Property News · September 13, 2013

Let's move to Blandford Forum, Dorset


We must thank the Bastards for this curiously pretty Georgian townWhat’s going for it? I am told that the very mention by a teacher of the Bastard brothers, architects of all that is genteel and Georgian about Blandford Forum, can cause a classroom to descend into chaos. The Bastards (titter) helped rebuild the town after a devastating fire in 1731. But how do you repay them for their harmony of proportion and elegant way with a mullion? Laughter, that’s how. The less juvenile will thank the Bastards (titter), for they left behind a curiously pretty town, curious because of the completeness of their Georgian vision. This is a little Bath in brick. I was also expecting if not the Colosseum then at least a bit of Roman rubble. It’s called “forum”, right? But I’ll make do with the pretty cupola on the parish church, Georgian town houses, a pint from the Badger Brewery and a mooch round the Saturday market. This is Proper Dorset, far from the madding crowd of the coast and un-Fearnley-Whittingstalled, with its peculiar collision of dairy farms, bronze age forts, army manoeuvres and the Young Farmers.The case against It’s facing its fair share of austerity ennui: empty shops and the like. People under 23, don’t expect many thrills. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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