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Dorset is a palliative for the human condition

No wonder that friends with houses here are hard to entice away

29 August 2015

9:00 AM

29 August 2015

9:00 AM

Do-orzaat. Dorset is part of L’Angleterre profonde. It is possible to find evidence of modernity, but only in limited areas. Around 120 miles from London, west Dorset and the Somerset marches are around the same distance from the 21st century, let alone the 20th. It helps that no motorway runs through the county and mobile phone reception is delightfully bad.

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