Heathfold

One page for a village: trains, the river, the weather and anything in force today. Nothing anybody has to keep up to date.

18 parishes so far, in Dorset and Somerset. Every page is built the same way, from public feeds, so a new village is a postcode rather than a volunteer.

• BatcombeDorsetA straggle of houses along one lane under the northern scarp of the Dorset Downs, with about 120 people in the whole parish.A Dorset village, 7 miles from Sherborne, 8 from Yeovil.Chetnole station, 3.4 km awaybatcombe.heathfold.uk
• Beer HackettDorsetAbout a hundred people, and too small to be written into the Domesday Book. The church tower is early 15th century under a thorough Victorian restoration.A Dorset village, 4 miles from both Yeovil and Sherborne.Thornford station, 0.9 km awaybeer-hackett.heathfold.uk
• Bradford AbbasDorsetThe abbot's broad ford, on land Alfred the Great gave to Sherborne Abbey. A Roman camp showed through the barley here in the drought of 2010.A Dorset village, 2 miles south east of Yeovil.Yeovil Junction station, 1.8 km awaybradford-abbas.heathfold.uk
• CattistockDorsetHigh in the Frome valley. The poet William Barnes called it elbow streeted, which is still the best account of the village street.A Dorset village, 7 miles east of Beaminster.Maiden Newton station, 1.8 km awaycattistock.heathfold.uk
• ChetnoleDorsetOn Oxford clay at the western end of the Blackmore Vale, about 128 houses, and a station where the train stops only if you ask it to.A Dorset village, 6 miles from both Sherborne and Yeovil. The Wriggle runs through it.Chetnole station, in the villagechetnole.heathfold.uk
• ClosworthSomersetA small parish on the Dorset border that takes in Pendomer and Sutton Bingham, and sits beside the reservoir of the same name. The Domesday Book called it Clovesuurda, the homestead above the valley.A Somerset village, 4 miles south of Yeovil.Yetminster station, 3.4 km awayclosworth.heathfold.uk
• EvershotDorsetThe second highest village in Dorset at 175 metres above the sea, with long standing connections to Thomas Hardy.A Dorset village, 6 miles from Beaminster, 7 from Yeovil.Chetnole station, 3.7 km awayevershot.heathfold.uk
• LeighDorsetAbout 480 people, known as the site of a miz maze, a turf maze that has not survived.A Dorset village, 5 miles south of Sherborne.Chetnole station, 2.4 km awayleigh.heathfold.uk
• LongburtonDorsetAbout 520 people at the western end of the Blackmore Vale. The church keeps the Winston monuments, and it is from that family that the Churchills took the name.A Dorset village, 2 miles south of Sherborne.Sherborne station, 2.9 km awaylongburton.heathfold.uk
• Maiden NewtonDorsetThe one village on this stretch of line where every train stops without being asked.A Dorset village, 7 miles from Dorchester, 8 from Beaminster. The Frome runs through it.Maiden Newton station, in the villagemaiden-newton.heathfold.uk
• Melbury BubbDorsetAbout 40 people under Bubb Down Hill, which once carried a beacon. The church font is carved from an upturned Saxon cross, so its carvings are upside down.A Dorset village, 6 miles from Yeovil, 7 from Sherborne.Chetnole station, 1.1 km awaymelbury-bubb.heathfold.uk
• Melbury OsmondDorsetThatched cottages down a dead end lane to a stream and a ford, in a parish with 34 listed buildings. Thomas Hardy's mother was married in the church, and the village is Little Hintock in The Woodlanders.A Dorset village, 5 miles south of Yeovil.Chetnole station, 2.2 km awaymelbury-osmond.heathfold.uk
• Milborne PortSomersetA Saxon mint town whose market was the most profitable in Somerset in 1086. A lit squib thrown across its fair in 1770 became Scott v Shepherd, a landmark case in the law of personal injury.A Somerset village, 3 miles north east of Sherborne.Sherborne station, 4.4 km awaymilborne-port.heathfold.uk
• Nether ComptonDorsetBurnt by William of Normandy in 1066 and largely rebuilt in the 1880s. Conde Nast Traveler put it among the twenty most beautiful villages in Britain and Ireland in 2020.A Dorset village, 3 miles from both Sherborne and Yeovil.Yeovil Pen Mill station, 3 km awaynether-compton.heathfold.uk
• Ryme IntrinsecaDorsetThe church is one of only two in England dedicated to St Hippolytus. It is 13th century, with a tower and windows added in unusual 17th century work.A Dorset village, 4 miles south east of Yeovil.Yetminster station, 1.8 km awayryme-intrinseca.heathfold.uk
• ThornfordDorsetA shop, a pub, a Norman church, a cricket club and a station, for a village of about 830 people.A Dorset village, 3 miles from both Sherborne and Yeovil.Thornford station, in the villagethornford.heathfold.uk
• TrentDorsetIn Somerset until 1896. Charles II hid at Trent House for several days during his escape to France in 1651, and the church carries one of only three ancient stone spires in Dorset.A Dorset village, 3 miles from both Yeovil and Sherborne.Yeovil Pen Mill station, 3.3 km awaytrent.heathfold.uk
• YetminsterDorsetBuilt almost entirely of honey coloured limestone, which makes it look more like a Cotswold village than a Dorset one.A Dorset village, 4 miles from both Yeovil and Sherborne.Yetminster station, in the villageyetminster.heathfold.uk

Each village is also at its own address, for example chetnole.heathfold.uk. Who built this and why. What it is and is not, in the terms of use. What it keeps about visitors, which is a count of pages and nothing personal, in privacy.