11-418: West Milton can refer to: West Milton, Dorset West Milton, New York West Milton, Ohio West Milton, Vermont [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
22-413: A Middelton was the middle homestead of a group. "West" distinguishes it from Milton Abbas near Blandford Forum . West Milton has long been a dependent chapelry of Powerstock. It had a Mediæval chapel of St Mary Magdalene , and in 1869 the architect GR Crickmay of Weymouth designed a new Gothic Revival chapel to replace it. This was built on a new site 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 m) west of
33-632: A registered charity, was launched in 1973 with an appeal for funds, at first intending to acquire and conserve Eggardon Hill in Dorset. Instead, in 1976 the trust bought the island of Steep Holm in the Bristol Channel for £10,000, and runs it as a nature reserve. The Sunday Times instituted a Kenneth Allsop Memorial Essay Competition, which took place annually until 1986. The Allsop Gallery, an exhibition space in Bridport Arts Centre , Dorset,
44-774: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kenneth Allsop Kenneth Allsop (29 January 1920 – 23 May 1973) was a British broadcaster, author and naturalist. Allsop was born on 29 January 1920 in Holbeck , Leeds , West Riding of Yorkshire . He was married in St Peter's Church, Ealing , in March 1942. He served in the R.A.F. in the Second World War and had a leg amputated after an injury on an assault course, which left him in constant pain. In 1958 he wrote an account of 1950s British literature, The Angry Decade , at
55-645: Is on the Mangerton River, a tributary of the River Asker . West Milton is part of Powerstock civil parish . The name "Milton" is a contraction of "Middleton". The Domesday Book of AD 1086 records it as Mideltone . An entry for 1212 in the Book of Fees records it as Midelton . It is derived from the Old English middel-tūn . The word tūn originally meant "fence", but came to mean "enclosure" or "homestead". Hence
66-588: The 1960s. He was also Rector of Edinburgh University and won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize . He was an obvious choice as a guest in the first series of the long-running naturalist radio programme Sounds Natural on BBC Radio 4 on 24 May 1971. The inquest into his death recorded an open verdict , despite having found that it was brought about by an overdose of barbiturates . He is buried at Powerstock in Dorset . The Kenneth Allsop Memorial Trust,
77-411: The 19th-century church was demolished. The village used to have two pubs: The Leopard (now Leopard Cottage) and The Red Lion (now Red Lion Cottages). Further, there are records of ale being sold from 'The Ship' inn, however it is not known where this was in the village. In the hamlet of Mangerton, on the river about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of West Milton is an early 19th-century watermill. It
88-488: The end of which he remarked that: "In this technologically triumphant age, when the rockets begin to scream up towards the moon but the human mind seems at an even greater distance, anger has a limited use. Love has a wider application, and it is that which needs describing wherever it can be found so that we may all recognise it and learn its use." Allsop was a regular reporter for the BBC current affairs programme Tonight during
99-601: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=West_Milton&oldid=1203078464 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages West Milton, Dorset West Milton is a small village in western Dorset , in South West England , about 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Bridport and 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Powerstock . The village
110-576: The old one and completed in 1874. It was a stone building with a spirelet on one side and an apse at one end. In 1873–76 the body of the Mediæval chapel was dismantled and re-erected in Powerstock as an extension to the parish school. Only the embattled west tower was left in West Milton. This was built about 1500 and is now both a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade II* listed building . In 1976
121-458: Was a grist and flax mill, and last worked commercially in 1966. It has since been a tourist attraction and café. West Milton had its own watermill on the same river. The mill was the home of the writer and broadcaster Kenneth Allsop until his death in 1973. Here he wrote In the Country , a collection of essays mostly about the surrounding Dorset countryside. This Dorset location article
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