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(Sarah Welton)  Much of Dorset’s coast is now a World Heritage Site; one of Britain’s first underwater marine wildlife reserves is at Kimmeridge. Add Dorset’s rock pools and coastal waters, the unique shingle bank of Chesil Beach and the Fleet…..

(Godfrey maps)  A map of Frome in 1902 at a scale of approximately 15 inches to the mile providing great detail, showing individual houses, railway tracks, factories and churches etc, and even minutiae such as pathways, signal posts, sheds, wells…..

(Godfrey maps)  A map of Poole in 1900 at a scale of approximately 15 inches to the mile providing great detail, showing individual houses, railway tracks, factories and churches etc, and even minutiae such as pathways, signal posts, sheds, wells…..

(Godfrey maps)  A map of Sturminster Newton in 1900 at a scale of approximately 15 inches to the mile providing great detail, showing individual houses, railway tracks, factories and churches etc, and even minutiae such as pathways, signal posts, sheds,…..

A record of the recruitment of volunteer soldiers in Dorset in the French Revolutionary War of 1793 to 1802, from their beginnings in 1794 to their peak in 1798, when patriotic fervour was at its height under the shadow of…..