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River Stour, Dorset

Images relating to the River Stour , Dorset. Music: an original composition, 'River Stour' by T Mark Rogers. Images: The opening nine and closing five photographs are by kind permission of Marilyn Peddle - her splendid collection can be viewed at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marilynj... Between them are personal photos. This section of the River Stour is described by John Chaffey in Dorset Life magazine pub. May 2008: "Graceful meanders cut a sinuous trace across the south-eastern corner of the Blackmore Vale before the Stour first encounters the looming barrier of the chalklands of the Dorset Downs...The Stour still has an air of rural tranquility about it, flowing silently through the claylands of the Kimmeridge Clay between Sturminster Newton and Shillingstone...Settlement of farm, hamlet and village eschews the floodplain of the Stour and seeks refuge on the terraces on either side. Thus the villages of this stretch of the Stour, arranged in pairs, Shillingstone and Child Okeford, Durweston and Stourpaine, sit well back from the risk of flood on the water meadows near the river. It is only where the Stour can provide power, as at Fiddleford, and further downstream at Durweston, that mills are close to the river. At Sturminster Newton the Stour bids farewell to the Oxford Clay pastures of the Blackmore Vale and cuts through the Corallian ridge, with its stiffening bands of Todber Freestone and Sturminster Oolite. The town, in the words of Treves, 'is "meately" placed, for a gracious river winds round about it, its water-meadows are forever green, while behind it rise the bare heights of the Dorset hills from Hambledon to Bulbarrow'. Sturminster Newton is rich in literary connections: William Barnes, born in nearby Bagber, worked as a solicitor's clerk in the town until he was seventeen; Thomas Hardy rented Riverside Villas in 1876-1878, and during that time wrote 'The Return of the Native', dreaming no doubt of far distant Egdon Heath. Here Hardy also wrote 'Overlooking the River Stour', and immortalised the bird life for all time with: "Planing up shavings of crystal spray A moor-hen darted out From the bank thereabout, And through the stream-shine ripped his way..." 'A Two-years' Idyll' also slipped from his pen, recording some of the happiest times with his wife, Emma, at Riverside Villas."