Tolpuddle houses [9]

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Tolpuddle houses [9]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 11 Dec 2020

Numbers 1, 2 and 3 The Green are a terrace of three cottages with plastered cob walls and thatched roofs. Numbers 1 and 2 (nearer the camera) are probably 17th century. Number 3 is late 15th or early 16th century and was originally a long-house of open hall form - a house with attached byre on the right. This is now incorporated in the house, but with the roof at a lower level. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1303484 The village of Tolpuddle is located alongside the River Piddle is some 7 miles north east of Dorchester and is essentially a commuter village. Formerly astride the A35, the village is now by-passed. The village is renowned as the home of the Tolpuddle Martyrs, six farm labourers led by a Methodist lay preacher who met to form a union to resist reductions in wages.

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