Category: Local History

The local History section is a collection of fascinating North Dorset history articles featured in the BV magazine.

In this section we present each of Roger Guttridge’s ‘Looking Back’ columns. These columns tell the often-forgotten stories of local heroes, villains, characters and their places within the Blackmore Vale.

Also Roger’s ‘Then & Now’ comparisons – how the Blackmore Vale looks now compared to the same spot perhaps 120 years ago.

Also featured is Paul Birbeck’s column – a Blue Badge local guide based in Sherborne, Paul examines various local places and shares their social history.

All these columns give a fascinating insight into the history of the Blackmore Vale.

Local History

The Reddlewoman | Looking Back

Roger Guttridge recalls a colourful character from old Dorset Thomas Hardy fans will remember a character in The Return of the Native called Diggory Venn,...

Editorial team - 10 October 2020

Local History

The Original Blackmore Vale Magazine’s early years | Looking back

As one door closes and another opens, Roger Guttridge looks back on the Blackmore Vale Magazine’s early years Sipping a pint in his local one...

Editorial team - 11 September 2020

Local History

Sturminster Newton’s Market Cross | Then and Now

It’s been home to a pump, a horse trough, market stalls and parked cars, but now the roadside spot at Sturminster Newton’s Market Cross...

Editorial team - 10 September 2020

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Bucked in the Yarn

Editorial team - 11 September 20240

Three small Somerset villages had a huge impact on global exploration and trade – Rachael Rowe talks to Professor Terry Stevens “Nothing much ever happened...

Dorset Politics

Pay the farmers for … farming

Editorial team - 18 September 20240

My background, prior to entering politics, is in small-scale commercial rooftop solar. Not the 50MW utility-scale type project being proposed for near Bradford Abbas....