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Evershot, c.1960
Photo ref: E128021
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More about this scene

This lovely view, typical of this area, shows the landscape where the author Thomas Hardy set The Woodlanders. These woods around Melbury Park lay at the heart of the Fox-Strangways family lands of the Earls of Ilchester. The taller rooftops and chimneys deep in Evershot village (right) are those of the Summer Lodge Hotel, the elegant former home of Lord Stavordale, heir to the Ilchester earldom.

A Selection of Memories from Evershot

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Evershot

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If this has sparked a memory, why not share it here?

Happy memories of Bill & Ruth Sweet. Landlord and landlady back in the 60's/70s. Ruth only recently deceased having reached a grand old 100 years of age. My mother used to clean and I tagged along in the school holidays. Recently made contact with daughter Anna and indirectly brother Jon. Happy days!
This story written by Bee Snow 1928-2007 (nee Barbara Whitaker) about her childhood in Evershot, Dorset. Reared with three sisters, four brothers, four terriers and a jackdaw, I insisted by the age of five in accompanying this mixed mob on twice daily walks my mother decreed. We ran wild and free over the Dorset countryside. I supose largely tolerated because my father was the local GP. We were really ...see more