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"Everybody tells you Dorset is a house or mansion county, not a church county...Yet when one
sets down all one has seen of Dorset churches,..one suddenly realizes how much one has
enjoyed", wrote Pevsner at the conclusion of his journey. The county provides many unexpected
pleasures in ecclesiastical buildings, from the Norman arches of Wimborne Minster, the Early
English solemnity of Milton Abbey, to the splendour of Sherborne and the monuments and
furnishings of numerous smaller buildings. Of castles, mansions and houses, Dorset boasts the
evocative ruins of Corfe; the splendid Kingston Lacy; mighty Milton Abbey House and a wealth
of more modest homes. But the county also possesses fine towns and villages, from the Georgian
elegance of Weymouth and Lyme Regis, to the the model estate village of Milton Abbas.
