| Holworth |
| Most coastal areas of the United Kingdom have stories
of smuggling and wrecking and Dorset is no exception to this rule and
at Ringstead and Osmington ills is a tiny hamlet called Holsworth which
stands on the smugglers route to Owermoigne. A tiny church dedicated to
St Catherine looks across to Weymouth Bay and the Isle of Portland and
nearby is an old farm that was used by the Abbot of Milton Abbey as a
resting place for the monks under his charge.The graveyard is the
resting place of many that perished in shipwrecks in the channel
not far from here. It was in 1887 that Dr Rober Linklater who used to to present the vicar of Milton Abbey with fresh prawns as a tithe but when he died the Oratory was closed and his widow built the little wood chapel we see today in 1926and when she passed away in 1942 it was the Holworth Trust who maintained it. There is a tile in the sanctuary that actually came from Milton Abbey in mediaeval times.
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