Blandford Forum

Boasting what is perhaps the handsomest Georgian town center in the South of England, this market town of brick and stone on the River Stour was Thomas Hardy's "Shottsford Forum." The 1739 Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, with its imposing cupola, deserves a look.

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