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Friday August 10

Section 17. KIMMERIDGE TO SOUTH HAVEN POINT. Miles: 20.9. Grading: Severe then moderate

Start time and location
Could you please report for registration at the Café in Kimmeridge Village at 8am.
The walk will commence at 8.30am.

Parking
Plenty of parking avaialble at start points.

Bus Services
Kimmeridge is a very difficult place to reach by bus, and you will need to reach it by car or taxi. Even better is to stay with someone from our Annual Guide who offers a ‘pick up and drop’ service to the coast path!
Access to Poole is much easier and you may be able to utilise the fantastic X53 service, which operates several journeys each day between Poole-Wareham-Weymouth-Lyme Regis and Exeter. You can obtain further and confirmation of bus services by contacting Traveline on 0870 608 2608 www.traveline.org.uk

Trains
Main line services by South West Trains run from Bournemouth and Poole to London and Weymouth. Services by Virgin Cross Country to principal towns and cities via Birmingham run hourly from Bournemouth. We recommend that you always contact National Rail Enquiries on 08457 484950 before travelling.

Maps
Ordnance Survey Landranger series (scale 1:50 000) Number 195 Bournemouth & Purbeck.
Ordnance Survey Outdoor Leisure series (scale 1:25 000) Number 15, Purbeck and South Dorset.

General Information
Kimmeridge: car park, toilets and marine centre.
Kimmeridge village (over 0.5 mile/1 km northeast from coast path): post office with shop and licensed restaurant/café and public telephone.
Swanage: accommodation, shops (including a chemist), pubs, cafés, toilets, car parks and public telephones.
Studland: accommodation, pub, toilets and car park. Shop and telephone in village 0.25 mile (400 m) west of coast path.
South Haven Point: restaurant (seasonal), public telephone, toilets and car park.
North Haven Point (Sandbanks): shops, toilets, public telephone and car park.
Poole: accommodation, shops (including a chemist), pubs, cafés, toilets, car parks and public telephones.

FERRY
(Mouth of Poole Harbour) All year round. Daily every 20 mins.
Bournemouth-Swanage Motor Sandbanks 0700 - 2300 hrs
Road & Ferry Company, Shell Bay, Shell Bay 0710 - 2310 hrs
Studland. BH19 3BA. Christmas Day every half hour.
Tel: 01929 450203
www.sandbanksferry.co.uk
Shell Bay/Sandbanks Ferry: Tel: 01929 450203: www.sandbanksferry.co.uk
Please be aware that servicing of the ferry usually takes place in November, so when planning your walk, please check your ferry details thoroughly. Full details of the ferry operating times for the year are to be found in the South West Coast Path Association’s current Annual Guide, and we always recommend that you confirm the times with the operator direct.

TAXI SERVICES
Wareham area: Miles Taxis 01929 553091; Richard’s Taxis 01929 556575; Station Cars and Taxi 01929 550123; Thunderbay Travel 01929 472500 and Wareham and Purbeck Cars 01929 480485.
Swanage area: Purbeck Cars 01929 425783 and Swanage Associated Taxis 01929 422788.
Bournemouth/Poole area: (all begin with 01202) 666333; 767676; 667799; 556677 and 512512.

TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE
Swanage: The White House, Shore Road, Swanage, BH19 1LB. Tel: 01929 422885
Poole: Tourism Centre, The Quay, Poole, BH15 1BW. Tel: 01202 253253

The Route
This is usually regarded as the final section of the South West Coast Path and is some 20 miles (33 km) long: often long distance walkers will overnight at Swanage or another location. It is a section of contrasts – stable and unstable cliffs, erosion and deposition, a seaside resort and lonely stretches. Indeed, for those who keep strictly to the coast there is no shop or place of refreshment in the first 10 miles (16 km). Nevertheless, wherever there is road access, evidence of increasing visitor pressure will be apparent. The best approach to Kimmeridge is, of course, the Lulworth range walk, but as this is not always available, an alternative may have to be sought.

Throughout this section local distinctiveness is added to the signage by what are lovingly known locally as ‘Purbeck Tombstones’. These are small tombstone-shaped slabs of Purbeck stone inscribed with directions and waymarks; they generally take the place of traditional fingerpost signs and plastic disc waymarks. In the rapid growing season they can become obscured before routine cutting takes place.

LANDWARD APPROACH TO KIMMERIDGE

Kimmeridge is 4 miles (6 km) through the lanes from Corfe Castle, which is on the Poole-Wareham-Swanage bus route, but some buses serve Kingston and it is a better prospect in terms of both scenic quality and avoiding traffic, to start from there. If time is an issue, consider a local taxi.

Take the road westward past the Scott Arms until after 1 mile (1.6 km) you reach a sign reading Private Drive. Here you turn left, keeping some sheep pens on your left, bear right and follow the track which in less than a mile brings you up to the tumulus on Swyre Head, at 666 feet (203 m) the highest point in Purbeck, and with consequently the best view. On a clear day this extends from St Aldhelm’s Head along to Bindon Hill, hiding Lulworth. There is a permissive path down to the coast at Rope Lake Head, but to reach Kimmeridge you head north-west along the ridge for 1.5 miles (2.4 km). Where you emerge into a lane, head briefly downhill to a T-junction and over the stile just opposite. The path takes you down to Kimmeridge Church.

Behind the church is a row of seven headstones of exceptional interest. Four of them are of coastguards, all of whom died at the age of 26, three of them ‘in the execution of their duty’ during the 1830s, while the fourth is something of an enigma in that the date appears to be 1811, which was 11 years before the coastguard formed.

From the church there are two possibilities: either down the road past the post office (refreshments available in season) and past the thatched stone cottages until where the toll road starts to go left, go over the stile and down to the cottages at Gaulter Gap, or alternatively, go through the farmyard and take the waymarked path through the fields again, aiming for Gaulter Cottages. Down to the left of the first field is an overgrown osier bed, a relic of Kimmeridge’s all-but-vanished shell-fishing industry. The two paths link up by the service road to the oil well, while a right of way runs in front of the cottages to join the coast path.

Coastal Approach from the Army Ranges

The old lifeboat house was built into the cliff some 300 yards (274 m) inside the range boundary. It was abandoned in 1896 and now only the foundations remain. Before the cottages at Gaulter Gap is evidence of more modern industry – a nodding donkey. For a brief period until the Wytch Farm field was developed this was Britain’s most productive on-shore-oil-field (Wytch Farm on the southern shore of Poole Harbour is now the most productive on-shore-oil-field in Europe!).

The cottages were built in the middle of the 19th century to house the workers of a company formed to extract organic products from the blackstone, but soon bankrupted. At low tide it is more instructive to take the next brief section along the beach. The cliffs are composed, appropriately enough, of Kimmeridge Clay, a blue-grey shale, easily eroded and believed to be the source-rock of North Sea Oil. It is not confined to Kimmeridge but the deposits here are at their most extensive – anything up to 800 feet (244 m). They were laid down in Jurassic times when dinosaurs ruled the land. Ammonites are frequent.

Among the strata traversing the shale are the much more resistant cementstone bands, which give rise to the Kimmeridge ledges, and the blackstone (not visible along here) – a 3-foot thick band of bituminous oil-shale. Pieces can be found on the beach and can often be ignited with a match to give off an offensive smell. Before the Romans came the Celts were turning this on wooden lathes to produce bracelets which were then coated with beeswax, there being a reconstruction of such a lathe in the County Museum at Dorchester. Under the Romans, countrywide distribution was achieved since some of the bracelets can be seen in the Vindolanda Museum near Hadrian’s Wall.

Before the access road is reached it is worth diverting briefly to visit the Dorset Wildlife Trust Marine Centre where static displays and live underwater footage can be viewed.

KIMMERIDGE TO SWANAGE

Follow the route around the cliff edge to reach the access road to the quay and take the steps leading up to the Clavel Tower. Built as a folly and now ruinous, standing on the cliff edge it is in peril of falling into the sea – plans are in hand to dismantle it and rebuild it further inland.

The coastguard cottages can be seen behind the trees. As late as 1885 Kelly’s Directory recorded that the Chief Officer was changed annually, an interesting survival of a practice employed to reduce collusion with the smugglers of fifty years earlier.

From the Clavel Tower follow the cliff edge path eastwards with care: after periods of bad weather be prepared for minor cliff falls and the slippery nature of the clay sub-soil.

Some 400 yards (366 m) past the tower a cutting marks the site of a tramway used in the extraction of the blackstone, which is at the top of the cliff here, but the eastward dip of the strata is such as to bring it down to sea level within a mile. About 0.75 mile (1200 m) further is a trip for the unwary – a piece of 30 inch gauge railway track almost buried in the ground, probably was part of the Swalland Farm anti-tank range from World War II.

Back in 1973 a phenomenon occurred briefly along here more readily associated with Burning Cliff some 10 miles (16 km) to the west – spontaneous combustion of the oil-shale. At Rope Lake Head the ledges are dagger-shaped and pointing at St Aldhelm’s Head. The ridge coming down from Swyre Head has then to be gained – a brief taste of what is in store. The path up the valley to Encombe House is marked ‘Strictly Private’: back in Edwardian days Sir Frederick Treves wrote with approval that it had been closed ‘owing to the atrocious conduct of the trippers’.

HOUNSTOUT CLIFF

From the Encombe valley continue steeply up to Hounstout cliff. As you reach the top is a fine stone seat inscribed ‘Michael Byren 1923 –1981’. Just beyond a footpath leads back to ‘Kingston 1.75 miles’, the marker stone will tell you. The views from the summit are superb, especially to Chapman’s Pool below; the only caution being if it is clear, do not be misled by the apparent proximity of St Aldhelm’s Head; it will take more effort than you might think.

You start the descent and come to a long flight of steps, about 150 of them, and shortly afterwards to a stile and marker stone (this one points inland, indicating ‘Hill Bottom 0.75, St Aldhelm’s Head 2.75’).

Although it appears that there is a more direct route through the undercliff below Emmetts Hill, do not be tempted to follow that route across the intervening ravine. Dramatic landslides have rendered the low level route of the coast path to be unsafe and you should now take the official inland loop diversion around Chapman’s Pool: walkers have been known to have become trapped in the treacherously deep mud hidden in the undercliff.

At the marker stone just beyond the foot of the Hounstout steps, cross the stile by a fingerpost that indicates ‘Permissive path to beach’ and ‘coast path – Hill Bottom 0.75’. Although seemingly going the wrong way (inland) take a route slightly west of north across the field to a gate and stile on an embankment. Turn right through the gate and in 65 yards (60 m) bear eastwards onto a tarmac track. In about 109 yards (100 m) bear left off the tarmac onto a grassy/stone track that bears inland. This track later becomes tarmac and you cross a stile next to a metal gate across a track. This is the very aptly named Hill Bottom.

In a few yards turn right and go down a dip past Hill Bottom Cottage. Ignore the first gate on the right and pass through the metal gate that may be closed across the track to come almost immediately to a fingerpost sign and Purbeck tombstone waymarks on both sides of the track. Here turn sharp right onto a stony track and over a masonry bridge to pass through a bridle gate beside the full size field gate.
Within a few yards fork left off the main track up the grassy slopes. On the ascent you will pass a marker stone for walkers heading down the hill to later, higher up the path, to one with a waymark direction half right. However do not bear right immediately but continue up to the skyline heading to the right of the bushes ahead. Then bear right follow the fence and wall on your left to the crest of West Hill. Turn sharp left at the marker stones following the wall along the top of the hill. In about 100 yards (90 m) or so you will reach another marker stone which says ‘St Aldhelm’s Head 1.25’ ahead and a left turn to ‘Renscombe 0.5’. This can be a useful inland link to the car park there and on to Worth Matravers. The views which are good soon become splendid and on clear days you will see back to Portland and the varying shades of the different rocks along the coast. Continue for about 200 yards (185 m) to just before the next stile.

There is a monument to the Royal Marines. Its fine setting, neat, well-kept little garden and thoughtful message gives pause for thought, and it is a moving place in which to have a break. The inscription reads: ‘The table and benches have been built by the Royal Marines Association Dorset Branch to the memory of all Royal Marines killed 1945-1990 Royal Marines School of Music Deal; Northern Ireland; Falklands; Middle and Far East. Rest awhile and reflect that we who are living can enjoy the beauty of the sea and countryside’.

After crossing the stile comes nearly 0.5 mile (800 m) of airy spectacular walking along the almost sheer escarpment of Emmetts Hill.

Next comes the steep descent into the valley before St Aldhelm’s Head. At the bottom is another link path inland to join the track out from Renscombe Farm to St Aldhelm’s Head. The two marker stones are at the point that the old lower coast path used to join the current - the bad news is that you now have a massive climb up the steps in front.

ST ALDHELM’S HEAD

Once the 350 foot contour is reached the path runs level past a memorial seat then the coastguard lookout and chapel and St Aldhelm’s Head (St Alban’s Head to the locals). Here for the last 800 years has stood St Aldhelm’s Chapel, four-square to the elements and with walls over 3 feet thick, commemorating the first bishop of Sherborne. Legend has it that it was originally occupied by a priest who prayed by day for the safety of passing mariners, and by night lit a brazier in the roof to warn shipping. Just below the area of white water reveals the dangerous tide-race, extending up to a mile off-shore.

The view is somewhat marred by the remains of quarrying and wartime occupation. Once round the head the view opening up should be of the much-quarried wall of limestone stretching to Anvil Point; the best seams for building being about half-way down the cliff face. A noteworthy feature on the inland scene soon becomes apparent – this is the strip lynchets or medieval cultivation terraces. These are evidence of an attempt to grow cereals on inferior land, due either to increasing population pressure or loss of fertility of older soils.

For the nest mile (1.6 km) to Winspit the coast squeezes its way between a fence and the cliff edge so extra care is needed. Plans are in hand for improvements.

At Winspit one of the last quarries to be worked, surviving until about 1945. Now that Tilly Whim caves at Swanage are closed to the public, the galleries here are the easiest to explore. This is the most westerly site of the early spider orchid; emblem of the Dorset Wildlife Trust, and in May careful searching among the remains of the buildings might reveal a few plants. It can be more easily found in the two fields west of Dancing Ledge. In June look out for the bee orchid. In late summer, two butterflies to look out for on the limestone are the Lulworth skipper, smaller and darker than the small skipper; and the chalkhill blue – larger and greyer than the common blue.

There is a track up to the village of Worth Matravers, a mile inland. It has a seasonal café, but the Square and Compass does not provide accommodation or food. A circular walk from Swanage can be taken by making use of the Priest’s Way, initially a rather muddy ridge walk until following suburban pavements into Swanage.

Continuing on the coast path you pass the point where the East Indiaman ‘Halsewell’ was driven ashore in 1786 with the loss of 168 lives. The bodies were buried without ceremony at the nearest convenient point, as was the custom of those times, but the exact spot has long been forgotten. The tragedy had a profound effect on the young Charles Dickens and he later wrote an account of it called ‘The Long Voyage’ to be found in his ‘Reprinted Pieces’. Even great writers get overtaken by events as he wrote ‘not an atom of it was ever afterwards seen’. Following the emergence of wreck-diving there are some minor relics to be seen in the county museum at Dorchester.

After 0.5 mile (800 m) there is an inland loop of a few hundred yards to avoid the sheer face of Seacombe Quarry. A further 0.5 mile (800 m) brings you to the quarry unnamed by the Ordnance Survey but known to climbers as Headbury Quarry.

Note that there is not the slightest prospect of road access here – the only way out for the stone was for it to be lowered by winch (or whim) into barges and transferred to sailing vessels in the calmer waters of Swanage Bay. The next quarry reached in Dancing Ledge, a popular spot in season, reached by footpath from Langton Matravers. At high tide the waves break (or dance?) over the level platform, in which a makeshift swimming pool was carved out for the boys of a local school.

From here it is 2 miles (3 km) to the lighthouse at Anvil Point, the half-way stage being marked by a pair of measured mileposts (6080 feet, a nautical mile, from the other pair just past the lighthouse). There is a number of alternative paths in this section but the best route is probably to keep to the lower paths near the cliff edge. Half a mile (800 m) short of the lighthouse you enter the Durlston Country Park, the scene of a successful attempt to encourage public access without detriment to the wildlife.

The pock-marked landscape on the downs above is the result of small-scale opencast quarrying of an earlier age. Once the dry valley beyond the lighthouse has been crossed the Tilly Whim caves are reached. Golden samphire flowers around here in late summer, but the caves have been closed to the public because of rock falls.

Continuing along the path, now lined with tamarisk, a masonry wall is reached which provides the best spot for bird-watchers. In season fulmar and kittiwake are common, guillemot are a possibility and with just an outside chance of puffin and razorbill. Oil pollution is a very real threat to the three auks, but at least the ledges are out-of-bounds to rock-climbers during the breeding season.

The next item of interest is the 40 ton Great Globe, commissioned by George Burt, the eccentric Victorian property developer. To quote the author of Black’s Guide, ‘round about it, and on the way down, will be seen relief maps of the district and other geographical lessons set forth in stone, so that this is a holiday spot to be eminently commended to parents and school-masters. Moral as well as scientific instruction is not wanting’. Presumably the former category was aimed at the ‘atrocious trippers’.

Once round Durlston Head the path climbs steeply, providing a view of the unstable cliffs stretching to Peveril Point. Avoid a right turn just before the top, where you will find the Durlston Castle, another of Burt’s creations.

According to Sir Frederick Treves it combines ‘the architectural features of a refreshment buffet, a tram terminus and a Norman keep’, but if you’ve been working up a thirst all the way from Kimmeridge, the appearance will be a secondary consideration. Following the designation in 2001 of the Dorset and part of East Devon coasts as a World Heritage Site, this castle is being renovated as a ‘Gateway’ information and visitor centre. Refreshments are now available at the Lookout Café at Durlston Castle from Easter to October and at weekends and during school holidays in the winter.

The Information Centre for Durlston Country Park, situated inland of the car park, is open during the season and sells interpretative leaflets. To interpose briefly a little more geology, 25 million years ago the African tectonic plate collided with that of Europe, causing the Alps to be thrown up. The effect on Purbeck was less dramatic but the originally horizontal strata (with younger rocks on top, of course) were tilted almost vertical; so that as you proceed northwards you cross the geological ‘grain’, traversing progressively younger rocks.

After leaving Durlston Castle follow the broad stony path through the woods above Durlston Bay for about 0.5 mile (800 m) to reach a barrier and sign. From this point the coast path has been permanently diverted following a massive cliff fall. Turn left on the path to reach Durlston Road at a kissing gate. Turn right up the road then right again into Bellevue Road to reach the grassy open space to Peveril Point.

At the top of the cliff was the site of the Beckles mammal bed, where in 1856 were found the remains of 19 primitive mammals, contemporary with the dinosaurs, the largest such find anywhere in Europe.

From the coastguard hut on Peveril Point there are two possibilities depending on the state of the tide, the low tide route being seaward of the old coastguard cottages, lifeboat house, clock tower (transplanted from the approach to London Bridge but losing its clock in the process) and a new residential development on the site of the former Grosvenor Hotel. In bad weather or high tide take the road.

SWANAGE TO SOUTH HAVEN POINT

Swanage has all the facilities appropriate to a medium-sized holiday resort. It was fortunate that the growth of its tourist trade coincided with the decline of the stone industry. Swanage Bay results from the erosion of the soft Wealden Beds.

At the telephone box at the north end of Swanage sea front, sea state permitting, you may prefer to keep along the pedestrian promenade to the end and then walk 200 yards (185 m) along the stony beach turning up some steps to the official route. At high tide and in bad weather you have to leave the seafront on the main road (Ulwell Road) and where it bears left into a one-way system continue ahead into Redcliffe Road. At the sub post office turn sharp right into Ballard Way and at the end do not be put off by the signs 'Ballard Private Estate'. Carry forward into the chalet estate and follow signs for the coast path to emerge on to a grassed area on the cliff edge.

A gradual ascent now follows, soon steepening to the slog up the chalk ridge of Ballard Cliff, but the views back over Swanage Bay should be enough compensation. When the path finally levels out it’s worth climbing the few extra feet up to the triangulation point for what can be a splendid view across Poole Harbour. A gently descending mile now follows to Handfast Point.

Here amid the clamour of gulls you can look across the vertiginous off-white chalk cliff to Old Harry Rocks, and on a clear day to the Needles off the Isle of Wight - this was a continuous chalk ridge until the channel broke through perhaps less than 8000 years ago.

After leaving Old Harry the path gradually descends, initially through a wood redolent in late spring with the smell of ramsons or wild garlic. On the approach to Studland village the coast path forks right at a Purbeck tombstone marker and very shortly reaches a fingerpost sign. From here the National Trust has provided a new and more coastal route that avoids the narrow roads through part of the village (but also bypasses the Bankes Arms public house). Turn right here over a timber bridge to descend a stony path to South Beach. Turn left along a terraced path above the beach in front of the beach huts.

On reaching a small seasonal café continue along the beach for some 90 yards (82 m) and look for a narrow path and steps between the beach huts. There is no sign at the time of writing but it is to the left of hut number 60B. Ascend this path to the top of the low cliffs. At the top turn right (or straight on if visiting the Bankes Arms) and follow the path around passing Fort Henry and through a small wood to join the private access road to Middle Beach. Turn right here down to the beach.

FORT HENRY

Fort Henry is the most heavily fortified structure on the south coast and was originally built to defend Studland Bay from invasion. However its claim to fame came in the spring of 1944 when Studland beach was used for Exercise Smash as part of the training of troops for the pending D-Day landing. It was from here that Winston Churchill, General Eisenhower, General Montgomery, Admiral Mountbatten and King George VI viewed the training exercise.

The final 2.5 miles (4 km) of the route run along the beach. Unless it is high tide firm sand can be found along the water’s edge. Maybe we should warn those who do not know that further along part of this is a naturist beach as well as an official long-distance trail. The summer walker attired in shorts does not often feel overdressed but this place is the exception!

The National Trust has provided an alternative route through the Studland Heath Nature Reserve. This starts beyond the café and shop at Knoll Beach and is called the Heather Walk. The route through the dunes is marked by yellow-topped posts; however the naturist area is still in view and the soft sand underfoot is tiring at the end of a long walk. The route rejoins the coast path at Shell Bay some 700 yards (640 m) from South Haven Point.

The nature reserve was established in 1962 to protect the increasingly rare sand lizard and smooth snake. The first stage in plant colonisation of the mobile dunes is their being fixed by fast growing grasses with extensive rooting systems, principally marram. As these decay they provide the humus which enables other plants to establish themselves.

Until the Autumn of 2002, the official finish of the path at the ferry road was undistinguished. Following years of pressure from this Association, there is now an impressive marker incorporating a steel mast and sail and a floor compass. Thanks are due to the efforts of the South West Coast Path Team and the generous donations made by our Association members and others.

A ferry which carries the Swanage to Bournemouth buses makes the short crossing to Sandbanks: buses leave here for Bournemouth and Poole at frequent intervals and Poole railway station is close to the bus station.

At the South Haven Point Ferry you leave the South West Coast Path. You may meet someone about to start to walk the other way round. We know, from those who complete the coast path, their feelings of delight and disappointment, so how about planning your 'other way round' walk?

Shell Bay/Sandbanks

For further information about the ferry see page 18

Alfred Wainwright, at the end of his work on the Pennine Way said; ‘You have completed a mission and achieved an ambition. You have walked the Pennine Way, as you dreamed of doing. This will be a very satisfying moment in your life. You will be tired and hungry and travel stained. But you will feel great, just great.’ Dear reader, just substitute the South West Coast Path for the Pennine Way. We will add whether you have been lucky enough to walk the whole way from Minehead at one go, or simply, as most of us have, in bits and pieces over a period, nonetheless you will be glad you walked and have just finished Britain's longest and finest footpath. It's a longer step than most take in their lifetime!

The South West Coast Path from Plymouth to South Haven Point (Poole Harbour entrance) is now also part of the route of the British section of European Route E9. The British section continues to Dover and is predominantly a coastal walk as far as Portsmouth. The so-called Bournemouth Coast Path and then the Solent Way provide an onward coastal walk across the remainder of Dorset and all of Hampshire to the Sussex Border at Emsworth. The E9 route follows these two paths as far as Portsmouth where it turns inland.

The guidebook for the Bournemouth Coast Path is currently out of print but is being re-written with the view to publication in 2004, but it had not appeared by the time this went to print. A new guide to the Solent Way has just been published and the linear route is included in Pub Walks Along the Solent Way by Anne-Marie Edwards and published by Countryside at £7.95. ISBN 1 853067385.

Prior to the publication of the guidebook for Bournemouth (it also includes Christchurch to Milford-on-Sea) the Association's fact sheet on the route is still available, free to members for a stamped self-addressed envelope from the Administrator.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This article would have been much less comprehensive without access to the resources of the Dorset County Library at Dorchester and the Westcountry Studies Library at Exeter. My sincere thanks to the staff of both.

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