Everything about The Blackmore Vale totally explained
The
Blackmore Vale (less commonly spelt
Blackmoor) is a
vale, or wide
valley, in
North Dorset, and to a lesser extent
South Somerset and southwest
Wiltshire in southern
England. The vale is part of the
Stour valley. The vale is delimited by the
Dorset Downs, a chalk ridge to the south;
Cranborne Chase, chalk hills to the east; and the watershed between the Stour and
Yeo valleys to the northwest (which generally follows close to the borders between North Dorset, South Somerset and West Dorset). The River Stour flows out of the vale at
Blandford Forum in the southeast, a town sandwiched between the Dorset Downs and Cranborne Chase. The river flows into the vale north of
Gillingham.
The vale is
Thomas Hardy's "Vale of the little dairies", and books including
Tess of the D'urbervilles were set here; he also lived and wrote in
Sturminster Newton for a time. Poet
William Barnes also lived in
Sturminster Newton.
Douglas Adams and
Robert Boyle lived in
Stalbridge for part of their lives.
Land use in the vale is predominantly
dairy farming, with many small farms dotted across the vale. Until it was closed in
1998 Sturminster Newton
livestock market was the busiest weekly livestock market in
Britain. There are also many small towns and villages in the vale:
Steam locomotive
A
Southern Railway West Country class steam locomotive, built in 1946 at
Brighton Works as no. 21c123, bore the name of the Vale. However, she currently carries the incorrect spelling "Blackmoor Vale". She is currently based at the
Bluebell Railway in
Sussex, where she's been operational since
2000.
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