©Steve Bewers, March 2025

Quietly over the last 275 years or so the village of Milton Abbas has been changing. Built to be the homes of estate workers, who leased them from the estate they all worked on these cottages have changed from “Houses of Multiple Occupancy” to family homes and something of a tourist attraction.

The village excites a fair bit of interest from historians, tourists and TV Producers because of its unique history and aesthetic appeal.

Landscaped by Capability Brown in the eighteenth century the village sits in a quiet, wooded valley right in the centre of Dorset.

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