Dorset’s Western Vale Book Launch
Dorset’s Western Vale by Sylvia Creed – is available to buy by email (sylviabluntshay@btinternet.com) and mobile (07876 820585).
After travelling in many parts of the world the author returned home to West Dorset to find a much-changed Marshwood Vale from her youth. In order to capture the changes she decided to research the social history of Whitchurch Canonicorum and other parts of the Marshwood Vale from approximately 1880 to 1985 before all recollection was lost of what was becoming another world.
The Western Vale book also includes 80 black and white photos, a map and legend of the parish of Whitchurch, local sayings a sample of the dialect, an index of people’s names from the text and an index of local place names used in the text.
First Published In 1986 Cost £12.00
