Evershot
A small village in Dorset
Photo
© 2000 Dorset County Council, to whom our thanks for their
permission to use it here
Latest update 20 July 2008
What's new on the site
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 7pm), a post office/shop, a doctors' surgery (three 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 The "Weather" page has changed, and there's a new Evershot website! See here. Plus news of the Post Office here.
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!
You are visitor number
All content © the various owners 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008