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White Hart Inn, lovely to look atFree trip to Australia
"An offer you can't refuse"
Of course, as with all offers that seem to good to be true, there's a catch.
The inscription on the bridge clearly indicates that if you interfere with this bridge in any way, you will be transported to Australia as a felon.
Now, for those of you considering a ride in a jumbo at someone else's expense well, your expectations be damned. No, this was more your 19th century punishment and getting a ride in a none-too-comfortable or hygenic sailing ship and then being put into servitude.
The six-arch Town Bridge is a one way affair, being designed before the needs of modern traffic became known, and traffic lights at either end allocate the direction.
It's a nice lead in to this North Dorset Market Town in the beautiful Blackmore Vale lying in easy reach of Stourhead, Blandford Forum, Shaftesbury, Sherborne, Poole and Bournemouth.
Thomas Hardy labelled this rich agricultural area "The Vale of Little Dairies".
A Market Charter was granted over 700 years ago and market is now held every Monday in the town with stalls selling assorted consumables and things such as footwear and cards.
It houses an expanding population of over 3,500 with two business parks and a new housing project keeping the town busy.
