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Somerset & Dorset
Family History Society
Family History Society
Along the Dusty Road – Motor Buses and Carriers from Dorchester (Roger Grimley) At the beginning of the twentieth century Dorset was, as it is still, a largely unknown county. Primarily an agricultural area, its inhabitants were country people and much of the county was remote, the railway serving only the extremities. Local transport needs were met by principally by country carriers. Dorchester is the focal point of a number of valleys and main roads. Taking each of the routes out of Dorchester in turn, a booklet deals with one of them, together with the men who introduced public motor transport in the first half of the 20th century. All the booklets have soft covers. We have no stock of Parts One and Ten.
Two routes are covered. The first left Evershot on Mondays and Fridays for Yeovil, calling at Melbury Oak and Melbury Osmond, and Passing the Quicksilver Mail Hotel in Yeovil. The second picked up in Evershot and then visiting Rampisham, Lower…..
£2.50
Dorchester to Bulbarrow Hill, via Puddletown, Dewlish, Cheselbourne, Melcombe Bingham, Lower Ansty, Hilton, Higher Ansty, Stoke wake and Hazelbury. Soft covers. 36 pages,
£2.50
Dorchester to Blandford via Puddletown, Milborne St Andrew and Winterborne Whitechurch. Soft covers. 36 pages.
£2.50
Dorchester to Sherborne via Charminster, Nether Cerne, Cerne Abbas, Up Cerne, Minterne Magna, Holnest and Long Burton. Soft covers. 36 pages.
£2.50
Drchester to Sydling St Nicholas via Bradford Peverel, Stratton and Grimtone. Soft covers. 24 pages.
Litton Cheney to Bridport, via Pucknowle, Swyre and Burton Bradstock. Also Litton Cheney to Dorchester, via Winterbourne Abbas. 36 pages. Soft covers.
£2.50
Albert Pearce, using horses until the 1940s, shared a route from Cattistock to Dorchester with Frank Legg. Albert then bought a Model T Ford chassis, which he had fitted with a 14 seater body, and which was used on the…..
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Various carriers ran services to Weymouth, some using main roads and others serving smaller villages such as Owermoigne, Moreton, Woodsford and West Stafford. Another service visited Warmwell Cross, Poxwell and Osmington. 40 pages. Soft covers.
£2.50