Evershot

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Latest updated 13 May 2012

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For those not too well up in English geography, Dorset is a county on the south coast of England between Hampshire and Devon. The county town is Dorchester, about 9 miles from Evershot. West Dorset is a country of small valleys with farmland surrounding the villages. There are proper broadleaved woods, with trees randomly selfseeded instead of neat rows of pines.

Evershot is an increasingly rare village, having a church with a ring of six functional bells (practice night Tuesdays at 7:30pm), a post office/shop, a doctors' surgery (two sessions a week), a primary school, a bakery, an inn, a hotel and some light industry, all contained in a community of 181 people. This population includes children, but not hotel workers and other temporary residents who do not get themselves on the electoral roll.

Evershot is the second highest village in Dorset at 190m (625ft). Its national grid reference is ST 573 045. We are just off the A37 midway between Yeovil and Dorchester, signposted at the Holywell crossroads.

What's new
A team of volunteers is being recruited for an innovative piece of research in Dorset County Hospital: see here.
The plans for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations in the village are here.
The library bus dates for April 2012 onwards are here.
The lady who brings us fresh local fish has changed her day from Wednesdays to Tuesdays around lunchtime. See here.
The rubbish recycling dates for the rest of 2012 are here.
I hope everyone will vote in BT's Race to Infinity (www.racetoinfinity.bt.com) so that we can have a faster broadband connection. It costs nothing! And it will help all those small local enterprises who depend on it.
The Little Acorns now have their own website: see here.
An extraordinary picture of Evershot in the snow. Well worth a look here (scroll down to the bottom). Some new jokes from the always reliable Financial Times here. The "Weather" page has changed, and there's a new Evershot weather website! See here. It now includes a 5-day forecast for the southwest from the Met Office.

If you live or work in the village and would like to see something on the site that has not been thought of yet, please send me a message on the 'Have Your Say!' page. I can't promise to include all suggestions, but I would really like to have them all the same! There is now a page where I can put some of your emails: the first is an appreciative comment on the diary.

If you have never been to the village, come and visit us. We are quite friendly, and the village and the country round about have lots to offer you. So log off the web and take a trip down this way!

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