Wimborne St Giles
Fabian Carstairs visits a favourite Cranborne Chase village. Colin Varndell took the photographs.
Published in January ’22
In high summer, the village is a mass of greenery
THE scent of may blossom flowed in through the window as I drove over Cranborne Chase, a 400-square-mile stretch of chalk plateau that was protected deer-hunting ground from the time of William the Conqueror. It is now an AONB, but as recently as the beginning of the 19th century, the Lord of the Chase still imposed tolls on the roads to prevent carts upsetting deer during fawning season. It is ancient…
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