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Sydling St Nicholas

Ken Ayres photographs a village which gives its name to one of Dorset’s loveliest small rivers

The parish church of St Nicholas is mainly of the 15th and 16th centuries, although the chancel was rebuilt in the 18th century. Archaeologists believe that there may have been a medieval bell-casting pit within the church.

 

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