Category: Rural Matters

The Rural Matters section is a special section sponsored and reserved for the local CPRE.

The CPRE or Campaign to Protect Rural England is a charity set up to help protect the rural countryside.

In this section you will find articles mainly by Rupert Hardy, Chairman, North Dorset CPRE. There are ocaisonally guest writers but always from the CPRE.

We like that the subject matter is wide and varied, from dark skies, to planning, hedgerow maintenance to Fingerposts.

Always something new and always interesting to read. The CPRE’s main aim is to help make the countryside a better place for us all to live.

Rural Matters

Meteor sighting in Dorset

The Blackmore Vale’s dark skies mean we may witness some rare events - one such event happened in the late evening of Sunday 5th...

Editorial team - 10 November 2021

Rural Matters

The World Becomes Welcoming and Good?

I love walking in the Dorset countryside, especially on the hills and downland. I gain a sense of achievement climbing to the top, which...

Editorial team - 17 October 2021

Rural Matters

The Ash Tree Crisis: A Disaster in the making

England fell into mourning in the 1970s as Dutch elm disease spread across the country, and yet we are reacting with insouciance to a...

Editorial team - 10 September 2021

Rural Matters

THE IMPORTANCE OF HEDGEROWS

In 2000 our future CPRE President, Bill Bryson, wrote: “For well over a thousand years hedgerows have been a defining attribute of rural England,...

Editorial team - 16 August 2021

Rural Matters

Fingerposts: Dorset Icons

Dorset’s fingerposts are an iconic sight; the old road signs featuring a white or occasionally red metal roundel, with arms, known as fingers, pointing...

Editorial team - 18 July 2021

Rural Matters

LOCKDOWN LITTER PICKING

With fewer visitors to the countryside in the time of Covid, it was hoped that there would be an equivalent reduction in the amount...

Editorial team - 8 June 2021

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Bucked in the Yarn

Editorial team - 11 September 20240

Three small Somerset villages had a huge impact on global exploration and trade – Rachael Rowe talks to Professor Terry Stevens “Nothing much ever happened...

Dorset Politics

Exclusive: Charles Church – plus Dorset’s biodiversity crisis | BV podcast

LauraHitchcock - 15 September 20240

The BV has an exclusive interview with renowned equestrian painter Charles Church, and Jenny sits down with council leader Nick Ireland to discuss biodiversity,...