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to become Helen Lane and can be found located one street back from the harbour side behind the
harbourmasters office

Bridport

Forde Abbey The Saloon in this gem houses the celebrated Mortlake Tapestries. Based on the
cartoons by Raphael now on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, they depict scenes from
the lives of St Peter and St Paul. The Forde Abbey tapestries were made in approximately 1620 at
the London-based Mortlake Factory. The original tapestries were created for the Sistine Chapel at
the instigation of Pope Julius II and were first woven in Brussels in 1520.

Three Horseshoes is a family run, 300 year old thatched pub at Burton Bradstock. Take the
B3157. Recommended.

Charmouth

The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre. See amazing fossil collections and find out how to
discover your own fossils on the beach. Guided fossil hunting walks are a great day out on the
Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. With free entry to the Centre, meet the Charmouth Dinosaur
and explore the past and present of this incredible coastline.

Tolpuddle

In the 1830s life in villages like Tolpuddle was hard and getting worse. Farm workers could not
bear yet more cuts to their pay. Some fought back by smashing the new threshing machines but
this brought harsh punishments.

In 1834, farm workers in west Dorset formed a trade union. Unions were lawful and growing fast
but six leaders of the union were arrested and sentenced to seven years’ transportation for taking
an oath of secrecy. A massive protest swept across the country. Thousands of people marched
through London and many more organised petitions and protest meetings to demand their
freedom.

The protest campaign proved successful and the Tolpuddle Martyrs returned home in triumph.

The Tolpuddle story is about how ordinary working people combined together to defend their
families. The idea of solidarity as a basic human right is now an international demand.

Thus it was from here that the idea of industrial action to secure basic workers’ rights was
established.