Poxwell

Sign up. A BEDROOM fire brought out three crews of fire fighters. The crews from Weymouth, Dorchester and Portland were called to the blaze in Poxwell at 9.10pm yesterday. It was extinguished using one hose reel jet. No residents of the home were ...

A romantic manor house which features in Thomas Hardy's novel The Trumpet Major is up for sale with a guide price of £3,250,000. Poxwell Manor in Dorset is so idyllic that its current owner bought it twice – selling it when he moved abroad, and then ...

This graceful manor house looks like something straight out of a Thomas Hardy novel . . . which is just what it was. Poxwell Manor was used by Hardy in The Trumpet-Major as the main residence of the story's heroine. It is now on the market for £3.25 ...

But when the real-life inspiration for the hall, Poxwell Manor in Dorset, went on sale for £3.25 million, the particulars tactfully omitted Hardy's unflattering description, opting instead to stress its rather more 21st century assets, including a ...

With ivy-covered walls and idyllic gardens, it is little wonder this Grade I-listed property inspired romance in one of Britain's great Victorian writers. Poxwell Manor, near Dorchester, Dorset, was featured in Thomas Hardy's The Trumpet-Major as the ...

A WOMAN in her 80s was seriously injured in a two-car crash on the outskirts of Weymouth. Emergency services rushed to the scene on the A353 near Poxwell just after 4pm yesterday after a silver Citroen C3 and a silver Volvo estate were in collision at ...