Category: Rural Matters

The Rural Matters section is a special section sponsored and reserved for the local CPRE.

The CPRE or Campaign to Protect Rural England is a charity set up to help protect the rural countryside.

In this section you will find articles mainly by Rupert Hardy, Chairman, North Dorset CPRE. There are ocaisonally guest writers but always from the CPRE.

We like that the subject matter is wide and varied, from dark skies, to planning, hedgerow maintenance to Fingerposts.

Always something new and always interesting to read. The CPRE’s main aim is to help make the countryside a better place for us all to live.

 

Dorset community news

UFOs – or something else tonight?

Richard Miles, Dark Skies Adviser for Dorset CPRE, was chatting with fellow astronomers over a coffee – all missing the fireball shooting overhead! Have you...
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Rural Matters

EXCLUSIVE interview with Rupert Hardy and the most haunted house in England. Probably.

Another exclusive interview just for podcast listeners this week - Terry has a fascinating conversation with Rupert Hardy from the CPRE about the 'rooftop...
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Rural Matters

Rooftop panels versus solar farms

Rupert Hardy, chairman of the North Dorset CPRE, takes a long look into the case for solar panels on roofs or in fields North Dorset...
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Local History

All buttoned up

Rupert Hardy, chairman of the North Dorset CPRE, has been exploring the long history of the Dorset button It all goes back to Abraham Case,...
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Rural Matters

Hedgerows – are they our overlooked climate heroes?

Hedgerows have inexplicably been left out of the climate change action plan, says Rupert Hardy, chairman of North Dorset CPRE Last year we wrote about...
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Local History

The most professional of amateur archaeologists

A visit to Martin Green’s remarkable Down Farm Museum is highly recommended, says Rupert Hardy, chair of North Dorset CPRE Martin Green may farm 260...
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