Victorian & Edwardian Dorset

Dorset in Victorian and Edwardian times was (as now) a predominantly rural county, but one suffering from the agricultural depression. Rider Haggard reports (1901) on a long expedition across country meeting just four other vehicles. ''Three of them were brewers'' drays, and the fourth was a timberdrag.'' The ''decay of agriculture'' was accompanied by the steady, century-long exodus from the coun...