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Weymouth Bay from Overcombe - Dorset / January

Overcombe - a couple of miles north east of Weymouth.

 

At the beginning of the c20th there was a golf course and the painter John Constable had his honeymoon here.

 

In the field north of Bowleaze Coveway road are the remains of the C4th Romano-Celtic Temple and in 1928, an important hoard of late 4th century Roman coins was unearthed.

 

Overcombe is the principal location for Thomas Hardy's 1880 novel 'The Trumpet-Major', set during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Uploaded on January 14, 2021
Taken on January 10, 2021