Cattistock, Dorset - Tobogganing, general view in snow - local postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  Tobogganing at Cattistock [Dorset] - shows children tobogganing down hill with village in distance
• Publisher: Dorset Federation of Women's Institutes
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Cattistock is a village and civil parish in west Dorset, England, sited in the upper reaches of the Frome Valley, 8 miles (13 km) northwest of the county town Dorchester. The Dorset poet William Barnes called it "elbow-streeted Cattstock",^[2] a comment on the less-than-linear village street. In the 2011 census the parish had a population of 509.^[

A church was built here in the 12th century by the monks of Milton Abbey, though this structure has not survived.^[3]The current church, dedicated to St Peter and St Paul,^[3] was rebuilt in the 19th century by architects Sir George Gilbert Scott and his son George Gilbert Scott Junior. The Perpendicular-styled tower was the work of the latter, and has led to the church being dubbed the 'Cathedral of the Frome Valley'; he was also responsible for the porch, north aisle and vestry.^[4] A carillon of 35 bells was installed in the new tower a few years after its construction. This was the first carillon to be introduced to England and attracted hundreds of visitors to the valley, though the bells were destroyed by a fire in the tower on 15 September 1940.^[2][5] The fire also destroyed the very large clock, which previously almost spanned the width of the tower.^[2] In 1972 the Pevsner guide to Dorset architecture said that "for the mid- to late-nineteenth century, this is the masterpiece amongst Dorset churches".^[2]

Nearly 1.75 miles (2.82 km) north of the village is Chantmarle, a house dating from the 15th century, with additions in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries.^[6] It received its name—which means "song of the blackbird" in Norman French—from the Chauntmerles family, who lived on the site in the early 13th century.^[7] In 1910 Inigo Thomas designed new end wings and a terraced garden with ponds.^[2][8] In the late 20th century Chantmarle was used as a centre for police training.^[2] It is now a Christian retreat and wedding reception venue.^[7]