On June 16, 1870 a severe hailstorm swept across West Dorset. The storm was described by Philip H Newnham, Rector of Frome Vauchurch in a letter to the Editor of the Meteorological Magazine.
Hailstorm hits West Dorset
December 29, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location, History)
Tags: Dorset, Sherborne, Abbotsbury, Dorchester, Evershot, Maiden Newton
Ancient Shooting Butts at Evershot
September 16, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location, History)
Tags: Dorset, Evershot, Edwards, Hardy, Cardrow, Lennard, Reade, Hallet, Pound, Strowd, Fisher, Wilkins
The following letter, concerning a complaint that some men at Evershot had been subjected to actions for trespass when attempting to practice therie archery, was published in Notes & Queries for Somerset and Dorset, Volume VIII
Fatal Railway Accident at Evershot
September 1, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: History, Dorset, Evershot, Phillips, Lock, Kilby, Clapcott, Hare, Kellaway, Genealogy
On the evening of Saturday September 30, 1865, an inquest was held at the Lion Inn, Holywell, Evershot, Dorset before Mr. H. Lock, deputy coroner,into the death of William Phillips, a Great Western Railway under guard who had died the previous evening following an accident on the line about a mile and a quarter from Evershot station.
