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Chideock photos

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Chideock maps

Historic maps of Chideock and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis.   View all Chideock maps

Chideock map

Historic map of Chideock

Dorset map

Illustrated Victorian map of Dorset

Chideock map

Historic Map of any Chideock postcode

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Chideock books

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Dorset Revisited Photographic Memories
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Dorset Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28

Dorset Villages Photographic Memories
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Chideock books
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Memories of Chideock

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Dorset memories

The Love Family

My grandfather William Love was born at the cottage attached to the butcher and slaughterhouse at the foot of Love Lane. This Lane was named after his father (my great-grandfather). William Love worked at the Moore's bakery for 30 years. I have never lived in this area and would love to hear any memories anyone may have. My father was Howard... [more]

Shared on 01 April 2009 by Valerie Guppy.

My grandparents and visits to them

My grandparents William and Amelia Love lived in Ryall. My grandmother purchased the cottage they lived in on her marriage. They had three sons Wilfred, Howard and Edward. My father Howard died in 2007. I don't think the village has changed that much since I used to visit as a child when I used to play with... [more]

Shared on 21 April 2009 by Pauline Love.

Same family.

My dad was Cyril Henry Sprake, I have memories of travelling to Eype to see my gran, she was Day then. As grandad and uncle Robert died during the war, I am interested in knowing which of the local Sprake families was grandad's.
I too think of the area as my spiritual home, I have said to my family that I... [more]

Shared on 05 September 2008 by Leslie Sprake.

Eype Cottages

My Mum, Nesta Smith (nee Sprake) was born in No. 3 Eype Cottages and lived there up until she married my Dad (Ron Smith) in July 1949.  They met when he was stationed close by with the Royal Army Service Corp.  They used to do their courting by the old phone box apparently!  Dad proposed to Mum up at Golden Cap... [more]

Shared on 19 June 2006 by Julie Gillibrand.

My Dad

My Dad
The church at Whitchurch is a lovely place to wander and muse. My father died out shooting at Mapperton when I was 11, and what a terrible shock it was.

What is nice for me now, 25 years later, is to still be able to walk down through the village past the 5 Bells pub, or over the... [more]

Shared on 21 September 2008

Waiting to go to Bahrain 1966

This is me, pushing my daughter Allison, with my mother Phyllis Carey. I was staying with my parents prior to joining my husband at RAF Muharraq, Bahrain in the summer of 1966. Recessed next to Hoskins the Butchers is the Congregational Church (now the United Reformed) where I was christened, attended Sunday School and Junior Church and was married. Our... [more]

Shared on 23 January 2010 by Pamela Williment.

East Street 1965

The lady with the shopping bag and wearing sunglasses in this picture is my mother, Hilda Hounsell. She had either visited the library or her sister who lived at the bottom of Easst Street.

Shared on 19 January 2010 by Michael Hounsell.

Visitation Convent

I have no connections with Bridport or the Visitation Convent but found the thread of messages detailing school life highly absorbing; I do know of another individual of note who may qualify as becoming "famous" (message posted 03/10/2009 by Mr Duffy).

I think he was sent from the Midlands as a boarder in 1927 at seven years of age, through... [more]

Shared on 24 November 2009

Extracts From Chideock & Dorset books

Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Chideock, inspired by Frith photos.

Dorset Revisited Photographic Memories

Chideock (always pronounced Chiddock) takes its name from the castle of the de Chideocks, built around 1379. Little remains of this medieval fortification, and a later manor house was 'slighted' in 1645 during the Civil War.

This is an extract from Dorset Revisited Photographic Memories.
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Victorian and Edwardian Dorset Photographic Memories

Situated in one of the most picturesque valleys in this part of the county, and spelled as Cidihoc in the Domesday Book, this peaceful view of the village street lined with well-built cob and sandstone cottages precedes the arrival of the motor vehicle, and the transformation of this thoroughfare into the busy A35. On the left is the mainly Perpendicular church of St Giles,... [more]

Dorset Villages Photographic Memories

Carter and cart-horse head up Main Street in a view across to the plateau of Langdon Hill (centre). Behind them is the gable- end of the Farmery and Hope Cottage. Japonica Cottage (right of the telegraph pole) has a 16th- century stone mullioned window. Lilac Cottage is next door (right). Ashford Cottage is opposite (left), and Rose Cottage and Foss Cottage are below it. James Foss, who died in 1902, bequeathed £200 towards the upkeep of the parish... [more]

This is an extract from Dorset Villages Photographic Memories.
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