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Get your feet ready for stomping!

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Fancy a night of festival style footstomping, dancing and singing? It’s going to be quite an evening when Old Time Sailors visit The Exchange in Sturminster Newton for the first time on Friday 8th September! You will be sailing back to the 19th century for an immersive experience – seafaring music performed in a way you have never seen before.
The motley crew and their plethora of traditional and eclectic instruments will take you back to the time of clashing tankards and drunken debauchery – and you’ll wonder why we ever left!
The Old Time Sailors have recently taken Glastonbury and Bestival by storm, as well as headlining at festivals throughout the south west.
Kicking off the Sturminster Newton Cheese Festival weekend, guest real ales will be on sale, as well as the full bar, and as dancing is very much encouraged, only the raked seating will be out! There’ll be plenty of space to sing and dance like a drunken sailor as the band perform centuries-old folk and shanty songs.
Fancy dress is encouraged – pull out your best seafaring garments, me hearties, and come join the festivities!

  • Tickets from Box Office: 01258 475137 or stur-exchange.co.uk.
    Usual price £18:
    SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £14 – just quote ‘BV Magazine’.

August’s BV is here!

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Laura
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The BV is quite the jam-packed treat this month – from the biggest local issues to the maddest local history, from a guide to the Gilingham & Shaftesbury Show to the story of the Dorset Axemen. Plus politics, farming, wildlife, art, photography, a Dorset walk, pages of What’s On … and there’s a Peach & Pecan summer cake to make too. Frankly, it’d be rude not to …

  • Dorset Council has approved a controversial 190-acre solar farm in the Blackmore Vale – we look at the details
  • The village of Henstridge is facing 182 new homes – just a few miles down the road to Stalbridge which is currently seeing it’s fifth major development proposal. With access via the already problematic and narrow A357, there are strong concerns about road safety, infrastructure and the impact on the village character
  • Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show is back! The rural day out is a celebration of community, countryside and tradition – and it’s a feast for the eyes, ears, and taste buds!
  • In the Trethowans farming section, Andrew Livingston doesn’t have a soapbox, but he happily clambers onto a milk crate to look at the unfair struggle between agriculture and supermarkets
  • Did you know red kite were once a common sight in Elizabethan London? The bird is a popular conservation success story, says Dorset Wildlife Trust’s Jack Clarke, but is still at risk from poisoning
  • If you’re attending Dorset County Show this year, you might want to stop and see the Dorset Axemen. Mick Percival went from wood-chopping hobbyist to invincible, record-breaking champion – and now he gives spellbinding showground performances
  • After four decades behind the cameras on some of the UK’s biggest TV drama and film productions – including Paddington, Dr Who, Call the Midwife, Poldark and Grand Designs – Simon Priestman and his wife Karen decided it was time for a change in lifestyle. They bought bought a boutique vineyard in Dorset – and promptly created an award-winning wine

A guided tour of Duropolis, Jane Goodall’s Random 19 and ‘when package holidays go wrong’!

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Laura
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Two brilliant interviews in this episode (I’m allowed to say that because Jenny and Terry do all the work!) – the first with Rachel from Citizen’s Advice, and the second with an archaeology expert discussing Dorset’s long-running archaelogical dig affectionately known as Duropolis. And we”re thrilled to have Dr Jane Goodall’s Random 19 answers, too.

In an engrossing interview, Paul Cheatham, the geophysical survey director responsible for the archaelogical digs at Dorset’s ‘Duropolis’, effectively gives us a personal guided tour of the site that was discovered in 2007, and what the team have found in the subsequent 12 years of digs as they explore the hillside. 
He admits that everywhere the team survey they find a new settlement to explore – whether Iron Age, Bronze Age or Roman, from the Mesolithic to the late Roman era, the Dorset hillsides are covered in remnants of early communities. During the medieval period people moved into the valleys and finally left the high grounds, but  counter to perceived wisdom, Paul explains that early man did not in fact choose hilltops for defence purposes – and he also talks Jenny through Iron Age fridges.

Rachel Rogers provides some specific advice around what to do when a package holiday goes wrong! Talking to Terry, she provides an interesting look at the work of Dorset’s Citizen’s Advice – no longer the CAB, the organisation does a lot more than is widely understood.

Admittedly a chimpanzee-studying lady in Africa may not have been everyone’s childhood hero, but for editor Laura – an animal-obsessed girl growing up in a big Essex town – the life of her dreams was being lived by Jane Goodall, the renowned ethologist and inspiring conservationist. Even at 89 Dr Jane Goodall remains a powerhouse of action, and her answers to this month’s Random 19 questions are everything you could hope for – from Lord of the Rings to an evocative stream of memories of a life lived in the wild (there’s also a controversial opinion on biscuit dunking).

Chef/Cook Required | Virginia Ash Pub

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The Virginia Ash are looking for a chef/cook to join the team.

Experience preferred but not essential as training will be provided.

You must be able to work evenings and weekends.

The position can be full or part time.

Wages and hours to be negotiated

Please contact Kimberley on: 01963 363 868

or [email protected]

What’s on at the Exchange August – Sept 2023

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All the good things that are happening at the Exchange Sturminster Newton in August and September

BOX OFFICE: 01258 475137
BOOK ONLINE 24/7: WWW.STUR-EXCHANGE.CO.UK

Beautiful North Dorset circular walk from Okeford Fitzpaine | 7.5miles

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Laura
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If you’re looking to find the true rural heart of North Dorset, the untouched landscape that feels unchanged for centuries, then this might be the walk you’re looking for. 

Following paths tucked into the rolling countryside that sits below the more glamorous ridge walks, you’ll avoid any big climbs, and yet manage to enjoy almost constant stunning views.

Desite a lack of any hill climbing the far-reaching views on this walk are unbeatable

We took our time with this walk, and it felt like a mini holiday. We didn’t see another person (other than a couple enjoying their own back garden as we strolled past with a wave), and felt like we were lost in Enid Blyton’s Dorset.

The route follows old green lanes and winds through the thick centuries-old hedges that are bounding the small, oddly-shaped fields so typical of old Dorset.

The footpath through the wonderful wild meadow belonging to the Barkhill Shepherd’s Huts

A few paths were very overgrown – we walked in early July, and a sturdy stick was soon collected to beat back the nettle and bramble at regular intervals.

You can just see from the post marker on the left of the image that this is a bridleway…


Stiles through hedges were rarely sturdy and well kept (seemingly typical in North Dorset!), but mostly they did exist and were entirely usable. The ones crossing streams were the most solid, thankfully!

Ibberton church has a wonderful view of Bulbarrow


A couple of times we couldn’t see the exit to a field until we were literally right on top of it – trust the map, the stiles and bridges ARE there, they’re just buried in the hedgerows!

It’s easy to miss the footpath sign on this wall (it’s on the far right) in Okeford Fotzpaine right at the start of the walk!


Parking is easy in Okeford Fitzpaine village – and there’s a lovely village shop as well as a pub for a post-walk ice cream or a pint!

Farm Required

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Merry Moos Farm Project is a social enterprise trading as a community interest company. Our aim is to establish a working farm and animal sanctuary in Dorset that serves the community by encouraging individuals to benefit mentally and physically from experiencing farm life, and to provide animals a haven of love and safety.

Farm Required

Merry Moos farm project CIC not for profit is looking for a fifty to seventy acre farm with livestock buildings site in Dorset.

f you think you can help, or know someone who can.

Please drop us an email to: [email protected]

Pike Roy

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Of Todber. Passed away peacefully on July 11th at Dorset County Hospital aged 81 years

Dearly loved partner, Dad, Grandad and Great Grandad.

Cremation has already taken place.

A celebration of Roy’s life will take place at Todber church on August 10th
at 2.30 pm

No flowers please, but donations if desired sent directly to Dorset &
Somerset air Ambulance

Exclusive reduced tickets offer for BV readers! | The Old Time Sailors at The Exchange

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Exclusive reduced tickets offer for BV readers!

Fancy a night of festival style footstomping, dancing and singing?

It’s an evening with a difference when Old Time Sailors visit The Exchange in Sturminster Newton for the first time on Friday 8th September! You will be sailing back to the 19th century for an immersive experience – seafaring music performed in a way you have never seen before. The motley crew and their plethora of traditional and eclectic instruments will take you back to the time of clashing tankards, and drunken debauchery.

The Old Time Sailors have recently taken Glastonbury and Bestival by storm, as well as headlining at festivals throughout the South West.

Kicking off the Sturminster Newton Cheese Festival weekend, guest real ales will be on sale, as well as the full bar, and as dancing is very much encouraged, only the raked seating will be out! There’ll be plenty of space to sing and dance like a drunken sailor as the band perform centuries-old folk and shanty songs.

Fancy dress is encouraged – pull out your best seafaring garments, me hearties, and come join the festivities!

Tickets from Box Office: 01258 475137 or https://stur-exchange.co.uk/programme/old-time-sailors/

Usual price £18 – BV reader SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £14; just quote ‘BV Magazine’.

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