PREFACE

Once you’re through the Gate on the Hill the road runs along the top of the outside earthwork of the Ancient British camp on top of Eggardon. After about five hundred yards it disappears from view as it drops down into the village.

“My God!” a passenger said once as we approached the end of the flat, “We’re running out of road!”

Professor Good, an authority on the old villages and roads of the county said that the original road ran in the trough on the right as you leave the gate and then down over the hill to the right and joined the present road again at the bottom of the steep part. In this way it would pass Hutts Farm which no longer exists.

The nature of the road, its narrowness, makes it unsuitable for the nervous driver. During my time at the farm I was called on several times to ferry cars across the top when their drivers had taken fright and abandoned them.

The road across the top is a fine place to stand and admire the Dorset countryside, Powerstock Common in the foreground and, in the distance, Beaminster Tunnel and Lewesdon and Pilsdon.

H. S. POOLE.
BRIDPORT.
MARCH 1988.