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Blackmore Vale, Dorset

Views of Blackmore Vale Music: an original composition, 'Complect Clouds' by T Mark Rogers. Images: The first opening four and closing five photographs are by kind permission of Marilyn Peddle - her splendid collection of Blackmore Vale photos can be viewed at: https://www.flickr.com/photos/marilyn... Between them are B&W photos from the 1920s and 1930s of Hill Farm, Woolland. The pastoral expanse of the Blackmore Vale can be viewed wonderfully from its southern boundary ridge of chalk hills: Woolland, Bulbarrow, Belchalwell, Okeford; across the Stour valley from the eastern hill fort of Hambledon; and from the NE escarpment of Fontmell Down to Melbury Beacon and Shaftesbury. For many of us who were born and brought up in the heart of the Blackmore Vale it felt very much as the famous Dorset poet, William Barnes, writes in his poem "Childhood": "...Our world did end with the names, Of Shaftesbury Hill or Bulbarrow ..." Nestling at the foot of Bulbarrow, is Hill Farm, Woolland, where my maternal grandparents ran a dairy (one of Thomas Hardy's 'little dairies') producing lovely full cream cheese for sale to grocers and at the market in Sturminster Newton and where they brought up their four children: Ralph, Gwyn, Pam and Victor White. The B&W photos show Hill Farm, Gwyn (my mother) and her sister Pam; and two of Gypsy families who frequently camped on the farmland on Bulbarrow, with whom the Whites held mutual respect and friendship. Thomas Hardy in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, describes beautifully the tranquil view over Blackmore Vale: 'Here in the valley, the world seems to be constructed upon a smaller and more delicate scale; the fields are mere paddocks, so reduced that from this height their hedgerows appear a network of dark green threads overspreading the paler green of the grass. The atmosphere below is languorous, and is so tinged with azure that what artists call the middle distance partakes of that hue, whilst the horizon beyond is of deepest ultramarine.'