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The Best Attractions In Whitchurch Canonicorum

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The Tank Museum

Stonehenge

Wookey Hole Caves

Lulworth Cove

Avebury Stone Circle

Hawk Conservancy Trust

Whitchurch Canonicorum or Whitechurch Canonicorum is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, situated in the Marshwood Vale 5 miles west-northwest of Bridport. In the 2011 census the parish—which includes the settlements of Morcombelake, Ryall and Fishpond Bottom—had a population of 684.In the 899 will of King Alfred the Great it was left to his youngest son Æthelweard, and in 1086 in the Domesday Book, the village was recorded as Witcerce.On the northern edge of the village is the Church of St Candida and Holy Cross. It is noteworthy as containing the only shrine in Britain to have survived the Reformation with its relics intact,...
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The Best Attractions In Whitchurch Canonicorum

1. Shrine of St Wite, Whitchurch Canonicorum, nr Bridport, Dorset Whitchurch Canonicorum
2. Stonehenge Amesbury
Stonehenge is a prehistoric monument in Wiltshire, England, 2 miles west of Amesbury. It consists of a ring of standing stones, with each standing stone around 13 feet high, 7 feet wide and weighing around 25 tons. The stones are set within earthworks in the middle of the most dense complex of Neolithic and Bronze Age monuments in England, including several hundred burial mounds.Archaeologists believe it was constructed from 3000 BC to 2000 BC. The surrounding circular earth bank and ditch, which constitute the earliest phase of the monument, have been dated to about 3100 BC. Radiocarbon dating suggests that the first bluestones were raised between 2400 and 2200 BC, although they may have been at the site as early as 3000 BC.One of the most famous landmarks in the United Kingdom, Stoneheng...
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3. Hawk Conservancy Trust Weyhill
The Hawk Conservancy Trust is a bird park and conservation charity that cares for and displays birds of prey. It is located in Weyhill, Hampshire, England, near to the A303 road and the town of Andover. Founded as a zoo by local farmer Reg Smith and his wife Hilary, the park was incorporated as the Hawk Conservancy Trust in 2002. It is also the site of the National Bird of Prey Hospital, a veterinary hospital that takes in injured birds of prey.
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4. The Tank Museum Bovington
The Tank Museum is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about 1 mile north of the village of Wool and 12 miles west of the major port of Poole. The collection traces the history of the tank. With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the largest collection of tanks and the third largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world. It includes Tiger 131, the only working example of a German Tiger I tank, and a British First World War Mark I, the world's oldest surviving combat tank. It is the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment and the Royal Armoured Corps and is a registered charity.
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5. Wookey Hole Caves Wookey Hole
Wookey Hole Caves are a series of limestone caverns, a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England. The River Axe flows through the cave. It is a Site of Special Scientific Interest for both biological and geological reasons. Wookey Hole cave is a solutional cave, one that is formed by a process of weathering in which the natural acid in groundwater dissolves the rocks. Some water originates as rain that flows into streams on impervious rocks on the plateau before sinking at the limestone boundary into cave systems such as Swildon's Hole, Eastwater Cavern and St Cuthbert's Swallet; the rest is rain that percolates directly through the limestone. The temperature in the caves is a constant 11 °C . Th...
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6. Lulworth Cove West Lulworth
Lulworth Camp is a British Army base that is home to the Armoured Fighting Vehicle Gunnery School and runs the Lulworth Ranges on the southern coast of Dorset, England. It is part of Bovington Garrison and is located on the Purbeck Ridge between the villages of East and West Lulworth. The camp lies immediately southeast of the road junction between the B 3070 and B 3071 and about a mile northeast of Lulworth Cove.
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7. Avebury Stone Circle Avebury
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary pagans. Constructed over several hundred years in the Third Millennium BC, during the Neolithic, or New Stone Age, the monument comprises a large henge with a large outer stone circle and two separate smaller stone circles situated inside the centre of the monument. Its original purpose is unknown, although archaeologists believe that it was most likely used for some form of ritual or ceremony. The Avebury monument is a part of a larger prehistoric landscape con...
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Whitchurch Canonicorum Videos

Bridport, Dorset. UK - Snow - 1st March 2018

Bridport Dorset UK - Snow.
Camera - Panasonic DMC-FZ200
Software - CyberLink Photo Director 8

Dorset: 13th Chideock Ploughing Match

Action from several angles of the 13th Chideock ploughing match held in West Dorset on Sunday, 20th October 2013, on land at Doghouse Farm rented from the National Trust's famous Golden Cap estate by the Chideock thatcher Dave Symonds. The annual contest began as a way for local ploughmen - and ploughwomen - to have a go at competing without the pressures of taking part in a much bigger event. The first year saw 10 entrants. This year there were 41, and 38 turned up on the day. It's possible the missing three were put off by the weather forecast, which was for heavy rain and great gusts of wind all day long. As it turned out, three downpours round about the middle of the day did mean that ploughing had to be stopped early. But still, quite a lot got done and there's some fine tractors to be seen at work in this video.

The match was judged under Society of Ploughmen rules, with points awarded for Opening, Start, Seed Bed, Firmness, Uniformity, Finish, Ins & Outs, General Appearance and Straightness of the whole plot.

Among the contestants was Dave Symonds' nephew Mark Symonds, who appears at the end of the video discussing his chances in the Open 3 & 4 Furrow competition.

We were keen to catch up with Mark, partly because he was willing to have a GoPro camera attached to his head and his tractor, but also because he is Captain of the Bells at the church of St Candida and Holy Cross in Whitchurch Canonicorum. Dave Symonds is Captain of the Bells at St Giles' church in Chideock.

In the background, you can hear the hymn 'We Plough the Fields and Scatter', which was sung during the harvest festival celebrations in the church at Whitchurch Canonicorum at exactly the same time as the ploughing match, and recorded there simultaneously.

All of this footage was filmed as part of the A Tale of Two Bell Towers project, which is documenting the year after bell restoration projects took place in both Whitchurch Canonicorum and Chideock. You can find out more about the project on this YouTube channel:

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Hemingford Abbots Flower Festival takes place 26/27 June 2010. All welcome; 26 gardens open with many other attractions and events. Bring the family.

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