Cranborne
Ken Ayres takes his camera to a village that has lost some of its importance but none of its charm or interest
Published in January ’21
In Highways and Byways in Dorset (1906), Frederick Treves wrote of Cranborne, ‘A struggling, absent-minded little place, it has apparently small purpose in life.’ At that time he was probably right because both the turnpike and the railway had passed by what had been a bustling small town with an important market. Today it has re-invented itself as a thriving, attractive village.
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