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Ash Tree Close, DORCHESTER, DT2 8UZ

K6 telephone box on the edge of the village.

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

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.

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

Puddletown C of E First School

This former school and schoolhouse in High Street was converted into five houses in 2016. Built in 1864 in ashlar it remains a fine example of a Victorian village school. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1119073 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.