Tag: Dorset Building Stones

Field Trip: Blandford Building stone

Dorset Geologist’s Association Group (DGAG) and Dorset Building Stones will host a Field Trip on the Saturday 15th November 2025 in Blandford Forum.
Title: Blandford Forum Building Stone
Leader : Kelvin Huff, Sheila Alderman, John Scott
Time: 10:45am start, finish about 13:45pm
Location: St Peter’s and St Paul’s Church at 10:45 am.
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Parking: Stour Meadows car park is free (behind Brewery), short walk to meet location above. Closest Car Park, Marsh and Ham Car Park £2:40 or £3:70 for 3 or 4 hours respectively. Toilets are located here.
Entry Cost: Fieldtrip free to DGAG members. Parking fee options as above.
Booking: email Jonathan Stiby at fieldtrips@dorsetgeologistsassociation.org
Description: This trip will introduce the local geology setting and guide you round the variety of stone used in Blandford’s buildings. There are many fossils visible, and we recommend you bring a hand lens. The trip will be a guided walk round the building stone trail (guide booklet available to buy if you wish).
Full details will be issued to those wishing to join this great trip.
I will be seeking a willing volunteer to write up the trip for the DGAG newsletter and thank you very much if you can do this for the benefit of all.
Jonathan Stiby
Fieldtrip Officer

Photo: Courtesy of Dorset Building Stones website – Blandford Chapel
Additional Links: As and when available
1. Dorset Building Stones website with good sections on geology and fossils

https://www.dorsetbuildingstone.org/

Field Trip: Dorset Building Stones Group. B: The Building Stones, History and Geology of Milborne Port

Dorset Building Stones Group. B will host a field trip on the Tuesday 24 September 2024
Title: The Building Stones, History and Geology of Milborne Port. (Fully booked on 24th September but a repeat visit could be arranged) Contact Sheila Alderman on alderman.sm@gmail.com about going on a waiting list or repeat trip as this date is fully subscribed

Leader: Martin Gledhill/Sheila Alderman
Location/Time: Contact Sheila Alderman: start time 10:30 am

Cost: Contact Sheila Alderman

Registration: Contact Sheila Alderman
Event Description: Milborne Port is an ancient village with roots going back to Saxon times. It was centred round 2 manors, one of which, Kingsbury Regis, was a royal manor from the time of Alfred the Great to that of Henry VIII. Other buildings we will see include Ven House (a William and Mary mansion), the Parish Church with Saxon and early Norman features, the 18th century Town Hall, the butcher’s shop which has a Norman doorway as it was originally a mediaeval guildhall, the market cross, the ball court, picturesque thatched Newtown, Manor Farm, 2 former gloving factories and Kingsbury Mill and the mill stream which gave the village its name.
Photo: Courtesy of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milborne_Port#/media/File:The_Old_Town_Hall_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4170772.jpg
Further Reading
See the website:

  1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_John_the_Evang elist,_Milborne_Port