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Books and Publications relating to Burton Bradstock & Dorset. In some cases the books are out of print, but are listed for completeness and may be found in the library.
 

Note: All books in Dorset libraries are now on line via the village's own community library in conjunction with Dorset County Council see .... Burton Bradstock Library

There is a list of authors who live in Burton Bradstock - see Village Authors

Publication:

Author:

Published by:

Internet Address:

Tel No:

ISBN No:

Bride Valley News

The Parish Magazine of the Bride Valley

Team Ministry

BVN on line

01308 897 359

 

Bound to the soil - a Social History of Dorset (1975)

Barbara Kerr

E.P.Publishing Ltd., East Ardsley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

 

 

0-7158-1132-0

Burton Bradstock - A Dorset Village A short story by John Eastwoodet al        
Concerning Agnes (daughter of General Pitt-Rivers (1982) Desmond Hawkins        

Domesday Book (BB is mentioned in the book)

 

 

www.domesdaybook.co.uk www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/domesday1.html

 

 

Dorset Highlander John Eastwood Winterbourne Press 1988     0950828939
Dorset Smugglers Roger Guttridge

Dorset Publishing Company, Knock-NA-CRE, Milborne Port, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 5HJ

    0-902129 53 8
Dorset Village Walks: No. 1 Burton Bradstock (1983) Norman Saunders-White Norman Saunders-White, The Retreat, Burton Bradstock, Dorset     0-9508942-0-6
Farmers, Fishermen and Flax Spinners - The story of the people of Burton Bradstock Elizabeth Buckler Gale

Elizabeth Gale, Salway Ash, Bridport, Dorset.

 

 

0-9508717-0-2

Life in a Dorset Village John Eastwood Winterbourne Publications, 4 Mill Terrace, Burton Bradstock, Bridport, Dorset      

Our Heritage - the History of St. Mary, Burton Bradstock

E.T.Long

 

 

 

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Poems - "This Gentle Place" (1982)

Douglas Northover

Burton Bradstock Village Society

 

 

 

Report on Richard Roberts - Flax Spinner P.P.Roberts

Dorset Proceedings Volume 99

(Dorset County Museum)

     

Seeing Butterflies

Philip Howse

Papadakis Publisher

2014

www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=philip+howse

01727899387

978 1 906506 46 9

The Bradstock Flock History (1965) J.M.Lenthall        
The Bride Valley (1982) C.J.Bailey The Dorset Natural History & Archaeological Society, Dorchester Extracts   0-900341-15-7

The Burton Bradstock Book (1988)

John Eastwood

Winterbourne Press,Mill Terrace, Burton Bradstock, Dorset.

 

 

 

The Official Guide to the Jurassic Coast Prof. Denys Brunsden Coastal Publishing, Dorset County Council www.coastalpublishing.co.uk   0-9544845-0-9
The Story of Burton Bradstock A short story written & Illustrated by John Eastwood        

The Language of Old Burton

Lore & Language 8/2 (1989) 3-31

Douglas Northover/Martin Lovelace

 

 

 

 

The Meadows Where We Play Janet S Crouch

The Mole Race (1981)

John Eastwood

C.J.Creed, Broad Oak, Bridport,

 

 

2-00901774-u

The Spinners

Eden Philpotts

 Heinemann 191819

 

 

 

Three Dorset Captains (1905) A.M.Broadley & R.G.Bartelot Murray
Two Days One Summer Elizabeth Buckler Gale Creeds Bridport 978-0-9508717-1-4

Other related publications:

 

 

A book about smuggling in the West Country 1700-1850 Anthony D Hippisley Coxe

AD Hippisley Coxe, Tabb House, 11 Church Street, Padstow, Cornwall

    0 907018 32 7

Around Bridport

Keith Alner & Gerald Gosling The Chalford Publishing Company Limited, St. Mary's Mill, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL6 8NX     0 75240731 7

Discover Hardy Country

The Thomas Hardy Society, Dorchester

The West Country Tourist Board & The Southern Tourist Board (Friary Press)

 

 

 

Dorset - A County History

Peter Speed

Countryside Books, Newbury.

 

 

185306 284 7

Dorset at War

Diary of World War II

Rodney Legg

Dorset Publishing Company, Wincanton Press, National School, North Street, Wincanton, Somerset, BA9 9AT.

Out of Print - replaced by Wartime Dorset

(see below)

01963 32583

0 948699 16 7

Dorset Books   The Book Shop, Bridport www.dorsetbooks.com    

Dorset Countryside Book 1999

Dorset County Council

Tech Graphics

 

01305 224 258

(24 hours)

 

Dorset Hearth Tax          

Dorset Life

 

Dorset County Magazines

www.dorsetlife.co.uk

01929 551 264

 

Dorset   Poundbury Publishing Ltd., Agriculture House, Acland Road, Dorchester, Dorset, DT1 1EF

www.dorsetmag.co.uk

 

01305 266 360  

Dorset Volume I - West. A survey & Inventory by the Royal Commission of Historical Monuments, England.

 

Government Bookshops, P.O.Box 569, London SE1 9NH.

 

 

0-11-7--720-x

0-110700533-9

(different binding)

Dorset Walks

Ordnance Survey - Pathfinder Guide

Jarrold Publishing, Norwich

 

 

0-319-00294-2 (Ordnance Survey)

0-7117-0573-9 (Jarrold Publishing)

Dorset Wildlife Magazine

Brooklands Farm, Forston, Dorchester,

DT2 7AA.

Dorset Wildlife Trust

E-mail: dorsetwt@cix.co.uk

www.wildlifetrust.org.uk/dorset

01305 264 620

 

Farming in Dorset  

The Dovecote Press Ltd., Stanbridge, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 4JD

www.dovecotepress.com

01258 840 549

 
Fossils Richard Edmonds

The Dovecote Press Ltd., Stanbridge, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 4JD

www.dovecotepress.com

01258 840 549

1-874336-65 2
Births & Deaths info 1890's - Homewatch          
Extracts from "Homeworks" - Old Burton & Shipton Parish Magazine          
Geology Paul Ensom

The Dovecote Press Ltd., Stanbridge, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 4JD

www.dovecotepress.com

01258 840 549

1-874336-52 0

Geology of the Dorset Coast

Michael House

The Geologists Association, Benham & Company Ltd., Colchester.

 

 

0-70703-0485-7

Highways & Byways of Dorset Sir Frederick Treeves MacMillan Publications      
Rev. Richard Richards          

Shipwrecks

(Discover Dorset Series)

Maureen Attwooll

The Dovecote Press Ltd., Stanbridge, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 4JD

www.dovecotepress.com

01258 840 549

1-874336-59 8

Siganlling Station -Burton          
Smuggler - John Rattenbury & his adventures in Devon, Dorset & Cornwall 1788-1844 Eileen Hathaway Shinglepicker Publications, 28 Bonfields Aveneue, Swanage, Dorset, BH19 1PL     0-9522782 0 0
Smuggler's Tales Penny Jones Nigel J Clarke Publications, Tollgate Cottage, Tappers Knapp, Uplyme, Lyme Regis, Dorset     0 907683 05 3

Smugglers’ Trails - Pub Walks in Dorset

Carol Showell & Roger Guttridge

Red Post Books, Poole

 

01202 252 144

1-901533-00-X

Smuggling Days K Merle Chacksfield

Dorset Publishing Company, Knock-NA-CRE, Milborne Port, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9 5HJ

    0 902129 56 2
Smuggling in Hampshire & Dorset Geoffrey Morley Countryside Books      

The Coast of South Devon & Dorset between Branscombe & Burton Bradstock.

Geologists’ Association Guide No. 23 (1973)

Derek V. Ager & William E.Smith

The Geologists Association, Benham & Company Ltd., Colchester.

 

 

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The Faithful Sixth (1995) Harry Moses Durham County Books      
The Dorset Year Book   Sherrens Printers, Units 1&2 South Park, Avon Close, Granby Industrial Estate, Weymouth, Dorset   01305 785 265  

The History & Antiquities of the County of Dorset - Volume II

John Hutchins -

3rd. Edition by W.Shipp &

J.W. Hodson

  

E.P.Publishing Limited in collaboration with Dorset County Library.

 

 

0-85409-855-0

The Meadows Wher We Play Janet Sanderson Crouch Halkyon Press, Syringa, Tuesley Lane, Godalming, Surrey     1-872354-00-9

The Natural History of Dorset

The Dorset Wildlife Trust

The Dovecote Press Ltd., Stanbridge, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 4JD.

www.dovecotepress.com

01258 840 549

1 874336 41 5 (hardback)

The Prehistoric Age

(Discover Dorset)

Bill Putnam

The Dovecote Press Ltd., Stanbridge, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 4JD.

www.dovecotepress.com

01258 840 549

1 874336 62 8

The Romans Bill Putnam

The Dovecote Press Ltd., Stanbridge, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 4JD

www.dovecotepress.com

01258 840 549

1-874336-74 1
The White Ladies          
Wartime Dorset - The Complete History Rodney Legg

Dorset Publishing Company, Wincanton Press, National School, North Street, Wincanton, Somerset,

BA9 9AT

  01963 32583 0 948699 75 2

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