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The Official Gillingham & Shaftesbury Pre-Show Magazine 2025 is here!

We’re proud once again to be working with the Gillingham & Shaftesbury Show team to produce the official pre-show magazine – your essential guide...

equestrian

When dressage meets a speed round

Working Equitation welcomes every horse – part dressage, part obstacle course, all excitement, and possibly the most inclusive equestrian sport While The Sass Queen is...

Beefy courses and blue skies at Kingston Maurward

A beautiful park, well-designed undulating courses and a warm welcome for cobs with fabulous moustaches at the British Eventing weekend As far as settings for...

Basil goes to Bramham

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DORSET HISTORY

FROM THE BV...

Dorset Food & drink

Heather’s lemon squares

for its lemon cakes. Combining the fresh zestiness of the lemon with a subtle hint of marzipan really grounds the bright lemon flavour. The...

Wildlife & farming

Wildlife within reach

Ospreys and beavers … Jane Adams explores how livestream webcams bring wildlife wonders to everyone, even if you can’t leave the house I’ve spent more...

Carbon offsets: a distant dad’s apology

Buying rainforest offsets isn’t cutting it – how about UK firms funding their local farms to fight emissions and grow food sustainably Accountability: ‘the fact...

From borne to Billingsgate

Once a trade secret and loved by the UK’s top chefs, world-class trout from Dorset’s quiet Winterborne valley are being championed by a local...

Summer butterflies

From peacocks to painted ladies, discover and where to find Dorset’s most delicate, dazzling insects in their full seasonal glory Nothing quite captures the essence...
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July’s BV is here 🙂

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Editor's special picks for July: Eddy Scott is back in Dorset – and just four months after being blown up and losing two limbs in...
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A COUNTRY LIVING

Bud, bloom, berry … repeat

As boys they picked blueberries on a Dorset farm and now the Benson brothers blend tradition, flowers and cafe culture at the plantation Little did...

In the company of bees

From CPR on the kitchen floor to spinning honey in a shed, Stephen Toop found peace, healing and purpose in beekeeping on a Dorset...

Big bad wolf proof

Forever fronds

A binding narrative

dorset walks