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Winterborne Came

This tiny hamlet is a place of pilgrimage for admirers of Dorset’s second most famous man of letters who is buried in the graveyard here. William Barnes was Rector of Winterborne Came from 1862 until his death in 1886 and in the old Rectory (not open to the public) he entertained such luminaries of English literature as Alfred Lord Tennyson and Hardy himself. Although Barnes was highly respected by fellow poets, his pastoral poems written in the distinctive dialect of the county never attracted a wide audience. At their best, though, they are marvellously evocative of the west Dorset countryside:

The zwellen downs, wi’ chalky tracks
A-climmen up their zunny backs,
Do hide green meads an zedgy brooks...
An’ white roads up athirt the hills.

Winterborne Came’s unusual name, incidentally, derives from the fact that in medieval times the village was owned by the Abbey of Caen in France.

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The Hidden Places of Dorset, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight

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Winterborne Came

The zwellen downs, wi’ chalky tracks A-climmen up their zunny backs, Do hide green meads an zedgy brooks... An’ white roads up athirt the hills.

Winterborne Came’s unusual name, incidentally, derives from the fact that in medieval times the village was owned by the Abbey of Caen in France.

Available Guidebooks for this region:

The zwellen downs, wi’ chalky tracks
A-climmen up their zunny backs,
Do hide green meads an zedgy brooks...
An’ white roads up athirt the hills.