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Milton Abbas

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

Milton Abbas

© David Martin / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

© David Martin / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

Milton Abbas

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Milton Abbas is a model village of 1780, built when Lord Milton — the Earl of Dorchester — swept away the old market town of Middleton because it spoiled the view from his mansion. William Chambers and Capability Brown laid out a fresh street of near-identical white thatched cottages, set in pairs up a curving valley below the woods. It survives almost exactly as designed.

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

Dorset National Landscape

You’re inside itNational Landscape near Dorchester

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

Photo along the Wessex Ridgeway, a 136-mile long-distance path running from Marlborough to Lyme Regis, south west England.

Wessex Ridgeway

Long-distance path

The prehistoric chalk line continued — from Marlborough across Salisbury Plain and Cranborne Chase to the sea at Lyme Regis.

4.4 km NW · Wiltshire, Dorset & Devon

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

8.1 km S

Photo of Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs, a National Landscape in England.Highlight

Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs

National Landscape near Tisbury

Big chalk downland and old hunting country, with some of the darkest night skies in southern England

8.2 km NE

Photo of Blandford Forum, a village in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Blandford Forum

Village

The most complete small Georgian town in England, rebuilt in fine brick after a 1731 fire on the banks of the River Stour.

8.5 km NE · Dorset

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.

8.6 km SE · Dorset & Wiltshire