Category: A Country Living

Dorset’s master of strings

Dorset luthier Jeremy Walsh on listening to the wood, a double bass jigsaw, holding a $15m Stradivarius and Friday night rave music In his self-built...

From farm to festive feast

Tracie Beardsley meets a Dorset farmer gobbling up success by farming free-range turkeys – even some vegetarians are tempted! Mark Chilcott has been thinking about...

Dorset’s keeper of the past

Rob Gray: history-loving boy, former precious painting courier and now Wimborne’s museum curator cataloguing 40,000 pieces of Dorset’s past Rob Gray is squirrelled away in...

The 46-year tractor ride

Tracie Beardsley catches up with C&O’s Matthew Holland - in between him selling tractors, fighting fires, making honey and selling cider! When the excited 16-year-old...

The man who reads the stones

The art of dry stone walling: master craftsman Tom Trouton talks to Tracie Beardsley about finding a stone’s timeless connection to the landscape Tom Trouton...

The Red Post priest

It’s 30 years since the Church of England first allowed women priests. Tracie Beardsley meets the Rev Jane Williams, vicar of six Dorset parishes On...

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Princess Royal visits Dorset riding centre championing young people

A local equestrian centre that helps young people build confidence and life skills through horses has been praised by both the Princess Royal and...

Name that village …

We had fewer correct guesses of last month’s mystery postcard which was of East Stour. We’re thinking his pick this month is the hardest...

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