Cerne Abbas buildings [3]
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Cerne Abbas buildings [3]
Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 11 Dec 2020
Cerne Abbas Stores, number 9 Long Street is 18th century and was mostly rebuilt in the late 1830s following a fire. Rendered rubble stone walls. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1119443 There is an interesting history of the house at page 18 of the Cerne Historical Society's publication A Short Anecdotal History of Cerne Abbas at: https://cerneabbashistory.org/house-history/ Cerne Abbas is a village on the banks of the River Cerne, some 10 miles north of Dorchester. The village grew around the Benedictine abbey which was founded in 987 and thrived after the dissolution as a small market town renowned for the quality of the beer brewed there. At one time there were 15 public houses for a population of 1,500. Now the economy of the village is dominated by tourism with thousands of visitors drawn to see the world famous Giant – a chalk figure 180 feet high.
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