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Here is just a small selection of
some of the delightful places and attractions you can get to within 30-40
minutes drive time from Greygles. |
St. Andrew’s, the 14th century church next to the old manor
house at Bingham’s Melcombe – a 15 minute stroll across the fields
from Greygles. |
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Milton Abbey – Impressive abbey (www.miltonabbey.co.uk/abbey.htm) and public
school 5 minutes drive away |
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Cerne Abbas (www.cerneabbas.org.uk) – The famous rude
giant |
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Sherborne (www.westdorset.com) – The prettiest of
nearby towns. Two castles, an ancient abbey, and lots of antique shops and
up-market boutiques. |
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Dorchester (www.westdorset.com) – County town of
Dorset. Many places of interest: County Museum, Military Museum, Tutankhamen,
Dinosaurs, Judge Jeffries’ Bloody Assizes. |
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Maiden Castle (www.theheritagetrail.co.uk) –
Britain’s largest hill-top Iron Age fort is still today a massive
defensive construction you would be scared to attack. |
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Jurassic Coast (www.jurassiccoast.com) – The stretch from
Purbeck to Chesil Beach is close to Greygles and part of the 200 mile Dorset
and Devon coast recently declared a World Heritage Site for both its beauty and
its fossils. The latter provided the basis of modern geology. |
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Athelhampton House and Gardens, Puddletown
(www.athelhampton.co.uk) – One of the finest
15th century buildings in Britain, with lovely gardens. Only 10
minutes from Greygles. |
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Minterne Gardens (www.visitourgardens.co.uk/gardens/mintern.htm)
– Another of the many wonderful examples in the region of the
gardener’s art.
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Weymouth (www.weymouth.gov.uk) – Britain’s first
major seaside resort under the patronage of George III at the end of the
18th century, it is now a bustling port and holiday destination with
an attractive seafront sweep of Georgian buildings. It is also the access point
for the Isle of Portland – castles, lighthouse, stone quarries and
sculptures.
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The Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum in Tolpuddle
(www.tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk) –
commemorating six individuals in the 1830s, persecuted for trying to start an
agricultural labourers’ union – seen as the pioneers of British trade
unionism.
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Clouds Hill* near Bovington – The last
home of T.E Lawrence (‘Lawrence of Arabia’); maintained as a museum
by the National Trust
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The homes of Thomas Hardy: The cottage* in
Higher Bockhampton where he was born and spent his childhood; Max Gate* in
Dorchester (www.thomas-hardy.connectfree.co.uk where he
wrote many of his most famous novels. Both are open to the public and run by
the National Trust.
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The Tank Museum, Bovington (www.tankmuseum.co.uk) - Watch the army
practising with tanks, learn about the history of tank warfare, and see plenty
of these behemoths of the battlefield.
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Abbotsbury – A beautiful small old town
(www.abbotsbury-tourism.co.uk) near the coast
with a Swannery, ruined abbey, Smugglers’ Barn, and tropical gardens
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* Details can be found in
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/historicproperties.
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