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Riverside Takeaway in Maiden Newton
Fish & chips shop at 63 Dorchester Road. The river in question is the nearby Frome.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 1 Sep 2018
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Grade II listed Belvedere House, Maiden Newton
The early 19th century house on the left at 59 Dorchester Road was Grade II listed in 1985.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 1 Sep 2018
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Defending Dorset in 1940: the Maiden Newton - Poole Harbour Stop Line (1)
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Anti-tank Blocks: DoB ID: S0003151
Maiden Newton Anti-tank Island - Cubes. In and around the village you will find anti-tank cubes or blocks like these, they are simply everywhere, testament to when the village was fortified and ringed with ditches, mines, and concrete blocks during the invasion threat of 1940/41. The anti-tank blocks here at Frome bridge were part of the defences designed to prevent access into the village from the river. Bounded by the River Frome and the railway, Maiden Newton was designated an anti-tank island in 1940, and would become an important part of the Southern Command inland Stop Line. This ran from Yeovil on the Somerset-Dorset border in the north west, to its southern extremity in the south east at Poole Harbour.
The Stop Line defences between Maiden Newton and Poole roughly followed the railway line and the River Frome via Dorchester and Wareham where many of them can still be found today, the majority in the form of pillboxes and concrete anti-tank blocks. This is a sequential photo record of just some of those I've been able to find and access along the former Stop Line, commencing with Maiden Newton, and from there moving eastwards towards Poole. I should add that for the descriptions I've relied almost entirely on the knowledge base of the Pillbox Study Group, who (in their own words) are committed to the study and preservation of 20th century United Kingdom and International pillboxes and anti-invasion defences. http://www.pillbox-study-group.org.uk/.
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Image: © Mike Searle
Taken: 20 Jan 2016
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Shop at 64 Dorchester Road, Maiden Newton
In September 2018 words on the nameboard include COFFEE SHOP and NEWSAGENTS.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 1 Sep 2018
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Tickle House, Maiden Newton
The three-storey house at 68 Dorchester Road is named Tickle House.
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 1 Sep 2018
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Newsagent/coffee shop, 64 Dorchester Road
Image: © Vieve Forward
Taken: 6 Aug 2022
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Takeaway in a row of houses, Dorchester Road, Maiden Newton
The takeaway is a fish & chips shop. https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5892261
Image: © Jaggery
Taken: 1 Sep 2018
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Dorchester Road, Maiden Newton
Image: © Chris Gunns
Taken: 3 Jun 2019
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Bridges over River Frome, Maiden Newton
Pedestrians are kept away from the traffic on an obvious addition.
Image: © David Smith
Taken: 26 Aug 2020
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Maiden Newton: postbox № DT2 99
This large postbox faces the corner shop which has housed the village post office since the separate post office premises closed down a few years ago. It is emptied finally at 5pm on weekdays and at 10:30am on Saturdays.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 3 Apr 2010
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