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Owned by the National Trust. Painted in the estate colour, Kingston Lacy Red.
©Clive Perrin
National Trust path on their Kingston Lacy Estate, alongside a stream which drains into the nearby River Stour.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.1km<br/>Wooden stile on the Stour Valley/Hardy Ways, leading through light woodland from Pamphill to the Stour Valley.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking along the electricity transmission line just as it approaches a change in direction. Somehow we do not allow them to mar the picturesqueness of this lovely little spot!
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.2km<br/>The numbering in Pamphill seems very haphazard and I am certain the number of properties does not reach five hundred – nevertheless this cottage's address is 534 Pamphill, Wimborne.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.2km<br/>A superb country pub, featured in the 2009 Good Beer Guide. Tiny bar with wall benches, larger lounge with open fire, upper room & garden. Cask beers on offer at my visit: Palmer's Dorset Gold & Quercus Prospect. A former bakery; owned by the National Trust. http://www.ukcider.co.uk/wiki/index.php/RG_2007_June
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.2km<br/>Hill named after the pub to the left [[1053828]], overlooking the Stour Valley, with the towers of Wimborne Minster visible in the distance.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking up at the commemorative stone in the façade of [[1369138]].
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.2km<br/>Not a permanent feature of the green outside [[1369138]], but this maypole has been erected presumably for a summer fête or somesuch.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.2km<br/>This beautiful cottage is one of several almost identical cottages in this area all being part of the estate of Kingson Lacy and owned by the National Trust. This shot was taken from the entrance to The Vine Inn. See [[47059]] by Clive Perrin
©Derek Voller
Dist:0.2km<br/>A wonderful building of 1698, still carrying out the function for which it was built – see [[1369144]].
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.2km<br/>Obtrusive lines through an area of great attractiveness; part of a route from Lytchett Matravers to Three Legged Cross.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.2km<br/>Pamphill CE VC First School, overlooking Pamphill Green, with an old extension behind, and a modern extension behind that. A stone plaque above the entrance records "To God & ye poor / The pious & Charitable gift of / ROGER GILLINGHAM / of the Middle Temple, London, Efqr. / This free Writing fchool & ye. Almfhoufes adjoining / Were built by ALDRICH SWAN Clerk & Rector / of Kington magna in this County & one of the / Minifters of this Parifh & Purfuant to the Gift / & truft of the Sayd Roger Gillingham / Ao. Do. 1698." Listed by English Heritage, http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=107285&mode=quick For information about the current school, see http://www.pamphill.dorset.sch.uk/About Us.htm
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.2km<br/>This inscribed stone plaque is set above the entrance to the old school and (with modern spelling) reads: 'To God & the poor. The pious & Charitable gift of ROGER GILLINGHAM of the Middle Temple London, Esqr. This free Writing School & the Almshouses adjoining Were built by ALDRICH SWAN Clerk & Rector of kington magna in this County & one of the Ministers of this Parish & Pursuant to the Gift & trust of the Said Roger Gillingham. A.D. 1698.'
©Mike Searle
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©Christopher Hilton

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