Welcome to Dorset Allsorts

We'll be posting a variety of facts and photos of whatever takes our fancy as we wander around Dorset. They may be of churches, buildings, visitor attractions or natural scenes – in fact there will be all sorts! We hope they will give you a glimpse of some of the sights this beautiful county has to offer.



Showing posts with label Scratchy Bottom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scratchy Bottom. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 June 2010

Scratchy Bottom

The wonderfully named Scratchy Bottom is a cliff-top valley in the Purbecks and was used for some of the scenes in the 1967 film Far from the Madding Crowd.  We walked through the valley on our way to Durdle Door and just couldn't resist taking a photo of this milestone as it really made us chuckle (childish as we are!)  We've been pondering ever since how it may have got its name.....