Bovington located in the beautiful county of Dorset is an excellent base for travellers wishing to enjoy and explore Bovington and it's surrounding area, which provides great lodgings ranging from fine hotels to basic bed and breakfast establishments and some great local hospitality so what ever accommodation you are looking for you will find it in and around Bovington.
Exploring Dorset's Bovington The Army's peace offering for mutilating miles of adjacent heath, which Thomas Hardy dubbed Egdon, is an excellent tank museum. It is located in the camp and contains more than 130 vehicles, both British and foreign, dating from 1900 to the present.
Clouds Hill, a former woodsman's or gamekeeper's house, is T. E. Lawrence's residence, located one mile north of Bovington camp. He discovered it derelict during his service in the Army, stationed at Bovington from 1923 to 1925, and rented and rebuilt it.
The house is still exactly as it was when he lived there, and it's fascinating. "Nothing matters," says the Greek inscription over the door.
The picturesque Woolbridge Manor, now a hotel, is just to the north of Wool, about two miles south east of the camp, and was previously the residence of the Turbervilles, where Hardy envisioned his Tess arriving for her honey moon.
Its façade, which is essentially Elizabethan, was rebuilt around 1652. It is also Elizabethan, as is the nearby historic bridge over the River Frome. Bindon Abbey, founded for Cistercians in 1172 and nestled in a charming garden, is about half a mile east of Wool. All under the shade of giant beech and sycamore trees, with head high walls, gloomy fishponds, and the open abbot's cotfin in which Hardy's Angel Clare walked in his sleep and placed his Tess. Wool is old, thatched, and charming around its church. The imposing structures near Winfrith, about one and a half miles west, are utilised for atomic energy research.
- Bovington Geolocation Latitude 50.69435° N Longitude -2.243385° E
- Bovington Postcode BH20
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