Mince Pie Meeting

Wednesday 4 December, - 10.00 for 10.30am
Location: Stratton Village Hall, Stratton. DT2 9WG.

Our forthcoming Mincepie Meeting on Wednesday 4 December to be held once again in Stratton Village Hall along the River Frome a few miles north of Dorchester (post code DT2 9WG) where Andrew Morgan has kindly booked us into the Aylott Room from 10-12.30. The Hall is just over the road from the Saxon Arms and (as last year) a light lunch there is also perhaps invited.

Items on our menu (not omitting the mincepies and tea/coffee) will include a short report on this last year (which I will be putting together) and – top of the pile - will be DCB matters prompted by the Cranborne Chase AONB successful HLF bid.

Our Mincepie meeting this year will present a valuable opportunity to bring along all the material we have assembled over recent years relating to the length of the boundary which traverses the area of the AONB – maps, papers, reports, HRFs, photographs, et cetera. And to spread things out on that big table – and/or slot things into the projector. Those of us who attended the Chalke Valley History Festival in June – the display we were kindly invited to mount in the AONB marquee - will recall the hugely enlarged OS map spread out across the table in the centre of the marquee presenting the area of the AONB across which one could almost ‘virtually’ walk that historic length of our shire boundary extending from just east of Shaftesbury to just south of Biddlesgate.

As you will be aware, Roger Goulding with whom we had that most encouraging meeting in Shaftesbury last February, has now left the AONB.