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Desert Island Dorset

It is the turn of Richard Baker to describe the eight memories of the county that he would take with him to a desert island


Wareham Quay
The visitors who relax and take in the view from this popular area of Wareham are perhaps unaware that in 876, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, 120 Viking longships were moored here. Impossible, one might think, but the low-lying area stretching towards Stoborough could well have led to the …

 

 

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