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Filford maps
Historic maps of Filford and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Filford maps
Filford photos
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Stoke Abbott| Netherbury| Symondsbury| Pymore| Whitchurch Canonicorum| Bettiscombe| Melplash| Marshwood Vale| Chideock| Bradpole| Morcombelake| Bridport| Mangerton| Broadwindsor| Marshalsea| Beaminster| Eype| Seatown| Marshwood| Bothenhampton| Loders| Walditch| Lamberts Castle| West Bay| Kittwhistle| Shipton Gorge| Powerstock| Charmouth| Burton Bradstock| Hawkchurch
Filford area books
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Memories of Filford
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Dorset memories
Robert Elwell
I am looking for information on Robert Elwell or family in Stoke Abbott around 1610.
Robert Elwell sailed on the ship Recovery in March 1633 to the Massachusetts Bay in America.
Historic Families
I am searching for my ancestors from Netherbury the family names are Toogood, Tolley, Spraklen, Meech, Clarke, Hoskens, Maish, Cox. These are names going back to the early 1700.
Netherbury has held my interest since I was a child and at last I am going to be able to see it for myself armed with the names of my ancestors.
It would be so very good to know if anyone living in Netherbury is able to help with my search.
Tolley Family History
I've yet to visit Netherbury where my Tolley ancestors were based. I'm interested to hear about the Tolley family shoemaker who moved to Surrey sometime in the 70's/80's. They lived in a part of Netherbury named Braddicks. My earliest connection with Dorset was hearing my father, George Tolley, sing what is presumably a rather bawdy Dorset folksong - Old John Braddl'em! Julia Tolley
Triggering Memories.
We were clearing the last furniture from my mother's bungalow a few weeks ago. A heartbreaking task, having lost her in April. Behind the last set of drawers, on the floor, I found an old sepia photograph. It showed a group of children with some adults, outside a building which must have been a chapel or a school. From the clothes they wore, the photo would have been taken in the early 1920s.
Later, I searched the internet for clues, looking especially at the areas where my mother grew up - Salway Ash in particular. So I found the Francis Frith site.
There were no clues for Salway Ash, but I came to the Pymore site. One photo. Surely it couldn't be! Yet it was - the cottage my grandparents lived in when we were young! The memories flooded back.
We lived in the Midlands for some years, although I was born in Walditch. We were so lucky in that we were able to... Read more
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 the children on a farm just down from my grandparents and cousins. I last visited Ryall in 1994 to pay my respects at the burial site of my grandparents in Whitchurch Canonicorum St Wyte cemetary.
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 lovely rolling fields, to the church yard where his grave lies amongst the rustling of the trees, birds chatting to each other, gentle sunshine making patterns on the grass as it peeks through the trees, and a general sense of timelessness and peace that I have found over recent years to be so soothing.
What a special place!!
Chideock School
I started school at the age of five following in the footsteps of my brother John and sister Pam and walking each day to school from Quarr Lane, sometimes we used the footpath starting at Frogmore farm and coming out above the football field which was in the field next to the Council houses. Mrs Smith was the infant teacher and Mrs Hurst the senior teacher. I remember my mum taking me to the dentist that came to the school, I think lots of children were crying so my mum took me for a walk down the road until it was my turn, but what I had done I don't remember. Sometimes we used to go home on the bus, it cost a penny to ride to the top of the hill. A few years ago my brother and sister and I walked through the village on a Sunday afternoon, the traffic was certainly heavy compared to what we remember it being. We went to the beach at Seatown and... Read more
