Corfe Mullen

Corfe Mullen calls itself a town, which is the sort of thing you announce at a parish meeting and then never mention again, because it is a village that got big and decided that was a personality. It has the pubs, the churches, the schools and the roundabouts, arranged with the calm confidence of somewhere that has never needed to be interesting to anyone who does not live there. The Romans built a fortress up the road and left inside twenty years, which is roughly the attention span Corfe Mullen inspires in outsiders and precisely why the people who stay tend to stay for good.