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Extract from the Blandford Forum Travel Guides:
BLANDFORD FORUM
, the gateway into mid-Dorset from Bournemouth, owes its latinate name not to the Romans but to medieval pedantry - the original Saxon name Cheping, meaning "market", was translated as Forum by Latin-speaking tax officials in the thirteenth century. The Romans weren't far away, however - their main route from Old Sarum to Dorchester ran through the Iron Age fortification of Badbury Rings, just east of the town, where it made an uncharacteristic bend.
In 1731 Blandford was all but destroyed by fire, the fourth such conflagration since the end of the sixteenth century. The phoenix that rose from the...
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