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Briantspuddle

Photo of Briantspuddle, a village in Dorset, south west England.

Briantspuddle

© Malc McDonald / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

© Malc McDonald / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Briantspuddle

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Briantspuddle is a model village in the Piddle Valley, built up between the wars by the department-store owner Sir Ernest Debenham as a self-sufficient farming estate. Its whitewashed cob-and-thatch cottages include The Ring, a distinctive thatched group he added in 1919, and the war memorial nearby was carved by Eric Gill. Moreton station is about 6km to the south-west.

More places to visit near Briantspuddle

Photo along the Hardy Way, a 217-mile long-distance path running from Higher Bockhampton to Stinsford, south west England.Highlight

Hardy Way

Long-distance path

Around Thomas Hardy's Wessex from his birthplace cottage to the churchyard at Stinsford, via Corfe Castle and Lulworth Cove.

0.4 km SE · Dorset & Wiltshire

Photo of Tolpuddle Martyrs' Tree, an ancient site near Briantspuddle, Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Tolpuddle Martyrs' Tree

Ancient site near Briantspuddle

The old sycamore on Tolpuddle's green where six farm workers met in 1834 and set the trade-union movement going

2.8 km NW

Photo of Sculpture by the Lakes, a garden near Pallington, Dorset, south west England.

Sculpture by the Lakes

Garden near Pallington

A tranquil sculpture park of three lakes, ponds and ornamental gardens set with monumental bronze and stone works in the Frome valley.

3.6 km SW

Photo of the Dorset National Landscape, a National Landscape in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Dorset National Landscape

National Landscape near Dorchester

Chalk ridges, quiet combes and one of the finest coastlines in England, from Lyme Bay to Purbeck

5.1 km NW

Photo of the Purbeck Heritage Coast, Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Purbeck

Heritage Coast near Wareham

Dorset's "Isle" of Purbeck, a peninsula of chalk and limestone on the Jurassic Coast, with sea stacks, quarried stone and a ruined castle

8.1 km S

Photo of Milton Abbas, a village in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Milton Abbas

Village

An 18th-century model village of near-identical white thatched cottages set in pairs up a single curving street below the wooded downs.

9.2 km N · Dorset