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THE lavish contents of one of Britains most beautiful stately homes are being auctioned off in a £1m everything-must-go sale run by a Dorchester auction house. Wormington Grange has been owned since the 1970s by John Evetts, the grandson of Lord Ismay, Winston Churchills chief military strategist during World War Two. Mr Evetts has sold the neoclassical Cotswolds mansion for a multi-million pounds sum as he is downsizing to a smaller property in the area. The sale features over 1,000 i...

This week my wife and I had our first non essential trip out. We went to the top of the Abbotsbury Hill and had a great view of Portland which most people do not realise has more homes than Dorchester. We are so lucky to live in Dorset and well understand why other people want to live here. Sadly we have yet to explore the water meadows North of Dorchester although I suspect we have plenty of time as the citizens of Dorchester will be out with their banners and pitch forks preventing t...

Wormington Grange in Stanton, Gloucestershire, is currently owned by John Evetts, the grandson of Churchills chief military assistant Lord Ismay.

Mary Shelley  Richard Rothwells portrait of Mary Shelley Mary Shelley published Frankenstein on January 1, 1818 following a summer spent with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, John William Polidori and Mary’s stepsister Claire Clairmont near Geneva. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, grew from a short story into a novel, and was initially published without an author’s name. Shelleys success however, was short-lived as tragedy struck her family. Following Percy Bysshes de...

More then and now pictures of Dorsets most enduring pubs We enjoyed taking a trip down memory lane to celebrate the staying power of Dorset country pubs so much - we decided to do it again. Here are five more pubs, both urban and rural in this area, which have lasted the course over many years. All pubs are, of course, currently closed due to the national lockdown but we are very much looking forward to returning to some of these enduring watering holes when restrictions are lifted. Scr...

It would be fair to describe the great English novelist and poet Thomas Hardy as a Renaissance man, although he may have had a more somber viewpoint than many. Born on June 2, 1840, near the market town of Dorchester, England, and son of a stonemason and builder, Hardy lacked the funds to pursue a top-tier education. Instead, he learned architecture, for which he exhibited prodigious skill. In 1862, he enrolled in King’s College in London, where he won prizes from the Royal Institute of Br...

PRIZED Thomas Hardy archives will return to Dorset after a successful fundraising campaign. Dorset Archives Trust launched a campaign in early December to raise the final £5,000 of a total £50,000 required to enable the purchase of the collection by Dorset History Centre from a private dealer in London. And the funds were raised within days - meaning the collection of the famed authors manuscripts and documents can return to the county. The archives are now set to be displayed at the ...

Map reveals the most popular famous people linked to Dorset towns AN interactive map reveals the most searched for famous people in towns across Dorset. The map, which can be found through this link, uses the most popular searches on Wikipedia to change the face of the county. Towns and cities are instead replaced by famous residents or people born or connected to that place. The People Map of the UK website is based on data collected and processed from Wikipedia from July 2015 to May 2...