| Dewlish |
| Where the Dorset chalk hills form a
valley to let the Devil's Brook flow under a small arched bridge the
village of Dewlish is formed by a mixture of dwellings on the slopes,
this is a pleasant place where dinosaurs and mammoths freely
roamed, and this would not bave been discovered if it had not been for a
busy little mouse and a diligent geologist who novice that the mousehole
was filled with sand and this was in fact a place of chalk! Excavations were started and not only was a sand layer discovered but the remains of animals that were long forgotten, bones of elephants who were thought to stand about 17 feet and now in the Museum at Dorchester. These huge animals roamed here long before the Ice Age and long before the Romans who also settle here. The church is Norman and is approached by an avenue of yews that are so think and matted that they blot out the sun causing a dank darkened nave which would not seem out of place in the depths of an Indonesian jungle! The doorway is Norman but the rest of the church is a collection of various fabrics that date back to various dates. A mediaeval settlement is found in the form of earthworks behind the church and just above the church is the flint and stone manor house built around 1632 while opposite is a 19th century imitation of a 17th century building which is now used as the village hall.
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