Charminster

Charminster is the answer to a question Dorchester spent a century pretending nobody asked, which is where the people who want a Georgian rectory but not the county town's opening hours actually go. The village runs along a chalk stream with a church tower that has outlasted every scheme anyone has had for the place, and the surrounding fields are so thoroughly stuffed with Bronze Age burial mounds that the local definition of an old building starts somewhere around the Romans. Poundbury got the architecture columns and the royal patronage; Charminster got the same view without anyone writing a think piece about it. It suits people who like their countryside quiet and their history in the ground rather than on a plaque.