the sea
March ’12 - Cordite, clay and calluna
March ’12 - ‘A spot of faint interest…’
March ’12 - The Old Stone Wall at Stalbridge
March ’12 - The Geology Of Dorset: The Jurassic rocks
March ’12 - Shillingstone
March ’12 - Haring around the Cerne Valley
March ’12 - The Dorset Walk: Oakley Down, Pentridge Knoll and Bokerley Dyke
March ’12 - Fate of clay
February ’12 - A life in three acts
February ’12 - Not as black as he’s painted
February ’12 - On the buses
February ’12 - ‘Cold enough to kill the Devil’
February ’12 - ‘Start by doing what is necessary…’
February ’12 - A unique place to live
February ’12 - Wheel of misfortune
February ’12 - Thought for food
February ’12 - Near Golden Cap
February ’12 - Dorset’s habitats: the coast
February ’12 - Inside a Victorian rectory
January ’12 - An island waits
January ’12 - Centuries of care
January ’12 - Great expectations
January ’12 - If you go out in the woods today…
January ’12 - Lulworth, Camera, Action!
January ’12 - Puncknowle – a photographic essay
January ’12 - A day in the life of Bournemouth Airport
January ’12 - Giving Dorset – sign of a happy dog
January ’12 - A taste of Dorset – Rich tea heritage
December ’11 - Bidding for success
December ’11 - The bridges of Weymouth
December ’11 - An island life for me
December ’11 - The land on which we live – The Geology of Dorset
December ’11 - Charlie Mills refuses to be caned
December ’11 - East Holme
December ’11 - Dorset in Winter
December ’11 - Orlando’s bloom
November ’11 - From Shaftesbury towards Stalbridge
November ’11 - Knight or knave?
November ’11 - Grocer, diplomat, chieftan, pacifist
November ’11 - Dorset Lives – A new leaf
November ’11 - The Dorset Walk – Woolland, Belchalwell and Ibberton
November ’11 - Dorset from the sea – Double discovery
November ’11 - Return of a native
November ’11 - The Curse of Frampton
November ’11 - Blandford’s crowning glory
November ’11 - David Noton’s Dorset
November ’11 - Diary of a Dorset farmer’s wife
November ’11 - From Trickett’s Cross to Heatherlands
October ’11 - The Owld White Harse Wants Zetting to Rights
October ’11 - The Dorset Walk – Corfe Castle and Common
October ’11 - Tolpuddle – a photographic essay
October ’11 - Tales of rope and beer
October ’11 - Legging it in Dorset – Ashmore and Stubhampton
October ’11 - The Daniels of Beaminster
October ’11 - Hedging his bets
October ’11 - From dereliction to destination
October ’11 - Lyn and Malcolm’s Ferndown garden
September ’11 - Mapping Dorset
September ’11 - Button-up tunic, stiff boots, Wareham
September ’11 - Rodney Legg (1947-2011) and Dorset Life
September ’11 - Say ‘cheese’: it’s festival time!
September ’11 - Alfred Palmer
September ’11 - They loved it, yeah, yeah, yeah
September ’11 - ‘So considerable an object…’
August ’11 - Dorset’s redundant churches
August ’11 - Leaves from a Dorset diary
August ’11 - Continuing the tradition
August ’11 - Dorset Houses – A burning question
August ’11 - The Dorset Walk – Maiden Castle and Martinstown
August ’11 - In the Footsteps of Treves, The Isle of Purbeck – Corfe Castle
August ’11 - Giving Dorset – Not looking but searching
August ’11 - What do you get if you cross…?
August ’11 - Legging it in Dorset – Sutton Poyntz and Bincombe
August ’11 - Dorset Lives – Stock pictures
August ’11 - A bitter-sweet remembrance
July ’11 - Back in the Doggett’s home
July ’11 - Dorset Garden -Manor House, Lower Blandford St Mary
July ’11 - After the Games have gone
July ’11 - Tarrant Monkton – A photographic essay
July ’11 - The face of Dorset – Rural East Dorset
July ’11 - The Dorset Walk – Netherbury, Stoke Abbott and the Brit Valley Way
July ’11 - ‘So you want to learn to sail?’
July ’11 - Message… and a bottle
July ’11 - Shaftesbury’s medical history
June ’11 - Dorset’s hidden wonder
June ’11 - Dorset Houses – The lost mansion
June ’11 - Dorset Lives – His own man
June ’11 - Friends indeed
June ’11 - Whitcombe
June ’11 - Leaves from a Dorset diary
June ’11 - A Day in the Life of… Dorchester CAB
June ’11 - Legging it in Dorset – Trent and Nether Compton
June ’11 - The Dorset Walk – From Burton Green
June ’11 - Where to watch birds in Dorset
May ’11 - Weymouth’s donkeys
May ’11 - Legging it in Dorset – Winterborne Stickland and Clenston
May ’11 - The town camp races
May ’11 - The Dorset Walk – Portesham, Abbotsbury and the Hellstone
May ’11 - In the Footsteps of Treves – The North-East Outpost…
May ’11 - Giving Dorset – ‘All his soul with music offered’
May ’11 - Manor House, Beaminster
May ’11 - Dorset Lives
May ’11 - 1400 years of history?
May ’11 - The Dorset walk – Chetnole and Leigh
April ’11 - Dorset lives – A ‘rather tall’ man
April ’11 - All the world’s a stage
April ’11 - Maiden Newton in pictures
April ’11 - Until the cows came home
April ’11 - The Dorset ride
April ’11 - Athelhampton House
April ’11 - Once a folly, now a Jurassic jewel
April ’11 - When the world was ruled from Dorset
April ’11 - Dorset Sweet and Sour
April ’11 - Heron’s Mead, East Burton
March ’11 - Hardy and Tess of the D’Urbervilles
March ’11 - ‘You can’t run it just as a business’
March ’11 - A taste of Dorset – Oyster source
March ’11 - Realm of the piers
March ’11 - Dorset lives – A test of metal
March ’11 - The Dorset walk – Green spaces and quiet roads
March ’11 - Plants that eat insects!
March ’11 - Purse Caundle
March ’11 - Fertile ground- Gillingham Primary School
March ’11 - Wimborne St Giles
February ’11 - Corfu’s Dorset connections
February ’11 - Giving Dorset – ‘Call My Bluff’ – with a Dorset twist
February ’11 - Downes and outs
February ’11 - The Archbishop of Blandford
February ’11 - Something in the air
February ’11 - In the Footsteps of Treves – Marshwood Vale and the West Border
February ’11 - Dorset lives – From music to art, from dark to light
February ’11 - Seeing beyond the prison uniform
February ’11 - Dorset in winter
February ’11 - The beating heart
January ’11 - Dorset – a bird’s eye view, Eastbury House
January ’11 - ‘We do wash sometimes’
January ’11 - The joy of the new
January ’11 - Dorset Lives – The Polymoth
January ’11 - Three cheers for Sawbridge Drax
January ’11 - ‘The temporary requirements of mere fashion’
January ’11 - Poundbury is home
January ’11 - The phoenix of Christchurch
January ’11 - Kingston
January ’11 - Charting Poole Harbour
December ’10 - A nobler sense of duty
December ’10 - Curiosities of Wimborne
December ’10 - Dorset lives – In the public service
December ’10 - Hardy and The Trumpet Major
December ’10 - The Loss of the Halsewell
December ’10 - Taste of Dorset – Vinny, vidi, vici
December ’10 - ‘Whitehead is a scamp.’
December ’10 - Chalbury
December ’10 - And the night shall be filled with music
December ’10 - In the shadow of the Chase
November ’10 - The Dorset walk – Plush and Lyscombe
November ’10 - In the footsteps of Treves – Hilton and Bingham’s Melcombe
November ’10 - On the way back
November ’10 - ‘A tunnel wide’
November ’10 - Captain Swing was here!
November ’10 - Dorset lives – Chipping away
November ’10 - Norburton Hall
November ’10 - THE FACE OF DORSET – ‘That special part of Dorset’
November ’10 - Christmas shopping in Dorchester
November ’10 - Ferndown then and now
October ’10 - Farm favourites
October ’10 - The valley of the deer
October ’10 - Burton Bradstock
October ’10 - Legging it in Dorset
October ’10 - Barnes in Love
October ’10 - Beauty and brawn
October ’10 - Dorset lives – Making the collections work harder
October ’10 - Wet and wild in Weymouth
October ’10 - The Dorset walk – Cranborne
October ’10 - Part of the Madding Crowd
October ’10 - For the health of the community
September ’10 - We have him
September ’10 - Marshwood
September ’10 - The Dairy House, Melbury Osmund
September ’10 - Et in Arcadia ego
September ’10 - A taste of Dorset – Baking for a century
September ’10 - A wartime childhood in Swanage
September ’10 - The missing millions
September ’10 - Keeping the sea at bay
August ’10 - A day in the life of Wareham Quay
August ’10 - Cogden
August ’10 - In the footsteps of Treves
August ’10 - From railway to trailway
August ’10 - Art with a meaning
August ’10 - Bridport’s arts hub
August ’10 - Radio Therapy
July ’10 - A funeral at Tyneham
July ’10 - When Wimborne went wild
July ’10 - 150 years on
July ’10 - Mary Anning and me
June ’10 - Dorset lives – Seventy years of farming
June ’10 - Chettle
June ’10 - Dorset lives — ‘I quite literally enjoy whatever I’m working on!’
May ’10 - Ages past, years to come
May ’10 - Dragoons, Yeomanry and Signallers
May ’10 - ‘Try and remember him!’
May ’10 - Going forward together
May ’10 - In the Footsteps of Treves — Wimborne St Giles
May ’10 - Dorchester’s river
May ’10 - The River Stour: a photographic essay
May ’10 - Poole’s wait for a war memorial
April ’10 - Dorset Lives — Deserving Trust
April ’10 - Hinton Martell
April ’10 - The Face of Dorset — The Blackmore Vale
April ’10 - Six-legged wonders
April ’10 - The finest parish church in England?
April ’10 - Giving Dorset — Lost and hound
April ’10 - War comes to Beaminster
April ’10 - More memories of a Weymouth cub reporter
March ’10 - Dorset lives — Art of oak
March ’10 - Pampering pigs
March ’10 - ‘Doing your own thing’
March ’10 - Steeple
March ’10 - The beginnings of Bournemouth
March ’10 - Colonial leftovers
March ’10 - Following in Roman footsteps
March ’10 - Dorset – a bird’s eye view
March ’10 - Palmy skies
March ’10 - Maiden Castle to Penbury Knoll
February ’10 - Save Blandford’s church!
February ’10 - The smuggling churchwarden
February ’10 - Dorset lives — A glass half-full
February ’10 - A miscellany of Dorsetshire memorials
February ’10 - Growing up on Portland in the ’twenties and ’thirties
February ’10 - Royalty, poets and moss
February ’10 - The water that is passed
February ’10 - Wheat over water
February ’10 - In the footsteps of Treves — Poxwell and Osmington
February ’10 - Prints of England
January ’10 - Plough Monday in Dorchester
January ’10 - Bridehead revisited
January ’10 - Giving Dorset — ‘To climb as high as they can dream’
January ’10 - A day in the life of a country rector
January ’10 - Not worth defending?
January ’10 - Dorset lives — Model citizen
January ’10 - ‘Small neat ears and thick silky hair’
January ’10 - Raising standards and horizons
January ’10 - The face of Dorset — Cranborne Chase
December ’09 - Herbaceous gardening at its best
December ’09 - Pamela Hambro and the lost world of Milton Abbey
December ’09 - 150 years of the railway in Gillingham
December ’09 - Bradford Abbas
December ’09 - Dorset lives — Tuning in
December ’09 - A Captain Courageous
December ’09 - A taste of Dorset — Honeybuns
December ’09 - Theatre of dreams
December ’09 - A Dorset Christmas
December ’09 - ‘This wonderful wilderness’
November ’09 - Tolkien in Bournemouth and Dorset
November ’09 - In the footsteps of Treves — The Tollers, Wynford Eagle, Rampisham and Evershot
November ’09 - How do they fit it all in?
November ’09 - How the mighty atom came to Dorset
November ’09 - Staying behind
November ’09 - Taking their toll
November ’09 - Dorset’s plague port
November ’09 - Dorset lives — Wootton’s woodmen
November ’09 - The Dorset walk — Cranborne and Wimborne St Giles
November ’09 - Dorset at first light
October ’09 - Moreton
October ’09 - The face of Dorset — South Dorset
October ’09 - ‘Costly and beautiful treasures’
October ’09 - Giving Dorset — Lighten their darkness
October ’09 - Lilliput’s industrial past
October ’09 - Editor Extraordinaire – Donald Mildenhall MBE
October ’09 - The Dorset walk — Winterbornes Clenston, Stickland and Houghton
October ’09 - Damory of Blandford
October ’09 - Legging it in Dorset — Cann and Compton Abbas
October ’09 - Picturing Dorset
September ’09 - West Morden
September ’09 - Walking through Dorchester’s history
September ’09 - The Dorset Walk — Creech, Corfe Castle and Knowle Hill
September ’09 - A day in the life of the Bournemouth International Centre
September ’09 - Corscombe House
September ’09 - Legging it in Dorset — East Chaldon and White Nothe
September ’09 - Dorset pub stroll — The Charlton Inn
September ’09 - Bold as brass
September ’09 - In the Footsteps of Treves — Lyme Regis
August ’09 - Legging it in Dorset — Kimmeridge to Worbarrow
August ’09 - The Dorset walk — Chalmington, Chantmarle and Wraxall
August ’09 - Sherborne then and now
August ’09 - ‘It’s like an old-fashioned village now!’
August ’09 - Llama karma
August ’09 - More to it than a brown loaf
August ’09 - Parnham House, a family home again
August ’09 - Dorset pub stroll — The Greyhound Inn
July ’09 - Legging it in Dorset — Thorncombe and Forde
July ’09 - Dorset — a bird’s eye view — Christchurch Harbour
July ’09 - The Dorset Walk — Thornford, Leweston and Lillington
July ’09 - New work unlocks the secrets of Christchurch’s workhouse
July ’09 - Gillingham in festival mood
July ’09 - ‘A typical Dorset Village’
July ’09 - Elegance in historic surroundings
July ’09 - The Priest’s House Museum
July ’09 - Say hello to Old Harry
July ’09 - Legging it in Dorset — Woods of Cranborne Chase
June ’09 - The Dorset walk — Beaminster, Netherbury and Stoke Abbott
June ’09 - Dorset — a bird’s eye view — Lulworth Cove
June ’09 - Wareham’s air raid
June ’09 - A taste of Dorset — A pint of piddle, please…
June ’09 - Giving back to Portland
June ’09 - Bettiscombe
June ’09 - Colours of the Dorset Coast
June ’09 - Legging it in Dorset
May ’09 - The Dorset walk — Purbeck heath and forest
May ’09 - A schoolboy at Wimborne Minster
May ’09 - Stalbridge’s historian
May ’09 - Massacre at Slapton Sands — the great Portland cover-up
May ’09 - Back to the future
May ’09 - In the footsteps of Treves — Trent
May ’09 - The face of Dorset — The hills of West Dorset
May ’09 - Dorset in spring and early summer
May ’09 - Sturminster Marshall
April ’09 - Eating out with Bertie
April ’09 - Dorset — a bird’s eye view
April ’09 - Defoe in Dorset
April ’09 - The Dorset Walk — Tarrant Monkton and Manswood
April ’09 - Christchurch’s ‘fraught and dangerous business’
April ’09 - Saturday Driver
April ’09 - Inspired To Learn
April ’09 - An Unforgettable Evening
April ’09 - ‘A Long and Intimate Relationship’
April ’09 - The Dorset walk — Eype Down and West Bay
March ’09 - An Uphill Challenge
March ’09 - Colin Varndell’s wildlife diary — March
March ’09 - Rolling Out The Barrelhouse
March ’09 - ‘The Lively Old lady’
March ’09 - How Arne Saved Holton Heath
March ’09 - When Blandford Burnt
March ’09 - In Another World
March ’09 - Bradford Peverell
March ’09 - Curiosities of Dorset Churches
March ’09 - Poole and Art Deco
February ’09 - Dorset pub stroll
February ’09 - From baths to drill hall to cinema to theatre
February ’09 - The Purbeck ‘volcano’
February ’09 - On the prowl
February ’09 - Beaminster then and now
February ’09 - Decay or restoration?
February ’09 - Dorset — a bird’s eye view — The Eastern Purbeck Hills
February ’09 - In the footsteps of Treves — The road to Blandford
February ’09 - Some Lost Castles Of Dorset
February ’09 - Dorset pub stroll
January ’09 - The Dorset Drive — Avon, Allen, Tarrant and Stour
January ’09 - Tennis for Real in Dorset
January ’09 - Lady of the Palms and Paddy Fields
January ’09 - The (almost) Complete Guide
January ’09 - A Soldier of Dorset
January ’09 - Osmington
January ’09 - Riding The Rails
January ’09 - Dorset’s Rivers
January ’09 - ‘The sooner they get on with it, the better’
December ’08 - Horizontal Apostles
December ’08 - William Barnes and me
December ’08 - Eating out with Bertie
December ’08 - The Clay Boats of Poole
December ’08 - The Home Front in Wimborne
December ’08 - A glorious way to spend a Sunday afternoon
December ’08 - Pimperne
December ’08 - The Dorset walk — Ashmore, Compton Abbas and Fontmell Magna
November ’08 - Eating out with Freddie
November ’08 - A Nation of Shopkeepers
November ’08 - Libya to Lulworth
November ’08 - In the footsteps of Treves — The land behind the Chesil Beach
November ’08 - The Flowers of Dorset’s Riversides
November ’08 - Birds That Kill
November ’08 - To The Manor Re-born
November ’08 - True Blue
November ’08 - The Dorset Walk — Chetnole, Melbury Osmond and Melbury Bubb
October ’08 - Spellbound In Darkness
October ’08 - Dorset Pub Stroll
October ’08 - A Portland Success Story
October ’08 - Frampton Village
October ’08 - Sanctuary in Ferndown
October ’08 - Dorset in Autumn
October ’08 - “Vile Ministers” and “Poor Silly Creatures”
October ’08 - A Blandford Institution
October ’08 - Wealth, a martyr’s bones and dissolution
October ’08 - East Creech
September ’08 - The Dorset walk
September ’08 - Dorset pub stroll
September ’08 - Eating Out with Freddie
September ’08 - Telling The Story Of Gillingham
September ’08 - A Dorset Love Story
September ’08 - With the ATS in Weymouth
September ’08 - Down to the hollow
September ’08 - Dorset’s rivers — The Stour: Blandford to Wimborne
September ’08 - Verwood then and now
August ’08 - West Bay
August ’08 - Inn With Freddie — The Anchor
August ’08 - Legging It In Dorset — Compton Valence
August ’08 - Planes For All To See
August ’08 - Unsung Hero
August ’08 - The Hope Is Great
August ’08 - In the footsteps of Treves — Studland
August ’08 - ‘The wonders of my garden’
August ’08 - Milton Abbas
July ’08 - Down to the sea in ships
July ’08 - Inn with Freddie — The King’s Arms
July ’08 - Eating out with Bertie — Rajasthan Restaurant
July ’08 - Legging it in Dorset — Portland
July ’08 - Bournemouth’s flying circuses
July ’08 - The Dorset Walk — Puncknowle and West Bexington
July ’08 - All change?
July ’08 - A bird’s eye view — The Dorset coast from Gad Cliff to White Nothe
July ’08 - Shaftesbury and the High House Press
July ’08 - Small but perfectly formed
July ’08 - Eating out with Freddie — The Old Granary
June ’08 - Legging it in Dorset — Pentridge and Martin Down
June ’08 - Roads to the Isle
June ’08 - The Dorset walk — Cheselbourne and Bingham’s Melcombe
June ’08 - A happy band
June ’08 - A chequered history but a secure future?
June ’08 - Piddlehinton
June ’08 - Fiddleford Mill and Girdler’s Coppice
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