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Dorset / Peta Whaley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Westcountry historyPublication details: Bristol [UK] : Venton, 2002, ©1977.Description: 1 online resource (149 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1841508403
  • 9781841508405
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dorset.DDC classification:
  • 942.3/3 21
LOC classification:
  • DA670.D7 W46 2002eb
Other classification:
  • 942.33
Online resources:
Contents:
Preliminaries; Contents; Ch. 1: Shaftesbury and Alfred the Great; Ch. 2: Corfe and Edward the Martyr; Ch. 3: Sherborne and Sir Walter Raleigh; Ch. 4: Corfe Castle and Lady Banks; Ch. 5: The Western Coastal Towns and the Stuarts; Ch. 6: Dorchester, Judge Jefferies and the Bloody Assizes; Ch. 7: Marshwood Vale and the Wordsworths; Ch. 8: Portesham and Nelson's Hardy; Ch. 9: Tolpuddle and its Martyrs; Ch. 10: Sturminster Newton, Winterborne Came and William Barnes; Ch. 11: Wimborne St. Giles and the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury; Ch. 12: Stinsford, Higher Bockampton and Thomas Hardy
Ch. 13: Lawrence of ArabiaBibliography;
Summary: Thomas Hardy was born there, Sir Walter Raleigh chose to live there, and Lawrence of Arabia is buried there. Dorset has so many great figures shaping its history, from eminent leaders such as Alfred the Great to notable writers such as Wordsworth, it could have nothing but an impressive and fascinating story.
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Prev. ed. published in 1977 under the title Dorset through history.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-148).

Print version record.

Preliminaries; Contents; Ch. 1: Shaftesbury and Alfred the Great; Ch. 2: Corfe and Edward the Martyr; Ch. 3: Sherborne and Sir Walter Raleigh; Ch. 4: Corfe Castle and Lady Banks; Ch. 5: The Western Coastal Towns and the Stuarts; Ch. 6: Dorchester, Judge Jefferies and the Bloody Assizes; Ch. 7: Marshwood Vale and the Wordsworths; Ch. 8: Portesham and Nelson's Hardy; Ch. 9: Tolpuddle and its Martyrs; Ch. 10: Sturminster Newton, Winterborne Came and William Barnes; Ch. 11: Wimborne St. Giles and the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury; Ch. 12: Stinsford, Higher Bockampton and Thomas Hardy

Ch. 13: Lawrence of ArabiaBibliography;

Thomas Hardy was born there, Sir Walter Raleigh chose to live there, and Lawrence of Arabia is buried there. Dorset has so many great figures shaping its history, from eminent leaders such as Alfred the Great to notable writers such as Wordsworth, it could have nothing but an impressive and fascinating story.

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