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| Bloxworth can be found in an undulating
wooded area six miles north by west from Wareham, it consists of a few
brick houses with modern developments and the ancient church of St
Andrew was rebuilt in 1879 with typical Victorian vigour leaving an out
of place chancel. The Rev Octavius Pickard-Cambridge was responsible for this and he was the rector here from 1868 till his death in 1917, he was said to be an expert on spiders having named over 800 new species and for publishing his book 'Spiders of Dorset'. Bloxworth House was built of brick in the 17th century and is sometimes open to the public and it was one of the Dorset homes of the Strode family, and their coat of arms is painted on the family pew in the village church. Also in the church are memorial to the Trenchard and Pickering familys, the manorial pew has fresco armorial designs that belong to the Savages who were lords of the manor previous to the year 1700. This is one of the very few churches where the original hour glass and stand, by which, after the Reformation, the length of the sermon was regulated, still exists. The school was built in 1874.
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