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The Great Dorset Steam Fair (abbreviated GDSF, and since 2010 also known as The National Heritage Show) was an annual show featuring steam-powered vehicles and machinery held in Dorset, England. It covered 600 acres (2.4 km 2) and ran for five days. This used to be from the Wednesday after the UK August bank holiday, but from 2016 to 2022 was ...
Chickerell, Dorset: 2004- Cromford Steam Rally [12] Brackenfield, Derbyshire: 38 years (as of 2008) Dacorum Steam & Country Fayre [13] Dacorum, Hertfordshire: 2007- Great Dorset Steam Fair: Dorset: 1968- Grand Henham Steam Rally: Henham Park, Blythburgh, Suffolk: 1974- Haddenham Steam Rally and Heavy Horse Show [14] Haddenham, Cambridgeshire: 1974-
A line of traction engines at the Great Dorset Steam Fair 2005 Tarrant Hinton is well known as the location of the Great Dorset Steam Fair , which is annually visited by some 200,000 people. Governance
The chalk hills of Cranborne Chase and the Dorset Downs lie immediately northeast and southwest respectively. In the 2011 census the civil parish had 277 dwellings, [1] 265 households and a population of 617. [2] It was the original site of the Great Dorset Steam Fair, which has been held at nearby Tarrant Hinton in more recent years.
From 1860 to 1966, Blandford Forum was a stop on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, which ran from Bath to Bournemouth, though until the bridge was built over the river Stour, opening in 1863, [48] the Dorset Central section of the line terminated at the hamlet of Blandford St. Mary. [49] Blandford Forum railway station, along with the ...
Working scale model at Lincoln steam fair 2008 Richard Hornsby & Sons was an engine and machinery manufacturer in Grantham , Lincolnshire, England from 1828 until 1918. The company was a pioneer in the manufacture of the oil engine developed by Herbert Akroyd Stuart , which was marketed under the Hornsby-Akroyd name.
The Iron Maiden at the Great Dorset Steam Fair, 2007. A steam fan from a young age, aged 22 Marchington bought his first steamroller from haulage contractor and scrap dealer Ted Eansworth in Chesterfield. The collection that he started with his father eventually became the Buxworth Steam Group, which comprised a full working Victorian fair, and ...
Dorset hosts a number of annual festivals, fairs and events including the Great Dorset Steam Fair near Blandford, purported to be the largest outdoor event in Europe, [27] and the Bournemouth Air Festival, a free show that attracts 1.3 million visitors. [28]