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A Dorset Village – Winterborne Zelston

Ken Ayres takes his camera to a spot in the Winterborne Valley described as ‘as rustic and picturesque spot as will be found anywhere in Dorset’

Bridge Cottage, next to St Mary’s Church, has a wonderful aspect

DOROTHY GARDINER, author of Companion into Dorset, visited Winterborne Zelston twice, once in April 1936 when she wrote: ‘I had never seen Winterborne Zelston, which is the centre of the Dorset County Council smallholdings, under normal conditions, but a stream running down the middle of the…

 

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