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.
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.