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Sturminster Newton Mill

Sturminster Newton is known as the capital of the Blackmore Vale, a sleepy town in Dorset that used to be home to one of the largest cattle markets in the UK (b...
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Sturminster Newton is known as the capital of the Blackmore Vale, a sleepy town in Dorset that used to be home to one of the largest cattle markets in the UK (but it closed in 1998).

The mill, one of several flour mills built on the River Stour is an L-shaped building, partly 17th century stone and partly 18th century brick.

A few hundred metres upstream is Riverside Villas where the famous Dorset novelist Thomas Hardy wrote one of his classic texts – “The Return of the Native”
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