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For at least 200 years, some sort of ferry has carried passengers between Sandbanks and Shell Bay across the narrow entrance of Poole Harbour. When a road was first built along the Sandbanks Peninsula after World War 1, it became necessary to provide a ferry that could carry motor traffic,

Eggardon is an Iron Age hillfort with three banks and two ditches enclosing most of its twenty acres. That factual description does not convey the varied beauty and haunting atmosphere of the hill. Each approach, from the four points of the compass, is completely different. From the top, the views

Monks had a hard life, working for their community and the glory of God. The many church services they attended might have been a chance of a rest, but no: the monks had to spend most of them standing up. The monastic authorities did relent by allowing misericords, or mercy

The pond has never dried out naturally, which is remarkable as the water table is 300 feet below Ashmore, the highest village in Dorset. There may be evidence of a clay-lined dew pond having been here 3000 years ago, or it may have been created by the Romans, whose

Roughly the size of the lower deck of a bus – about nine metres by four metres – Stockwood church is the smallest in Dorset. That is not its only claim to fame: the dedication to St Edwold is unique. Most of the church is about 700 years old. It was declared

You can’t fight a war without shells, and until the end of World War 2, the main explosive used to propel shells was cordite. So the factory at Holton Heath, where cordite was produced for the Royal Navy, was a prime target for Luftwaffe bombers. Raids on the factory

How lucky we are to live in the age of the welfare state, yet there are still those who fall through the cracks and cry out for rescue. For nearly 70 years the Pilsdon Community has offered a refuge, spiritual support and practical help to those in crisis or on