This beautiful and historic garden is set around a splendid ancient manor house. The property was once owned by Robert Cecil, chief minister to Elizabeth I, and it now the home of his decendant, Viscount Cranborne.

Clive Hannay and John Newth in one of Dorset’s most historic villages

1991 Census Information for Cranborne

Standing in an area of rolling chalk downland in East Dorset, is the ancient hunting ground of Cranborne Chase, extending to just over the Wiltshire border where it is at its highest, southwards to where the chalk dips below the surface and the landscape gives way to heathland.

Cranborne CE VA First School is a Voluntary Aided Church of England First School, founded in 1828, originally for the education of all children from 5 years until they left school at 14 or earlier. In 1963 it became a Primary School for children from 5 to 11 years, and in 1973 a First School for children aged 4 to 9 years.

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SUNDAY morning at Cranborne Manor often sees shadow cabinet ministers, political columnists, earls, Unionists, sculptors and East European dignitaries nursing hangovers together in the 18th-century dining room.

Cranborne FC currently consists of four teams and are affiliated to the Dorset County Football Association (DCFA). There are two Saturday afternoon sides, a Sunday morning team and and a under 18 Youth team which plays on Sunday afternoons.

Cranborne Middle School is fortunate in that it is set in the heart of beautiful Dorset countryside. Cranborne provides the important middle phase in your child's education, which provides the necessary transition from the basic skills taught by one teacher, as in the First School, to a variety of subjects taught by specialists as in the Upper School.

An old house with a seventeenth century garden which was re-discovered in the nineteenth century and planted in the Arts and Crafts style in the twentieth cnetury. The original design was by John Tradescant

La Fosse at Cranborne is a small, family-run 'Restaurant with Rooms', situated in the medieval village of Cranborne in northeast Dorset. Established for 20 years, the restaurant prides itself on utilising the freshest of local produce

One of Dorset's most attractive Inns and Restaurants ideally situated on the edge of the Cranborne Chase, close to the New Forest and the Coast

From the pages of Michael Day's Dorset Churches Web site at the University of Bath which aims to produce brief information about Dorset's church buildings

Cranborne Manor Nursery and Garden Centre, a massive selection of plants, specialising in Old Fashioned roses also the Manor Garden open to the public during the summer months

Situated on the south side of the old market square in the centre of the village, 'The Sheaf' occupies a site where an inn has stood for hundreds of years.

Until the 18th century, Cranborne was on the main road from Salisbury to the south coast ports. However in the 1750's the Great Western Turnpike road was built to the north and west of Cranborne and the town's trade declined.

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