Tarrant Monkton
John Goode celebrates perhaps the most picturesque of the villages strung out along the Tarrant Valley
Published in March ’22
The Langton Arms serves both as the village pub and as a magnet for visitors
THERE are over 60,000 thatched properties in Britain, nearly a tenth of which are in Dorset – more for its size than any other part of the country, between four and five per square mile. Sometimes it seems as though a high proportion of those properties are in the village of Tarrant Monkton and its associated hamlet of Tarrant Launceston, just up the valley. Certainly its goodly …
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