©Bryan Phillips March 2025
We hope that this page will inspire you to look further into the hundreds of interesting things to be found in this amazing village.
We will be posting images along with a short description and history and linking to the Historic England listing for the place whether it be a park, an ancient monument or a building.
Many of these can also be found on the Historic Environment Record managed by Dorset County Council.
They are all important and give us a sense of this place.
Please contact us with your photos and descriptions of things you have discovered. We would love to hear from you.
CLAPCOTT Monument, St Mary’s, Winterborne Whitechurch
The Ruins at Milton Abbas – A date and an architect
©Clive Barnes, July 2026 Tucked away on the edge of woodland to the west of Milton Abbey School, on the other side of the golf course, are what appears to be the ruins of an ancient church. Known, perhaps unimaginatively, as The Ruins, these were never a place of worship but were built in the…
LiDAR Digital Terrain Model 0.5m
©Bryan Phillips June 2026 Image ©nls This is a view of The Street and what Capability Brown did with the landscape just after 1780. Just below the centre are the platforms for St James’ Church, but of particular note is how much of the valley bottom has been levelled and the backs of the houses…
Landscape Archaeology
©Bryan Phillips June 2026 I bought and read this book in 2005, that is before the Milton Abbas Local History Group was formed. I have now reread it with Milton Abbas in mind and the authors’ examination and excavation of two downland parishes Overton and Fyfield, both in Wiltshire, over forty years reveals the similarities…
Milton Abbas Local History Group, Dorset, UK 