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20 August 2011, 1.50 pm. The crowds watching the Bournemouth Air Festival are buzzing after a spectacular display by the RAF aerobatic team, the Red Arrows. The team is returning to its temporary base at Bournemouth International Airport. Making a tight turn, Red 4, Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging, blacks

Still rather an isolated town, Beaminster was even more isolated before the building of the Horn Hill tunnel almost 200 years ago. To the north, in fact, it was almost cut off by the 600-ft Horn Hill. There was a road over the hill, but it was precipitously steep.

This 200-year-old notice is in St Andrew’s church in Trent. Most people know what clogs were, but pattens? They were wooden platforms with straps that fastened them over shoes. Often an iron ring was set in the sole to raise the wearer above the mud, and as

We all have our favourite holiday spot, and kings of England are no different. George III’s was Weymouth. He visited first because sea bathing had been recommended by his doctor (a Weymouth man) as a cure for his recurring mental illness, and George became very fond of the town,

The centre was founded over 30 years ago by a teacher at Cranborne Middle School. His pupils helped build an accurate copy of an Iron Age roundhouse and since then further replicas have been added, from the Stone Age to the Viking era. Today, the centre is run by Dorset

In the course of its 30-mile journey from Evershot to Poole Harbour, the River Frome passes through many attractive spots, but none matches this ford. Easy to get to and on a public bridleway, it is a popular alternative to the beach for paddling and generally messing about by

After his six wives, Henry VIII may be best known for shutting down the monasteries in around 1540 and pinching their land. It changed social life in England and the landscape, as many of the monastic buildings were knocked down or left to decay. This was the fate of Cerne