Thursday 18th July 2019

We left our home in Devon today and headed east into Dorset. We're going to the Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival. This happens every year in the Dorset village of Tolpuddle. The Festival is organised by the Trades Union Congress to commemorate the martyrdom of a handful of agricultural workers in the 19th Century who were transported to a penal colony in Australia for trying to form a Trade Union in response to their wages being cut. They were finally pardoned and returned to Britain after a massive public outcry. Every working person to this day owes an enormous debt of gratitude to these heroic founders of the Trade Union Movement! We stopped for the day at the village of Piddletrenthide.

We are staying overnight in the car park of the Piddle Inn.

The pub is situated on the banks of the river Piddle.

We went for a brief walk around the village.

The pub car park soon filled up - it's lucky we got here early!

We went for a meal in the pub. I got us a couple of pints of Piddle.

Ann had fish and chips and I had various sorts of fish, crustaceans and molluscs. We shared a pudding.

Today we travelled 85 miles (137 kilometres). We are at N50.79668 W2.42007

Piddletrenthide     Street View