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April issue of The BV is here!

Welcome to April’s BV – where fire station closures meet the farmers' Golden Buzzer...

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The BV magazine – our home is in the Blackmore Vale, our heart is rural Dorset

A Short History of Dorset’s Seaside Arcades from Penny Falls to Pocket Screens

There's a particular sound on Weymouth seafront once the summer crowds have gone home. Coins inch forward on a sliding shelf, hang over the...

5 Ways To Enjoy The Great Outdoors In Dorset This Autumn

As the nights draw in, it can be easy to just curl up on the sofa and wait for winter to arrive. However, autumn...

The BV becomes Dorset Life – a new chapter begins

If you’ve been reading The BV for a while, you’ll know we’ve never stood still for long. What began in 2020 as a local,...

North Dorset writer publishes new book on Britain

Dorset author Harry Bucknall has published a new book charting a 6,500-mile journey across Britain.A Road for All Seasons, released on 19th March, follows...

A Short History of Dorset’s Seaside Arcades from Penny Falls to Pocket Screens

There's a particular sound on Weymouth seafront once the summer crowds have gone home. Coins inch forward on a sliding shelf, hang over the...

Meeting Mr Hardy: a famous man and his infamous dog

Fanny Charles tells the story of one of the world’s most famous – notorious – pets, who died 100 years ago this year, and...

Name that village …

Last month’s mystery postcard was successfuly named quite swiftly on Facebook – it was Cowgrove, just outside Wimborne!This month Barry has offered a clue:...

Sydling St Nicholas in focus

The following photographs are a selection from a collection of 47 images preserved and shared by the Dorset History Centre. They offer a rare,...

A cruel father found guilty in 1905

Southern Times and Dorset County Herald - Saturday 07January 1905Charles Stay, a tramp, was charged with wilfully exposing three children, Charles, 16, Elizabeth, 11...

Churchill’s secret army, part II

Secret civilian networks, hidden transmitters and chalk-marked raids reveal how Dorset prepared for invasion in the shadows, writes Rupert Hardy During the Second World War,...
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Death Announcements

Farewell to Adrienne Howell

IF Mere had a 'national treasure' it would surely...

Angela Rebecca Teasdale

5th October 1976 – 14th December 2025 Angie passed away...

Sir Tom Stoppard, 1937-2025

PLAYWRIGHT Sir Tom Stoppard, who was born in the...

The Random 19 Questions

Internationally bestselling author Natasha Solomons takes on the Random 19 questions

Natasha Solomons is the author of five novels, including Mr Rosenblum’s List (set in Dorset) and The Novel in the Viola, which was chosen...

TV Judge, Private Chef & Food Writer Philippa Davis answers the Random 19 questions

Philippa Davis is private chef and food writer. She works all around the world cooking for a range of international clients including celebrities, royalty...

Charlie Waite: frame by frame

The legendary landscape photographer talks about acting in Nairobi, photographing ‘zillions’ of actors, and an ‘obsession’ with nature’s beauty ‘My father began the Berlin Airlift.*...

The BV magazine is a monthly digital publication which launched in August 2020, and it is in no way connected with the original, much-loved Blackmore Vale Magazine (owned by Reach PLC, and which ceased publication early the same year), nor with any other, more recently launched printed publication with a similar name. Never the free paper you pick up from the floor of the petrol station, The BV is the half hour read you spend a weekend coffee with.

Dorset Island Discs

Dorset Food & Drink

There are counties in England with a food reputation that precedes them: Yorkshire for its puddings, Cornwall for its pasties, Kent...

Highlights this year include the annual cheese race – enjoy the spectacle of people racing 23kg cheeses UP Gold Hill –...

‘A super simple supper that I call a transitional casserole: perfect for early spring. It’s not that heavy I-need-the-warmth-and-carbs type, nor...

We have just two months left – the Love Local, Trust Local 2026 Awards close at the end of May! What...

Lizzie Crow is better known to most as Lizzie Baking Bird. From her tiny bakery in West Dorset, Lizzie creates an...

The Love Local Trust Local (LLTL) Awards are officially open for 2026, marking the fifth year of celebrating the outstanding farmers,...

Dorset Farming

Consumers need informed assurance

Farm assurance schemes need to stand up for our...

A £40k cultivator, broken incentives and a hazel hedge

Eye-watering machinery costs and disappearing hedgerow incentives: this spring’s...

Celebrating Dorset, rebuilding trust

We have just two months left – the Love...

After the rain

A very long winter has suddenly been interrupted by...

Two Dorset farmers get the Golden Buzzer

When Jeremy Clarkson’s Farmers’ Choir hit the Golden Buzzer,...

Open Farm Sunday was a fabulous day out

Barbara Cossins, founder of Love Local Trust Local, was thrilled with the success of Open Farm Sunday – but there is work still to...

Dorset Wildlife

Our insect balance sheet is in the red

Few indicators are as revealing as insects. After decades...

Reviving a forgotten boundary in the Dorset hills

Reviving this ancient parish boundary, estimated to be around...

Osprey pair return to Dorset for fifth year

A pair of ospreys central to Dorset’s reintroduction project...

A bee utopia on Pentridge Hill

From a wild hilltop to a suburban garden, Jane...

Public consultation opens on beavers’ return to Dorset

Dorset Wildlife Trust is inviting residents, landowners and businesses...

A bee utopia on Pentridge Hill

From a wild hilltop to a suburban garden, Jane Adams watches the quiet lives of Dorset’s snow leopards: the ashy mining bee From Pentridge Hill,...

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The best walk from DWT Lyscombe | 5.5 miles

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North Chideock to Golden Cap and Seatown | 6.8miles

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Martin Down via Toby’s Bottom 

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There are lots of routes up Hambledon Hill, but...

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