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©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
Dist:0.4km<br/>Old footbridge and road bridge over the River Winterborne, on the track that leads to Millmoor Farm.
©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
Dist:0.4km<br/>This raised embankment was built in 1992, to protect Sturminster Marshall from flooding.
©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
Dist:0.5km<br/>The River Stour is a substantial river which runs 96 km (59 miles) from south east Somerset and west Wiltshire through north Dorset and the Blackmore Vale into east Dorset.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>This is the site of the former watering hole where sheep came to drink by the drovers when taking them to the local markets.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>The early 17th century thatched cottage stands on Back Lane.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>A very attractive pair of thatched cottages in King's Street, their eyebrow thatch doing funny things to the shadow of the telegraph pole.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.5km<br/>The tree is around 300 years old and stands within an area of unimproved grassland. The area is open to the public and is administered by Dorset County Council.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>The cottage, on Back Lane, does not appear to be old but it has a corrugated iron roof.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>The short footpath passes between houses to reach another area of village green.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>As long as humans have farmed the land, sailed the seas and contemplated their place in nature, the wind has played a key role in their speculations. It was interpreting the wind's changing direction that helped our ancestors predict the coming weather and survive.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>Weather vanes have always been more than just a wind direction device. Created by skilled craftsman, there is true artistic expression in the varied designs. Initially wood vanes were carved by carpenters or furniture makers, and iron, copper and tin ones were forged by the local blacksmith or tinsmith. In the 19th century weather vanes started to be mass-produced from moulds.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>Greenspace and Telephone box in the centre of Sturminster Marshall
©Steve Rigg
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking at the village green from its southwestern corner. King's Street is to the right (and behind camera) while Back Lane is to the left.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.5km<br/>In front of the oak tree to the right of the phone box is a commemorative stone for the coronation of Edward VII; presumably the tree was planted then.
©Mike Faherty

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