Corscombe

About

Corscombe lies in lovely wooded country north of Beaminster with its main street climbing up the chalk hillside. It commands splendid views over Somerset from the upper road and is one of the most peaceful parts of Dorset. The famous republican Thomas Hollis lived here, benefactor of many universities including Harvard. He renamed many of the fields and farms in the valley after eighteenth century buzz words such as republic, revolution toleration etc. The man was an odd character and had radical views on diet, rejecting alcohol, milk, sugar and butter.