2013 Rural Dorset - Visit Dorset
2013 Rural Dorset - Visit Dorset 2013 Rural Dorset - Visit Dorset
www.visit-dorset.com Chained Library, Wimborne Minster ©SC Suggestions for exploring our Heritage & Gardens 8
For a full day out The Treasures of Wimborne - explore Wimborne Minster’s leading attractions; the Minster Church of St Cuthburga, the Priest’s House Museum, Wimborne Model Town and Walford Mill Crafts, all within walking distance of each other. Half-day attractions Kingston Lacy House - 17th century house built to resemble an Italian Palace with beautifully detailed carvings. Discover intimate family souvenirs and outstanding artworks, gardens and parkland. Athelhampton House & Gardens - discover this 15th century manor house with its historic rooms and antique furnishings. Explore the stunning architectural gardens, riverside walk and art gallery. Royal Signals Museum - learn about signalling through history from semaphore to satellites, telegraph to telephones, codes to computers, plus a special ‘Women at War’ exhibit. Fleet Air Arm Museum - representing the flying arm of the Royal Navy, the museum is the world’s second largest naval aviation museum with over 90 aircraft and 30,000 artefacts in four exhibition halls. Shaftesbury Abbey Museum - on the site of King Alfred’s nunnery of 888AD the museum vividly brings the Abbey ruins to life with displays including carved stonework, medieval floor tiles and other excavated objects. Great Combinations; Explore the charming walled garden of the Priest’s House Museum, or any of the other Treasures of Wimborne (see above) and combine with a trip to; Knoll Gardens - 4 acre garden of Neil Lucas, the UK’s leading authority on ornamental grasses. The extensive collection of grasses, set against a backdrop of rare and unusual trees and shrubs, create stunning year-round displays. For further details and contact information, please see pages 14-15 Sturminster Newton Mill and Museum - learn more about the rich traditions of the Blackmore Vale and explore this pretty market town with its picturesque water mill on the River Stour. For a full day out, combine Sturminster Newton with a visit to historic Shaftesbury. ©RH Shaftesbury Abbey Museum Fishing at Sturminster Mill Ornamental Grasses, Knoll Gardens ©Diana Jazwinski www.visit-dorset.com 9
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For a full day out<br />
The Treasures of Wimborne -<br />
explore Wimborne Minster’s<br />
leading attractions; the Minster<br />
Church of St Cuthburga,<br />
the Priest’s House Museum,<br />
Wimborne Model Town and<br />
Walford Mill Crafts, all within<br />
walking distance of each other.<br />
Half-day attractions<br />
Kingston Lacy House - 17th<br />
century house built to resemble<br />
an Italian Palace with beautifully<br />
detailed carvings. Discover intimate<br />
family souvenirs and outstanding<br />
artworks, gardens and parkland.<br />
Athelhampton House & Gardens<br />
- discover this 15th century manor<br />
house with its historic rooms and<br />
antique furnishings. Explore the<br />
stunning architectural gardens,<br />
riverside walk and art gallery.<br />
Royal Signals Museum - learn<br />
about signalling through history<br />
from semaphore to satellites,<br />
telegraph to telephones, codes to<br />
computers, plus a special ‘Women<br />
at War’ exhibit.<br />
Fleet Air Arm Museum -<br />
representing the flying arm of<br />
the Royal Navy, the museum is<br />
the world’s second largest naval<br />
aviation museum with over 90<br />
aircraft and 30,000 artefacts in<br />
four exhibition halls.<br />
Shaftesbury Abbey Museum<br />
- on the site of King Alfred’s<br />
nunnery of 888AD the museum<br />
vividly brings the Abbey ruins to<br />
life with displays including carved<br />
stonework, medieval floor tiles<br />
and other excavated objects.<br />
Great Combinations;<br />
Explore the charming walled<br />
garden of the Priest’s House<br />
Museum, or any of the other<br />
Treasures of Wimborne (see<br />
above) and combine with a<br />
trip to;<br />
Knoll Gardens - 4 acre garden<br />
of Neil Lucas, the UK’s leading<br />
authority on ornamental grasses.<br />
The extensive collection of<br />
grasses, set against a backdrop<br />
of rare and unusual trees and<br />
shrubs, create stunning<br />
year-round displays.<br />
For further details and contact information, please see pages 14-15<br />
Sturminster Newton Mill and<br />
Museum - learn more about the<br />
rich traditions of the Blackmore<br />
Vale and explore this pretty<br />
market town with its picturesque<br />
water mill on the River Stour.<br />
For a full day out, combine<br />
Sturminster Newton with a visit<br />
to historic Shaftesbury.<br />
©RH<br />
Shaftesbury Abbey Museum<br />
Fishing at Sturminster Mill<br />
Ornamental Grasses, Knoll Gardens ©Diana Jazwinski<br />
www.visit-dorset.com<br />
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