Nether Compton
Clive Hannay in one of North Dorset’s most charming villages
Published in February ’20
WE ALL HAVE our lists of favourite Dorset villages, and anyone who has visited Nether Compton must surely include it in theirs. It is blissfully quiet, being basically on the road to nowhere. Its golden stone, mostly quarried locally but yielding nothing in its attractive colour to the more famous Ham stone, glows in the sun. And the assemblage of buildings around the village green gives a satisfying feeling of a compact community. Those buildings around the green also give off an air of antiquity, which is slightly spurious as the green …
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