by
Amanda Loverseed, Author & Illustrator
Oh to be in England now that Summer Lodge is here!
(with no apologies to Browning)
Originally built by the Ilchesters c1788 extended in 1893 using
Thomas Hardy as the architect and sold to the Corbetts in 1979.
 The
comfortable and airy Drawing Room has Margaret's delightful flower
arrangements.
Dinners are a veritable feast!
Gently cooked local produce is served in the Dining Room which looks
onto the terrace and walled garden.
Dorset Horns graze contentedly below Pilsdon Pen with views over
Marchwood Vale to the cliffs and Lyme Bay. In spring primoses and
violets abound, then bluebells, campion and wild garlic way to many
species of orchid and all manner of wild flowers.
A hard day at Summer Lodge!
Don't play Croquet if you want to keep your friends!
Worked up an appetite for dinner on the hard tennis court.
Hot coffee, Freshly, baked croissants and Margaret's scrumptious
marmalade in bed - utter bliss!
Golfers have a choice of 12 courses within easy reach. Riding stables
are nearby while anglers have some fine trout lakes.
Soaked up the sunshine by the secluded pool, which I was glad to find
was over 85%F (open May to October). For the hardy the sea is only 12
miles.
I was thrilled to find the Whistler Windows at Moreton
The Deer Park at Melbury House
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St. Osmond's Church
'The Rude man of Dorset'
'Tess Cottage' just beyond the church
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| Lyme Regis and it's
bay - hunting for pirates has given way to fossils from the
Jurassic period. |
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Forde Abbey, Kingston Lacy,
Parnham House,
Barrington Court,
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Montacute House, Hardy's Cottage,Tintinhull,
Hadspen,
Sherborne Castles,Athelhampton,
Yeovil Aircraft Museum,
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Abbotsbury Swannery and Sub-Tropical
Gardens, Compton House Butterfly Farm,
Sealife Park, Dorset County Museum
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I'll hurry back! |
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