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A village built along the A350 which runs north-south along the valley of the river Stour.
The Stour Valley Way runs through the village. Downstream to Christchurch it is managed by Greenlink, upstream to to Stourhead by the North Dorset Countryside Rangers.
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Monica Hutchins records the memoirs of Arthur Field, vicar of Spetisbury and Charlton Marshall, in her book about the Stour (Dorset River). In the Rev. Field's time, in the early 20th century, large numbers of eels were taken from hatches near the ancient Crawfrod Bridge for sale in Blandford Forum and Wimborne Minster.
Records show that a bridge must have existed here before 1235 when forty days of indulgence were granted to any who contributed to the structure's repair. The present Crawford Bridge, one of the twenty oldest in the county, probably dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries.
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