Since this thread started I have given a lot of thought to where my favourite place is in Dorset; being my birthplace and home for more than 50 years I have many 'favourites' but today I actually visited the one I think is top of my list. It only covers an area of a few square yards, and is the river behind the churchyard at Charminster, 2 miles north of Dorchester. Why is it my favourite place? Well, I could go on about 'peace, tranquillity, changeless..' but the real reason is I spent so much of my formative years there playing with the other children of my age, it has become a part of my life. I moved away from the village 35 years ago, but when my father died a few years ago we had his ashes buried in the part of the churchyard reserved fro cremation, right beside 'my' river, and so after so many years I now regularly go back to my favourite place! Second on the list? Hardy's Monument, because from there I can see so much of my home county - especially on a really clear day like it was today. Alan A J Brown Living in Bournemouth, England http://www.ajbrown.eu.com