St Wolfrida’s at Horton is a strange little church. It was built in 1722 on the site of the ruined parish church. This was in turn built on the site of a former Priory Church. The site was originally a Saxon Abbey founded in 961
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St Wolfrida’s Church, Horton
Posted in Dorset, tagged Horton on May 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Horton church window
Posted in Dorset, tagged Horton on February 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The window is early 18th century. The pulpit is of the same date, but Pevsner believed the iron stairs to be mid 19th century. The pulpit was placed in its present position in about 1924, previously having been on the south wall of the nave. Box pews below.
Stooks
Posted in Dorset, tagged Horton on November 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This field of Stooks near Horton is a rare sight in the day of the combine harvester. The purpose of this practices was to protect the unthreshed grain, hay or straw from moisture until it can be picked up and brought into long-term storage. Today it is only used when the straw is intended for [...]
Horton Tower
Posted in Dorset, tagged Horton, Humphrey Sturt on October 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Local legend has it that Horton Tower, (or Sturt’s Folly), was built by landowner Humphrey Sturt so that he could watch the local hunt after he became too infirm to ride with the hounds in his old age.
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- Bridport: Guest outstayed her welcome at pub November 26, 2009A LANDLADY has slated a Christian community for checking a 68-year-old woman with a drink problem into her pub.
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- Lyme: Parents appeal to council to utilise former boys' club building for young people November 26, 2009PARENTS in Lyme Regis have called on the town council to increase the pressure to bring the former Boys’ Club building back into use for young people.
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- Teenagers deny assaulting MP November 26, 2009TWO teenagers have appeared before magistrates at Bournemouth to deny assaulting local MP Tobias Ellwood in Roumelia Lane, Boscombe on June 20 this year.
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- Son death accused 'drank vodka'A man accused of killing his 10-week-old baby son drank a bottle of vodka in the lead up to the death, a court hears.
- Man held for suspected ferry leapA huge search takes place after a man says he and others jumped from a cross-Channel ferry as it approached Poole.
- Alert over life raft found adriftCoastguards launch a major search operation after an empty life raft is spotted floating about 30 miles off the Dorset Coast.
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