Showing posts with label Out and About. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Out and About. Show all posts
Sunday, November 25, 2018
Monday, November 19, 2018
Briantspuddle, Dorchester.
Briantspuddle.
- Briantspuddle Crowned Dorset's Best Small Village
The village was first mentioned in the history books in 1083...has been crowned the 2018 winner of the Dorset Best Village Awards.
Contains 35 listed buildings.
It was owned by grandson of William Debenham, founder of the British department store Debenhams till 1952.
- How Briantspuddle near Dorchester got its name | Dorset Echo
Briantspuddle is recorded in the Domesday Book, although it appears simply as Pidele and takes its name from the River Piddle.
This is one of the many English place names coined by the Saxons who brought the language to our islands which we know as Old English and is aptly named as the ancestor of our modern tongue.
The river name has changed little since the original pidele described ‘the marsh or fenland’.
Perhaps we should see this as the river which drained this wetland, especially considering the modern use of a very similar word.
The addition to the river name is first seen in 1465 as Brianis Pedille and reminds us the lord of the manor in the 14th century was named Brian.
- Briantspuddle Crowned Dorset's Best Small Village
The village was first mentioned in the history books in 1083...has been crowned the 2018 winner of the Dorset Best Village Awards.
Contains 35 listed buildings.
It was owned by grandson of William Debenham, founder of the British department store Debenhams till 1952.
- How Briantspuddle near Dorchester got its name | Dorset Echo
Briantspuddle is recorded in the Domesday Book, although it appears simply as Pidele and takes its name from the River Piddle.
This is one of the many English place names coined by the Saxons who brought the language to our islands which we know as Old English and is aptly named as the ancestor of our modern tongue.
The river name has changed little since the original pidele described ‘the marsh or fenland’.
Perhaps we should see this as the river which drained this wetland, especially considering the modern use of a very similar word.
The addition to the river name is first seen in 1465 as Brianis Pedille and reminds us the lord of the manor in the 14th century was named Brian.
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Moor Crichel East Dorset, England.
English bucolic...pastoral.
...rest and be thankful.
- The Avenue at Moor Crichel – cycling the lanes of Dorset – The Dorset Rambler
...rest and be thankful.
- The Avenue at Moor Crichel – cycling the lanes of Dorset – The Dorset Rambler
Sunday, October 21, 2018
Saturday, October 6, 2018
Sunday, September 16, 2018
Dunshay Manor.
Dunshay Manor, Worth Matravers, near Swanage, Dorset.
Dunshay Manor was bequeathed to the Landmark Trust by Mary Spencer Watson, a renowned mid-20th-century sculptor who had lived there since childhood.
This Grade II* manor house dates back to the late 16th century, was aggrandised in the 17th and given an Arts & Crafts refresh in the early 20th century.
- Dunshay: a private view | Dorset Life - The Dorset Magazine
- Dunshay Manor | Purbeck | Dorset | XCVI
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Bournemouth’s Fisherman's Walk Cliff Lift.
Bournemouth’s Fisherman's Walk Cliff Lift.
Lift was built in 1935.
It links the beach to a cliff top café.
Get a great view of the coast.
Lift was built in 1935.
It links the beach to a cliff top café.
Get a great view of the coast.
Friday, August 31, 2018
Tyneham: Dorset's lost D-Day village - Dorset's ghost village.
Exploring deserted Tyneham at dusk when all the visitors have left and with the sun dipping over Worbarrow Bay, is when the musical's anthem seems most poignant
- 'Can you hear the whispers in the walls?'.
In 1943 the population of simple farmers and fishermen were given 30 days to leave their homes to allow for the Ministry of Defence’s preparations for D-Day, little knowing that they would never return.
By Christmas 1943 all 225 inhabitants had abandoned the village and Tyneham has remained a ghost town ever since, with only the shells of some of its former buildings left to tell the tale.
Please treat the church and houses with care; we have given up our homes where many of us lived for generations to help win the war to keep men free. We shall return one day and thank you for treating the village kindly. / the last person leaving a notice on the church door in 1943!/
1580s Tyneham House built
1932 - Tyneham village school closes due to lack of numbers
1943 - Tyneham, East Holme, East Lulworth, East Stoke and Steeple fall under War Office requisition order
1968 Tyneham Action Group campaign for village to be given to National Trust
1974 - MoD rejects a hand back of the land but allows greater access to walking routes and makes remaining buildings safe
1979 - First church service held at Tyneham for 36 years
Tyneham is a ghost village but In 2008, Tyneham Farm was reopened to the public and conservation work there is ongoing.
A walk out of the village leads to the ruins of Tyneham Farm and the old farmlands where sheep still graze.
Returning home after two years as a prisoner of war in Germany, Lieutenant Mark Bond alighted at his usual railway station in the early hours to find it closed and the telephone disconnected.
He slept on a waiting room table until his father arrived to collect him soon after daylight.
As they drove, Bond turned to his father and said: “Hey, you’re going the wrong way.” “No,” his father replied, “we live in a different house now.”
While he was away, the house and land (3,003 acre site) owned by the Bond family for 300 years, a beautiful area forming part of the tranquil Tyneham valley in Dorset, had been requisitioned for a tank firing range.
Major-General Mark Bond Of Tyneham and Moigne Combe (1922-2017)
Moigne Combe
Moigne Combe.
Ralph & Evelyn Bond moved to Moigne Combe.
Following his retirement from the Army in 1972, their son, Major-General Mark Bond took over the running of the Estate and pursued an active public life.
He lived there happily, surrounded by the Moigne Combe Woods and the tranquillity he loved, until his death in 2017.
A country estate Moigne Combe owned by the same Bond family who inspired Ian Fleming's 007 character has gone on the market for £3.5m.
John Bond was an Elizabethan spy who adopted the Latin phrase 'non sufficit orbis' (the world is not enough) as his family's motto.
John Bond spied for Queen Elizabeth I in the late 1500s, assisting Sir Francis Drake on many escapades, including the 1586 raid on the Azores, which Spain had just bought from Portugal.
During the raid on the Spanish governor's palace, Drake saw a stone globe with the Latin phrase non sufficit orbis, which was King Philip II of Spain's motto.
It is thought Fleming learned of his exciting tales of 16th century espionage while the author went to prep school in Dorset in 1914.
Fleming is known to have found the name James Bond on a book of birds when he was in Jamaica, but he knew the Dorset Bonds from his days at Durnford School, an austere prep school in Langton Matravers.
He was sent there when he was aged seven.
But the headmaster's wife read the boys adventure stories in the evenings which he said was the only bit he liked about the school and it put the seed in his head for his later James Bond books.
He introduced the spy's 'the world is not enough' motto in the book On Her Majesty's Secret Service and it became the title of the 21st Bond film in 1999.
The motto can still be seen on another of the Bond family's homes, Creech Grange at East Holme - Creech Grange was sold to Nathaniel Bond in 1691.
Fleming also used another old Dorset family name, Drax, for his villain Sir Hugo Drax, who he named after his acquaintance Admiral Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.
Worbarrow Bay
This beautiful bay is just a 20 minute walk from the village of Tyneham.
It is a hidden gem on the Jurrasic coast of Dorset.
The waters are brilliant blue and the beach, although pebbles is clean and tidy.
The views along the coast are splendid.
It is well worth the walk of about one mile from the village of Tyneham which is also worth visiting.
- 'Can you hear the whispers in the walls?'.
In 1943 the population of simple farmers and fishermen were given 30 days to leave their homes to allow for the Ministry of Defence’s preparations for D-Day, little knowing that they would never return.By Christmas 1943 all 225 inhabitants had abandoned the village and Tyneham has remained a ghost town ever since, with only the shells of some of its former buildings left to tell the tale.Please treat the church and houses with care; we have given up our homes where many of us lived for generations to help win the war to keep men free. We shall return one day and thank you for treating the village kindly. / the last person leaving a notice on the church door in 1943!/1580s Tyneham House built1932 - Tyneham village school closes due to lack of numbers
1943 - Tyneham, East Holme, East Lulworth, East Stoke and Steeple fall under War Office requisition order
1968 Tyneham Action Group campaign for village to be given to National Trust
1974 - MoD rejects a hand back of the land but allows greater access to walking routes and makes remaining buildings safe
1979 - First church service held at Tyneham for 36 years
Tyneham is a ghost village but In 2008, Tyneham Farm was reopened to the public and conservation work there is ongoing.
A walk out of the village leads to the ruins of Tyneham Farm and the old farmlands where sheep still graze.Returning home after two years as a prisoner of war in Germany, Lieutenant Mark Bond alighted at his usual railway station in the early hours to find it closed and the telephone disconnected.
He slept on a waiting room table until his father arrived to collect him soon after daylight.
As they drove, Bond turned to his father and said: “Hey, you’re going the wrong way.” “No,” his father replied, “we live in a different house now.”
While he was away, the house and land (3,003 acre site) owned by the Bond family for 300 years, a beautiful area forming part of the tranquil Tyneham valley in Dorset, had been requisitioned for a tank firing range.
Major-General Mark Bond Of Tyneham and Moigne Combe (1922-2017)
Moigne CombeMoigne Combe.Ralph & Evelyn Bond moved to Moigne Combe.
Following his retirement from the Army in 1972, their son, Major-General Mark Bond took over the running of the Estate and pursued an active public life.
He lived there happily, surrounded by the Moigne Combe Woods and the tranquillity he loved, until his death in 2017.
A country estate Moigne Combe owned by the same Bond family who inspired Ian Fleming's 007 character has gone on the market for £3.5m.
John Bond was an Elizabethan spy who adopted the Latin phrase 'non sufficit orbis' (the world is not enough) as his family's motto.
John Bond spied for Queen Elizabeth I in the late 1500s, assisting Sir Francis Drake on many escapades, including the 1586 raid on the Azores, which Spain had just bought from Portugal.
During the raid on the Spanish governor's palace, Drake saw a stone globe with the Latin phrase non sufficit orbis, which was King Philip II of Spain's motto.
It is thought Fleming learned of his exciting tales of 16th century espionage while the author went to prep school in Dorset in 1914.
Fleming is known to have found the name James Bond on a book of birds when he was in Jamaica, but he knew the Dorset Bonds from his days at Durnford School, an austere prep school in Langton Matravers.
He was sent there when he was aged seven.
But the headmaster's wife read the boys adventure stories in the evenings which he said was the only bit he liked about the school and it put the seed in his head for his later James Bond books.
He introduced the spy's 'the world is not enough' motto in the book On Her Majesty's Secret Service and it became the title of the 21st Bond film in 1999.
The motto can still be seen on another of the Bond family's homes, Creech Grange at East Holme - Creech Grange was sold to Nathaniel Bond in 1691.
Fleming also used another old Dorset family name, Drax, for his villain Sir Hugo Drax, who he named after his acquaintance Admiral Reginald Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax.
Worbarrow Bay
This beautiful bay is just a 20 minute walk from the village of Tyneham.
It is a hidden gem on the Jurrasic coast of Dorset.
The waters are brilliant blue and the beach, although pebbles is clean and tidy.
The views along the coast are splendid.
It is well worth the walk of about one mile from the village of Tyneham which is also worth visiting.
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