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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