The West Dorset Area

Visit Southwest

This is the Tourist Board site for South West England, covering Dorset and the whole of the South West for Hotels, B&Bs, Cottages, Attractions, Events and Farmers markets.

» www.visitsouthwest.co.uk

West Dorset

The West Dorset site provides a lot of local information and further links, and also has a local area map for downloading.

http://www.westdorset.com

Bridport Radio

For news and useful up to the minute information about Bridport, the Bridport Radio site is a good bet:

» www.bridportradio.co.uk

Recycling Support

Bridport TLC

This is a local non-profit recycling enterprise which, among other things, supplies us with our biodiesel.

» www.bridport-tlc.org.uk

Woodworking Information

The Bodgers

The Bodgers website (or, more correctly, the Association of Pole Lathe Turners and Green Woodworkers) is the place to look for everything you ever wanted to know about bodging and bodging events.

» www.bodgers.org.uk

Artists and Crafts-People

Dorset Art Weeks

Here you will find details of over 600 artists, makers and galleries in Dorset:

» www.dorsetartweeks.co.uk

Living Wood

Mike Abbott - the Guru of Green woodwork and author of "Living Wood" - the 'bible' that we sell. Mace Brightwater trained with Mike.

» www.living-wood.co.uk

i tre furniture

Petter Southall is also local and specialises in steam bending; also works to commission:

» www.itrefurniture.co.uk

Designer Makers

This site is run by a group of leading Designer Makers in the UK, specialising in furniture:

» www.designermakers.org.uk

Ashridge Trees

Asridge trees supply us with all of our needs for planting (including 700 whips used to plant our 'heritage' hedge), are very helpful and a mine of knowlege. They will deliver throughout the UK. They come highly recommended for hedging, standards, fruit trees and soft fruit.

» www.ashridgetrees.co.uk