Stanford Orcas
Aug. 13th, 2021 06:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
We've been away for a few days, staying in a small village called Stanford Orcas, which is in north-west Dorset, not far from the Somerset border.
Walking around I really expected to see Miss Marple step out of one of the cottages:

And head down the road, past the village school

and through the gateway to the Manor House, in order to visit Dolly Bantry.

Although on Sundays she would instead be going to the church

Then perhaps she would continue on past the mill stream

Or alternatively walk the other way to visit a friend, passing the Mitre Inn (where we stayed) en route.

Walking around I really expected to see Miss Marple step out of one of the cottages:


And head down the road, past the village school

and through the gateway to the Manor House, in order to visit Dolly Bantry.

Although on Sundays she would instead be going to the church


Then perhaps she would continue on past the mill stream

Or alternatively walk the other way to visit a friend, passing the Mitre Inn (where we stayed) en route.

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Date: 2021-08-13 06:37 pm (UTC)From what I can understand Orcas is the best the Saxon inhabitants could make of the name of the Norman lord who came to live there.
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Date: 2021-08-14 07:54 am (UTC)"Yes, my dear, I find it quite believable that your interest came from reading Miss Read's Fairacre books. I enjoy them myself. Far more pleasant than my nephew Raymond's grim tales - although I would never say that to the dear boy, of course.
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