Oct 26th 2016 a Gang of Four vi

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A family visit 14-18th November 2016. Generally dank weather with periods of sunshine, it was cold at the end

Our Drive down to Wolverton Gatehouse via Shaftesbury
Map of my Geotags taken on my new Nikon compact	Shaftesbury's main Square	Which way to go?	A reminder of Gold Hill's moment of glory in the Hovis Advert
St Peter's Church	Shaftesbury Town Hall	Suspicious	King Alfred's Kitchen
Helen on Gold Hill	The Mitre, for our lunch	The start of Gold Hill
Illustrated bench	Looking back up Gold Hill	Gold Hill, with a misty background	Gold Hill Museum
Shaftesbury Monastery wall	The Monastery door	The Grosvenor Hotel, the family once owned Shaftesbury	Teddy bear Corner
"Over the top" shop	The Ship Inn	A Polish Shop	A Your door number?
Mr Punch's Market	Wolverton Gatehouse where we stayed	Looking through the arch	The main House entrance a "Stately home" closed in November
Osmington and Osmington Mill
	Our Sitting room	Our bedroom	Our bathroom
Wolverton House	Too much contrast in this photo!	Morning sunshine	The spiral staircase
Osmington	Osmington 2	Osmington 3	An Ammonite on a house
The Beehive cottage	A straw bee on the roof	Another view	Panorama from the top of a very steep slippery walk. A stick helped the walk down!
George III portrayed in a chalk memorial	A wind vain	Bakehouse conversion	Periscope?
Weymouth across the bay	A Kestrel hovers		Weymouth
Towards Portland Harbour	Minesweeper M3, much enlarged, offshore	Osmington Mill coastline	The Smugglers Inn
		Portland Bill on the Horizon	The Wolverton Gatehouse location
Weymouth and Chesil Beach
Weymouth Car Park Street Art	Carved supporters	The Golden Lion
The Harbour	A Trawler	The Quay opposite	The Old Fish Market
Central Street		Mums on the beach	A Promenade Shelter
Dog Bar	The "Duke of Cornwall" has seen better days	A tatty crow	Weymouth Beach
The flags were out	A Blue Glove	"The Ship", our lunch stop where I had crab, which may have had dangerous results	Clean Glasses
Narrow houses	Georgian houses	Sun balcony	Poorer houses
	The bridge on to Chesil Beach	Carved wooden Cormorant	Shingle on the beach
An Evening stroll	Sky scape	A Fisherman	The Chesil Beach Visitor Centre
A Boat?	Mud flats	Towards Weymouth	Abbotsbury
	Main street Abbotsbury		Barn Conversion we parked outside
Illchester Arms pub in the centre	Inside for lunch	Jester decor	Waiter sign
Three rods	Waves	Looking West	Weymouth Area
Portland Bill
Towards the Bay and Portland Harbour	Cliffs at Portland Bill	A Crow	The main Lighthouse
Pulpit Rock	A Cuddle	Quarry remains?	Trinity House Marker
Smoke rings cloud?	Sunset	A redundant Lighthouse	A Boat Launching crane
Trippers go off home	Rufus Castle above Church Ope Cove	Rufus Castle gate	Church Ope Cove
A Pavement with fossils	Easton village	Church Ope Cove Boulders	Portland Museum, shut
A Cleft in the rock below Rufus Castle	Houses Easton	Cyclists stopped by flood on old railway track	In the Evening
Cern Abbas
	A Drinking trough	Wolverton Stables	A Machine
			A Chimney early morning
The Smith's Arms, Godmanstone		The "Smallest pub in England" (closed)	The Mill, Godmanstone
Holy Trinity Norman Church. Godmanstone	The Original door	West Window	The "Giant" Cerne Abbas
Workmen run for cover from photos	Local Vernacular buildings Cerne Abbas		"The Giant", every other building had been a pub
The New Inn	The Old Gaol cottage	A Tudor building	The river acts a moat
Dorset Beauty House	Complex pipes	Cerne Abbas Main Street	New Inn Yard
	The Sun Insurance Fire Mark	St Mary the Virgin	An Oriel Window
Abbey Street houses built 1500		The Abbey	Autumn colour
Abbey Houses	Their Barn	The Abbots Gatehouse, the wall around the Abbey has gone	Abbey Farm
The Duck Pond	Abbey Street corner	Doves	Matthew at leisure
The Hardy Memorial and Abbotsbury Sub tropical Garden
"Kiss me Hardy"		Black Down	The road ahead
Sheep	Looking East	Abbotsbury Sub Tropical Garden	Wet Cafe Table

			St Catherine's Chapel glimpsed
Tree ferns

			St Catherine's Chapel
Malaysian Rope Bridge		Eastern Garden house
The "Colonial Restaurant"	Veranda	Chinaman	Cafe Lights
Dorchester
Map of Dorchester	The author Hardy's statue		We followed the "Walks" (see left), which follow the old city walls, towards the Roman Town House, above
Mosaic Floor	Heating System
Judge Jeffereys Lodgings	Church, High Street West	William Barnes, dialect poet	Dorset County Museum
The Royal Oak	The Antelope (Redeveloped) The Information office was at the far end of the alley
House of the Mayor of Casterbridge	Tutankhamun Exhibition	An ornate Barbers' sign	Start of Antelope passage
The Oak Room where Judge Jeffereys held his trials and we had coffee, not at the same time	His portrait from the far wall		Models outside the Dinosaur Museum
Mary Anning pioneer fossil hunter	Richard Owen, pioneer in Palaeontology	Mastodon Skull	Dorset Martyrs by Elizabeth Frick
Car parks in Dorchester	An original Victorian design Post Box	Shopping Arcade	In the Potters Cafe, Durngate Stree,t for our lunch where I was taken ill
Sherborne and then Home
	Matthew leads on	An old Inn redeveloped	The monthly Farmers Market
Fussels	"Dorset Shell Fish"	T To Sherborne Museum entrance beneath the arch, previously used for hanging criminals	Gerald Pitman, a founder of the Museum
A grumpy Carpenter	Edwardian?	Picture of the siege of Sherborne Castle	Sherborne Abbey in the rain
Famous Fan Vaulting		Now raining hard!	Helen's Geotags