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The inhabitants of Melcombe Regis paid for the cutting of a white horse at Osmington to celebrate the connection with George III. It is said that he was angry because he is depicted riding out of the town rather than entering it.
The geographer Charles Bungay Fawcett (1883–1952), regarded as "one of the founders of modern British academic geography" and an early promoter of the idea of regional planning, was born into a farming family in Staindrop, County Durham, and went to school in nearby Gainford.
I don't think that there is a place called Kingscombe or Kingcombe.
There's a Nature Reserve called Kingscombe Meadows, and a Centre called Kingcombe, both of which are on the line of the River Hooke, but neither of them are in a settlement that bears either of those names.
The Dorset Ooser is a wooden head that featured in the 19th-century folk culture of Melbury Osmond before it went missing around 1897. In 1975, a replica of the original Ooser was produced by John Byfleet, and it has since been on display at Dorset County Museum in Dorchester.
During the Second World War the Shoeburyness Boom, which ran across the Thames Estuary to protect shipping from submarine attack, ran from Royal Oak Point (near Minster) to Shoeburyness in Essex.