Country diary: Bagber, Dorset
The river Lydden rises in the chalk near Buckland Newton and flows for 12 miles, mainly through green north Dorset fields, to where it joins the Stour near the hamlet of Bagber, a mile or two outside Sturminster Newton. A straight road takes you across...
Country diary: Somerset
The wintry scene at Christmas had been still and silent, the millpond solid ice, but now there was the sound of water rippling along the gullies and tumbling down the waterfall where the stream is diverted to make the mill leet. The little river Cam ri...
Country diary: Dorset
The roads down to Dorchester follow the rivers Cerne and Piddle through narrow valleys between steep-sided ridges. Villages are strung out along the way and sometimes the river is channelled through a roadside gully. On our way to Plush, a small settle...
