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Blandford Forum is an English town in the county of Dorset. Blandford rests on the River Stour, and has a neighbouring small village called Blandford St Mary.
Blandford has been a fording point since Anglo-Saxon times. In the Domesday Book it was recorded as Blaen-y-ford and as Blaneford, which means ford of the river of blay or gudgeon.
In the 13th century, Blandford Forum was a significant market town, with its livestock market serving the nearby Blackmore Vale with its many Dairy farms. The word forum is Latin for market, and was recorded in association with Blandford in 1540. Blandford was a welcome break for those travelling between port of Weymouth and the capital London. There is still a weekly market held in the market place, which has remained roughly unchanged for over two hundred years.
The parish church of St Peter and St Paul is a classical Georgian style building with a copula on top of the tower and was rebuilt in the 18th century having been destroyed in the fire of 1731. Blandford Forum is considered one of the finest examples of a Georgian town in Britain. 'The Old House', in The Close, built before the fire of 1731 is one of the oldest buildings in the town.
Following Blandford’s fire of 1731, much of the town ended up in tatters. John and William Bastard oversaw the town’s reconstruction for the next 30 years, creating the fine Georgian town seen today. To the south of the town a six arch stone bridge spans the slow-moving River Stour.
Blandford Forum continued to prosper however, helped by the deliberate destruction of the neighbouring market town of Milton Abbas between 1771 and 1790 by the Earl of Dorchester, who replaced it with a more modest model village, Blandford St Mary. New housing grew along Dorset and Orchard Streets, and later after the arrival of the railway, in streets running off from Salisbury Road.
One of the largest industries currently in Blandford Forum is the Badger Brewery which supplies beer and ale to public houses across the region.
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Crab Farms
Tel: 01258 857206 - Shapwick, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 9JL
West Pimperne Farm
Tel: 01258 453213 - Shaftesbury Lane, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 7FD
Hanford Farm
Tel: 01258 863853 - Chisel Dairy, Child Okeford, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 8HJ
Hanford Farm
Tel: 01258 861908 - Chisel Dairy, Hanford, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 8HH
S Harris
Tel: 01258 817423 - Marsh Fm, Ibberton, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 0EJ
Iwerne Springs Farm
Tel: 01747 811144 - Blandford Road, Iwerne Minster, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 8QN
Langham Farms
Tel: 01258 817446 - Warren Farm Bland Ford, Shillingstone, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 0SG
Lodge Farm Packing Station
Tel: 01258 456933 - Walston Poultry Fm, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 9AS
Lower Almer Farm
Tel: 01258 858887 - South Fm, Spetisbury, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 9DY
John Martin
Tel: 01258 837223 - Deverel Fm, Milborne St. Andrew, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 0HX
W.V Poole
Tel: 01258 454327 - Paradise Fm Stud Higher Shaftesbury Rd, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 8LD
Tarrant Hinton Farms
Tel: 01258 830521 - High Banks Blandford Rd, Tarrant Hinton, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 8HX
Walston Poultry Farm
Tel: 01258 450973 - Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 9AS
Walston Poultry Farm
Tel: 01258 480373 - Eastdown Fm, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 9AS
Walston Poultry Farm
Tel: 01929 471384 - Winterborne Kingston, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 9BN
Wates Farm Partnership
Tel: 01258 451730 - Langton Fm, Langton Long, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 9HT
West Park Farms
Tel: 01258 837070 - Puddletown Rd, Winterborne Whitechurch, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 0HT
J & R Seare
Tel: 01929 459398 - Mapperton Fm Mapperton, Mapperton, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 9ER
Watcombe Farms Ltd
Tel: 01258 880225 - Whatcombe Farm, Whatcombe, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11 0NZ
Oakford Shellfish
Tel: 01258 861182 - DT11 0QT
Shrublands Farm
Tel: 01747 825136 - Shrublands Nurseries Motcombe, Sherstock, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 9PT (7.63 miles)
Handley Cross Farm
Tel: 01258 817529 - Pidney, Hazelbury Bryan, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, DT10 2EB (10.91 miles)
Hinton St. Mary Farms
Tel: 01258 472623 - Manston, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, DT10 1HA (10.91 miles)
Hinton St. Mary Farms
Tel: 01258 475178 - Hinton St. Mary, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, DT10 1NA (10.91 miles)
R.H Johnston
Tel: 01258 817354 - Thurnwood Fm Mappowder, Mappowder, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, DT10 2EW (10.91 miles)
Lower Bagber Farm
Tel: 01258 473468 - Pentridge La, Lower Bagber, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, DT10 2EX (10.91 miles)
R & M Parker
Tel: 01258 817472 - Saunders Fm Towns Knap, Mappowder, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, DT10 2EN (10.91 miles)
Stalbridge Estate Farms
Tel: 01963 362102 - Sturt Fm, Stalbridge, Sturminster Newton, Dorset, DT10 2SE (10.91 miles)
Pd & Em Stockley
Tel: 01300 345273 - Thurnwood Dairy Fm, Mappowder, DT10 2EW (10.91 miles)
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