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

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Memories of Toller Whelme

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Dorset memories

Furze Lane, Beaminster

My folks live in Beaminster, and I also did in the early 1980s, and remember Furze Lane. The lane goes up from the Bridport Road across country to the Posy Tree at Mapperton. Although it has changed now, i.e. widened, as it is now suitable for vehicles, I think that the building on the left could be the farm buildings at the bottom of the lane.

Hann Family

I don't have a memory as such, but a lot of my family were born and bred in Beaminster, which I had a very brief visit to in 2009, I found it a very nice little village and would loved to have been able to stay longer and trace some of my family haunts and maybe been able to have come across people who would have been related to folk of that era, maybe they could have told me something of past times there and maybe my family. I now live in Western Australia, so will possibly not get back there again.

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

Evacuee

I have happy memories of Corscombe. Having been evacuated from Southampton at the age of eight years. I do remember attending the small school a short distance from where I lived in a small house that had been converted into two living quarters
I have not been back to Corscombe since those wartime days.

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.

Childhood In Powerstock And Eggardon

Powerstock was my local village from 1951 to 1963. We lived at Kings House Farm at the foot of Eggardon Hill. My father Eddie Whitaker farmed (the hill rented and his 13 acres) for 12 or so years before moving to Somerset. I have visited with my family several times over the years and stayed at the Three Horse Shoes pub on one occasion, there I met one of my peers from school and caught up on people and places from the past. These visits ignihted fond memories of the past together with periods of acute anguish as only can be felt most keenly in the childhood experience. I remember cycling to school - always late! - and flying down the steep hill from Kings spurred on by brotherly challenge not to touch the brakes until the very last bend at the bottom (Wetley). It is now obvious, with the wisdom of years, that we were preserved from harm by the grace of God, because with narrow single track roads... Read more

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