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www.visit-dorset.com Suggested itineraries for those dreary Umbrella Days... Priest’s House Museum ©SC 12
When it’s wet outside pay a visit to one of our wonderful museums, mills or manor houses Great combinations; Royal Signals Museums -this fascinating museum tells the story of communication; from torches and sunlight, through flags, semaphore, telegraph and telephone, to modern encrypted satellite and integrated battlefield communications. Kingston Lacy House - 17th century mansion with stunning rooms including the sumptuous Spanish Room gilded in leather and an outstanding art collection with works by Titian and Van Dyck. Walford Mill Crafts - explore the beautifully converted old mill buildings which are now a high quality crafts centre with resident makers. Watch them at work, browse the shop or enjoy the latest exhibition. Minster Church of St Cuthburga - this gracious edifice is full of surprises; an amazing Astronomical Clock, the unique Chained Library and other intriguing artefacts including the ‘man in the wall’. Priest’s House Museum - period rooms show how life and work have changed in this historic townhouse. 10 galleries illustrate the area’s rich archaeology, local history, costume and childhood. Shaftesbury Abbey Museum - on the site of Saxon England’s foremost Benedictine nunnery founded by King Alfred in 888AD, the museum, decorated in dramatic medieval colours, tells the story of the abbey and its inhabitants. Sturminster Newton Museum - a pretty thatched building with exhibits on the history of the town and its cattle market, railway, milk factory and local poets including Thomas Hardy and William Barnes. For further details and contact information, please see pages 14-15 Sturminster Newton Mill - one of a series of ancient flour mills on the River Stour, explore yourself or enjoy an informal guided tour of three floors of working machinery to understand how flour was ground. Other suggestions; Fleet Air Arm Museum Athelhampton House Milton Abbey Church An activity or a swim at one of our local leisure centres in Wimborne Minster, Verwood, Shaftesbury, Sturminster Newton, Ferndown and Blandford Forum. Minster Church of St Cuthburga ©SC Kingston Lacy House © National Trust Images/James Mortimer www.visit-dorset.com 13
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