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2 unusual facts about Blandford Forum


Blandford fly

The Blandford fly's English common name derives from a major outbreak of people being bitten around the town of Blandford Forum in Dorset, England, in the 1960s and 1970s.

Christopher Lawne

Christopher Lawne was an English merchant and Puritan of note, born in Blandford, Dorset, who emigrated to Virginia Colony on the Marygold in May 1618 and died the following year.


Arthur H. Clark

Clark was born in Blandford Forum, Dorset, in the United Kingdom, and migrated to Australia with his family in 1963.

Dorset Opera Festival

Dorset Opera Festival is an annual country house opera festival combining amateur and professional performers, which takes place at Bryanston near Blandford Forum in Dorset, England.

Hans Hickmann

Hans Robert Hermann Hickmann (b. Roßlau, Germany, May 19, 1908; d. Blandford Forum, England, September 4, 1968) was an eminent German musicologist.

Henry Richard Farquharson

Farquharson was born at Brighton and became the owner of a large estate at Eastbury House, Tarrant Gunville (near Blandford Forum in Dorset).

Malcolm Messiter

Messiter began playing the oboe at the age of 15 whilst a student at Bryanston School in Blandford Forum, Dorset.

Percy Hardy

Frederick Percy Hardy, born at Blandford Forum, Dorset on 26 June 1880, and died at King's Cross railway station, London, on 9 March 1916, was a cricketer who played first-class cricket for Somerset.


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