Milton Abbas, Dorset - Hambro Arms - postcard c.1960s

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• Picture / Image:  The Hambro Arms, Miltn Arms, Dorset - 
• Publisher: Hamilton-Fisher & Co, Pimlico, Torquay
• Postally used: no
• Stamp:  n/a
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• Notes / condition: some small marks near corners on reverse where it was probably mounted at one point

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Milton Abbas is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in South West England. It is in the North Dorsetdistrict, about 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west of Blandford Forum. In the 2011 census the civil parish had a population of 755.

In 1780, Joseph Damer, Lord Milton, the first Earl of Dorchester and owner of Milton Abbey, decided that the adjacent market town, Middleton, was disturbing his vision of rural peace. He commissioned architect Sir William Chambers and landscape gardener Capability Brown (both of whom had already worked on the Abbey building and grounds) to design a new village, Milton Abbas, in a wooded valley (Luccombe Bottom) to the south-east of the Abbey. Most of the existing villagers were relocated here, and the previous village was demolished and the site landscaped.

The 36 almost identical thatched cottages were intended to house two families each. They were built from cob and previously were painted yellow, with each house fronted by a lawn; originally a horse chestnut tree was planted between each dwelling.^[1] Almshouses and a church were also provided for the new village, sited opposite each other. The almshouses were moved from the old town, where they had originally been built in 1674. The church, consecrated in 1786, is in Georgian Gothic style, with late 19th-century additions.^[1]

Some house-names give clues to some of the original inhabitants of the village: baker, blacksmith, brewery, etc. Today the houses are white-washed, and the main street also features a public house (the Hambro Arms), a Post Office/shop, a now redundant school building, and a Weslyan chapel. In 1953 the original horse chestnut trees were judged unsafe and a danger to the houses and removed.^[1] Above the eastern end of the valley, the village has been extended with more modern housing and other facilities, including a doctor's surgery.

Measured directly, Milton Abbas village is about 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west of the market town Blandford Forum and 9.5 miles (15.3 km) north-east of the county town Dorchester. Milton Abbas civil parish extends from the village south to Bagber Farm, west to Bramblecombe Lane, north to Delcombe Head, and east to the top of Whatcombe Wood.^[2]