It is now more than ten years since the livestock market at Sturminster Newton closed down, bringing to an end 700 years of tradition. There was a project gathering views and ideas on video from the users of the market as part of the effort to keep it open. The realisation of what the closure meant to the people who used it was part of the inspiration behind the concept of “Farm Radio“.
Heart of the Vale, Soul of the Town
May 18, 2009 at 4:00 am (Genealogy)
Tags: Dorset, Farm Radio, Sturminster Newton
Cut Mill
June 10, 2008 at 4:00 am (Location)
Tags: Cut Mill, Dorset, Sturminster Newton
Just upstream from Sturminster Newton, grain has been milled on the site of Cut Mill for possibly 2000 years. An article by Roger Guttridge in the Dorset Life Magazine tells its chequered history.
Read the full story here
Sturminster Newton, Dorset 1831
September 24, 2007 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, Location)
Tags: Dorset, Sturminster Newton
A Description of the town of Sturminster Newton, Dorset, England as described by Samuel Lewis in A Topographical Dictionary of England, Published in London in 1831.
