The Wimborne St Giles estate map, which dates from 1659, was cleaned and restored by experts the the Dorset History Centre. The hand-drawn, colour map, owned by Lord Shaftesbury, shows field ...

While you're in Shaftesbury, be sure to stop at King Alf's Pub at teatime for piping-hot scones and the best clotted cream I've ever tasted. Dorset's coastal towns have their own charm.

A sinkhole has opened up in the centre of a village road causing it to close. Dorset Police shut North End in Motcombe, near Shaftesbury, Dorset, after the large sinkhole was discovered on Tuesday.

POLICE are investigating after a car crash in Dorset left a vehicle on its roof before the occupants reportedly fled the scene.

Described as the farm that time forgot, Naish Farm near Shaftesbury, Dorset, has come to the market for the first time since the 1950s. The 215 acres of permanent pasture on loam over gravel has ...

A Dorset Police spokesman said: "We were called at 11.36am on Monday August 10 by the fire service to a report of a large fire at Dorset Chilled Foods on Longmead in Shaftesbury.

The pilot, 64, and a 67-year-old passenger were confirmed dead by police after the Tiger Moth plane crashed near Compton Abbas Airfield in Shaftesbury, Dorset ...

Ye Olde Two Brewers in Shaftesbury, Dorset, was just weeks from closure when Sussex couple Daniel and Juliet Owen Nuttall took over the 18th-century pub in November 2023.

The Wimborne St Giles estate map, which dates from 1659, was cleaned and restored by experts the the Dorset History Centre. The hand-drawn, colour map, owned by Lord Shaftesbury, shows field ...