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Portland Museum is situated in the district of Easton on the Isle of Portland.The museum was founded in 1930 by Dr Marie Stopes, the museum's first curator and famous birth control pioneer. Housed in two picturesque cottages nestling above Church Ope Cove. One cottage inspired the author Thomas Hardy to centre his famous novel "The Wellbeloved" around it, making it the home of Avice, the novel's heroine.
The museum has recently been transferred from Weymouth & Portland Borough Council to Portland Museum Trust.
Access by car or bus. There are no trains on Portland.
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Accommodation
Rockley Park caravans Bournemouth Dorset
FROM: From £170 per week
On the south coast of Dorset is Rockley Park which has a selection of privately owned caravans.
Business
The Udder Farm Shop
The Udder Farm Shop is a food hall similar to Fortnum and Mason teeming with aisles of mouth-watering local produce and located in a picturesque village called East Stour in the Blackmore Vale Dorset.
The Udder Farm Shop is a food hall similar to Fortnum and Mason teeming with aisles of mouth-watering local produce and located in a picturesque village called East Stour in the Blackmore Vale Dorset.
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