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Beech Road, DORCHESTER, DT2 8SZ

K6 telephone box on the edge of the village.

This postbox stands more or less right on the gridline between this square and the one to the south, on Brymer Road, part of modern housing to the south of the village. The postbox is emptied finally at 10 o'clock each morning except Sunday.

Number 1 Athelhampton Road was partly used as a shop and as a garage. Built probably in the early 19th century with plastered walls and a thatched roof. The rear wing, along New Street was probably originally an outbuilding and was the part used as a shop. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1154375 The village of Puddletown, earlier known as Piddletown is located alongside the River Piddle some 4½ miles north east of Dorchester and is now essentially a commuter village. There is evidence of occupation from prehistoric times in the form of some 30 round barrows. The use of watermeadows in Dorset was first developed in Puddletown in the 17th century. The village was the inspiration for the fictional settlement of Weatherbury in the novel Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.

No 1 Athelhampton Road; listed by English Heritage: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=106255&mode=adv

On Athelhampton Road, at the corner of Milom Lane: http://www.puddletownsurgery.co.uk/

On High Street, with Community Library to the left. http://www.dorsethalls.net/content/puddletown-village-hall-0 http://www.communitylibrarypuddletown.org/

This gateway into the grounds of The Old Manor are seen from The Green. The village of Puddletown, earlier known as Piddletown is located alongside the River Piddle some 4½ miles north east of Dorchester and is now essentially a commuter village. There is evidence of occupation from prehistoric times in the form of some 30 round barrows. The use of watermeadows in Dorset was first developed in Puddletown in the 17th century. The village was the inspiration for the fictional settlement of Weatherbury in the novel Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.

Puddletown Church of England VC First School, on High Street; the building is dated 1864: http://www.puddletownfirst.dorset.sch.uk/pages/school/school.htm http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=106263&mode=adv