Welcome to the Tolpuddle and Southover Website
Welcome to all our visitors
Welcome to the Tolpuddle and Southover village website . The site is for residents and for visitors to the area with the aim of providing useful information for the community of Tolpuddle, Southover and the surrounding villages as well as valuable tourist information and a little history thrown in too. Information about local events, groups and organisations, and activities together with news items will, we hope, help to keep people informed and in touch. We hope you enjoy it.
Quick Links:
Top Three Pages for What's Current in Tolpuddle:
News
Event Listings
Regular Activities and Classes
For Full 2024 Events - so far - please see the Events Listings page
Next Upcoming Events in brief (please click on item or go to Events Listings for full info)
Tolpuddle Family Lives: Talk: Rural Working Class Clothing and Change in Victorian England
Wednesday, 24 April, 2024 at 7pm || Tolpuddle Old Chapel
Quiz Night at the Martyrs Inn
Thursday, 25 April, 2024 at 7.30pm
Tolpuddle Family Lives - Dorset Button Making Workshops || Tolpuddle Old Chapel
Saturday, 27 April || 5 Workshops - FREE
Live Music: Sea Folk and Regional Folk Songs || ForeSail || Martyrs Inn
Saturday, 27 April, 2024 from 19.00
Soap Making Talk by Leigh Gibb of Pidela House || Tolpuddle Village Hall
Tuesday, 30 April, 2024 at 7pm
Book Club in the Martyrs Inn
Wednesday, 1 May, 2024 || 7pm
Dorset Council and Parish Council Elections || Tolpuddle Village Hall
Thursday, 2 May, 2024
Tolpuddle Family Lives - Dorset Button Making Workshops || Tolpuddle Old Chapel
Saturday, 4 May || 5 Workshops - FREE
Live Music - Rodney Branigan || Tolpuddle Village Hall
Saturday, 4 May, 2024. Doors open 7.30pm
Bubble Church || Puddletown Village Hall
Sunday, 5 May at 16.00
Tolpuddle Village Hall AGM || Village Hall
Tuesday, 7 May, 2024 at 18.45
Talk: The Lives of Tolpuddle's Landless || Tolpuddle Old Chapel
Wednesday, 8 May, 2024 at 19.00
Knit and Natter || Tolpuddle Old Chapel
Every 2nd Friday of the Month || 10 May, 2024
St John's Church Annual General Meeting
Sunday, 12 May, 2024 at 16.30 || St John's Church
Puddletown Area Parish Council Meeting
Tuesday, 14 May, 2024 at Puddletown Village Hall 7pm
Talk: Drowning the Landscape || Tolpuddle Old Chapel
Wednesday, 15 May, 2024 at 19.00
West Country Folk Tunes || Tolpuddle Old Chapel
Saturday, 18 May, 2024 at 14.00
Technology / IT Support || Tolpuddle Village Hall
Tuesday, 21 May, 2024 from 14.00 - 16.00
Tolpuddle Family Lives - Dorset Button Making Workshops || Tolpuddle Old Chapel
Saturday, 29 May || 5 Workshops - FREE
Talk: 150 Years of Courtroom Drama || Tolpuddle Old Chapel
Wednesday, 29 May, 2024 at 19.00
Quiz Night in the Martyrs Inn
Thursday, 30 May, 2024 at 7.30 pm
Concert in the Church || St John's Church
Sunday, 2 June, 2024 at 4pm
Puddletown Area Parish Council Meeting
Tuesday, 11 June, 2024 at Tolpuddle Village Hall 7pm
Knit and Natter || Old Chapel
Friday, 14 June, 2024 10.30 - 12.30
Casino Night || Tolpuddle Village Hall
Cocktails and Live Jazz
Saturday, 22 June, 2024
Quiz Night in the Martyrs Inn
Thursday, 27 June, 2024 at 7.30 pm
Go the the Events Page for Events July onwards.........
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Latest Website Update
15 April, 2024: Updates: Events and News
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Please do contact us if you have any information, updates or ideas which you think may be useful on the site, we would be really glad to hear from you.
Contact
Email || the Village Website at: tolpuddlevillagewebsite@gmail.com
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Tolpuddle and Southover Website || Site Map
For information and help to navigate, view pages and sub-pages, here is a concise map of the website. Either use the drop down menus above or click on the links below:
Home
About Tolpuddle and Southover
- Literary Connections
- Local Artists
- Gallery || Old Tolpuddle
News
- News Archive
Groups and Organisations
- Village Hall
- St John's Church
- History of St John's
- Methodist Chapel
- The Martyrs, Museum and Festival
- Tolpuddle Old Chapel
- Tolpuddle Events Committee (TEC)
- Tolpuddle Toddlers
- Tolpuddle 150 Club
- Village Phone Box Information Point
- Parish Council
- Tolpuddle Village Meetings
Events and Activities
- Event Listings
- Regular Activities and Classes
- The NET
- Tolpuddle Events Committee
- TEC Who's Who
- TEC Constitution
- TEC Meetings, Minutes & Reports
- TEC and Easy Fundraising
- Past Events Archive 2024
- Past Events Archive pre 2024
The Martyrs Inn
The Martyrs Inn - Community Purchase Timeline