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Egdon Heath, Thorncombe Woods / Puddletown Forest, Dorset
"The untameable, Ishmaelitish thing that Egdon now was it had always been. Civilization was its enemy: and ever since the beginning of vegetation its soil had worn the same antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of the particular formation. . . . The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim." From 'Return of the Native" Thomas Hardy
Yellowham Woods, between Dorchester and Puddletown, impassable at the moment due to fallen tree
Thomas Hardy's Yalbury Hill from Under the Greenwood Tree
Dr Douglas A Strachan (1875-1950) designed this Thomas Hardy memorial stained glass window in1930. It was unveiled by Lady Ilchester. Originally Florence was due to unveil the window but fearful of bad publicity after the publication of Somerset Maugham's "Cake and Ale" published in the September of 1930. In it portrais a young secound wife of a famous author who did very well out of his death. Florence felt that the book was directed at them (the Hardy's) although Maugham always denied the facts.
Set in the south aisle it displays Thomas Hardy's favorite Old Testament story (I Kings, chapter 19 of which Hardy refers to in the poem "Quid Hic Agis?") in which Elijah, robed in purple, listens to the still small voice after the tumult of wind, earthquake, and fire.
Godlingston Heath - Purbeck - Dorset - England - looking towards Poole Harbour.
Agglestone Rock is a sandstone block of about 400 tonnes weight, perched on a conical hill, approximately 1 mile from the village of Studland, south Dorset. Legend has it that the devil threw the rock from the Isle of Wight with the intention of hitting Corfe Castle.
Geology
The rock is an "eroded relic of iron-cemented, Tertiary sandstone, the Agglestone Grit". It used to be anvil-shaped, but has since changed form due to erosion and been toppled.
Visiting the Rock was listed by the Dorset Echo as one of the "25 Things To Do In Dorset Before You Die"
Mythology
" A musing stroll across the heath from Studland, brings you to the Aggllestone, the holy stone (Helig - Anglo-Saxon for holy) hurled by the devil on to the crest of a hillock rising above the peaty waste. Fiends often do dress like angels, and it is certainly hard to detect anything of the devil when the Madonna-blue chalices of that visionary flower, Gentiana pneumonanthe, are open on the heath. But devils did traffic with holy stones in archaic England, for devils were once gods themselves fallen from heaven upon evil days, the days when the usurping Celts looked with dread upon the works of their predecessors. For the Agglestone is a menhir".
Taken from Downland Man by H.J. Massingham Pub 1927 by Jonathan Cape
Thomas Hardy Memorial Window featuring Egdon Heath and his favourite Old Testament story.
Dr Douglas A Strachan (1875-1950) designed this Thomas Hardy memorial stained glass window in1930. It was unveiled by Lady Ilchester. Originally Florence was due to unveil the window but fearful of bad publicity after the publication of Somerset Maugham's "Cake and Ale" published in the September of 1930. In it portrais a young secound wife of a famous author who did very well out of his death. Florence felt that the book was directed at them (the Hardy's) although Maugham always denied the facts.
Set in the south aisle it displays Thomas Hardy's favorite Old Testament story (I Kings, chapter 19 of which Hardy refers to in the poem "Quid Hic Agis?") in which Elijah, robed in purple, listens to the still small voice after the tumult of wind, earthquake, and fire.
Godlingston Heath - Purbeck - Dorset - England
Agglestone Rock is a sandstone block of about 400 tonnes weight, perched on a conical hill, approximately 1 mile from the village of Studland, south Dorset. Legend has it that the devil threw the rock from the Isle of Wight with the intention of hitting Corfe Castle.
Geology
The rock is an "eroded relic of iron-cemented, Tertiary sandstone, the Agglestone Grit". It used to be anvil-shaped, but has since changed form due to erosion and been toppled.
Visiting the Rock was listed by the Dorset Echo as one of the "25 Things To Do In Dorset Before You Die"[2]
Mythology
" A musing stroll across the heath from Studland, brings you to the Aggllestone, the holy stone (Helig - Anglo-Saxon for holy) hurled by the devil on to the crest of a hillock rising above the peaty waste. Fiends often do dress like angels, and it is certainly hard to detect anything of the devil when the Madonna-blue chalices of that visionary flower, Gentiana pneumonanthe, are open on the heath. But devils did traffic with holy stones in archaic England, for devils were once gods themselves fallen from heaven upon evil days, the days when the usurping Celts looked with dread upon the works of their predecessors. For the Agglestone is a menhir".
Taken from Downland Man by H.J. Massingham Pub 1927 by Jonathan Cape
The UW-Arboretum's Curtis Prairie is far from Egdon Heath, and mid-October is a long way from the worst that November has to offer, but on a dark, overcast autumnal day, it's not surprising that Thomas Hardy comes to mind.
We were biking on Military Ridge the other day, when T said that the Dane County countryside around us was "embrowning itself." I thought that was a striking turn of phrase, and she reminded me it was from the opening lines of Hardy's The Return of the Native. Instantly it came back to me in a rush -- the excitement of that time many years ago when I first read my way into Hardy's novel, where Egdon Heath is not just a setting but almost the central character, the vast, unchanging moor that enfolds its residents in its history and timeless rituals.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
Purbeck - Dorset - Southern England.
Studland & Godlingston Heath is designated as one of only 35 "Spotlight Reserves" in England by Natural England in the list of National Nature Reserves in England and is listed as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
The reserve predominantly consists of internationally important lowland heath but also has a wide range of habitats including sand dune, peat bog, alder and willow carr, freshwater lagoons such as the "Little Sea", and 5 km of sandy beach. All six species of native British reptiles are found here including the rare and nationally-endangered Sand Lizard and Smooth Snake.
The Reserve is a notable stronghold of the rare Dartford Warbler which has successfully survived in this corner of Dorset when nearly wiped out elsewhere in southern England by prolonged periods of extreme winter cold.
Ancient History
The Reserve features many prehistoric remains of man's activity in the area pre-dating Roman times, indicated on the OS maps as Tumulus.
This stone stands at the side of a minor road linking Stinsford and Tincleton 2 miles east of Dorchester. It is possibly an old boundary stone but may well be prehistoric and re-worked by the Romans when they built a road close by. It stands 5' high with a circumference of about 4'.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
looking south across Duddle Heath, Puddletown Forest, Frome Valley and in the distance the Purbeck Hills and Dorset Ridgeway
from Rainbarrow, Duddle Heath, Egdon Heath, Puddletown Forest looking down onto Frome Valley east of Dorchester and towards the South Dorset Ridgeway which extends to form the Purbeck Hills
As part of the Thomas Hardy Egdon Heath Project which involves restoration of the heathland, Dartmoor Pony's have been reintroduced to Duddle and Black heath in Thorncombe Woods and Puddletown Forest.
The name derives from an old folk tale which tells of a coachman whose reckless driving caused his coach to leave the old coach road to plunge into the pond in the adjacent field. He, his passengers and his horses were all drowned.
As part of the Thomas Hardy Egdon Heath Project which involves restoration of the heathland, Dartmoor Pony's have been reintroduced to Duddle and Black heath in Thorncombe Woods and Puddletown Forest.
view from Duddle Heath / Rainbarrow across the Frome Valley / Vale of the great dairies towards crossways and the Purbeck Hills, south dorset ridgeway
The name derives from an old folk tale which tells of a coachman whose reckless driving caused his coach to leave the old coach road to plunge into the pond in the adjacent field. He, his passengers and his horses were all drowned.
This stone stands at the side of a minor road linking Stinsford and Tincleton 2 miles east of Dorchester. It is possibly an old boundary stone but may well be prehistoric and re-worked by the Romans when they built a road close by. It stands 5' high with a circumference of about 4'.
Around Sydling and the event site on Saturday.
Photos taken at the White Star Running Giants Head Event centred around Sydling St Nicholas near Dorchester, Dorset, England on 17th and 18th June 2023. We photographed the marathon, half marathon and Chaos Bell Race.
As part of the Thomas Hardy Egdon Heath Project which involves restoration of the heathland, Dartmoor Pony's have been reintroduced to Duddle and Black heath in Thorncombe Woods and Puddletown Forest to suppress scrub regeneration
Godlingston Heath - Purbeck - Dorset - England
Agglestone Rock is a sandstone block of about 400 tonnes weight, perched on a conical hill, approximately 1 mile from the village of Studland, south Dorset. Legend has it that the devil threw the rock from the Isle of Wight with the intention of hitting Corfe Castle.
Geology
The rock is an "eroded relic of iron-cemented, Tertiary sandstone, the Agglestone Grit". It used to be anvil-shaped, but has since changed form due to erosion and been toppled.
Visiting the Rock was listed by the Dorset Echo as one of the "25 Things To Do In Dorset Before You Die"[2]
Mythology
" A musing stroll across the heath from Studland, brings you to the Aggllestone, the holy stone (Helig - Anglo-Saxon for holy) hurled by the devil on to the crest of a hillock rising above the peaty waste. Fiends often do dress like angels, and it is certainly hard to detect anything of the devil when the Madonna-blue chalices of that visionary flower, Gentiana pneumonanthe, are open on the heath. But devils did traffic with holy stones in archaic England, for devils were once gods themselves fallen from heaven upon evil days, the days when the usurping Celts looked with dread upon the works of their predecessors. For the Agglestone is a menhir".
Taken from Downland Man by H.J. Massingham Pub 1927 by Jonathan Cape Purbeck - Dorset - Southern England.
Studland & Godlingston Heath is designated as one of only 35 "Spotlight Reserves" in England by Natural England in the list of National Nature Reserves in England and is listed as a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI).
The reserve predominantly consists of internationally important lowland heath but also has a wide range of habitats including sand dune, peat bog, alder and willow carr, freshwater lagoons such as the "Little Sea", and 5 km of sandy beach. All six species of native British reptiles are found here including the rare and nationally-endangered Sand Lizard and Smooth Snake.
The Reserve is a notable stronghold of the rare Dartford Warbler which has successfully survived in this corner of Dorset when nearly wiped out elsewhere in southern England by prolonged periods of extreme winter cold.
Ancient History
The Reserve features many prehistoric remains of man's activity in the area pre-dating Roman times, indicated on the OS maps as Tumulus.