Shitterton
The hamlet of Shitterton, at the western end of Bere Regis. The name is said to mean "the farm by the stream used as an open sewer". The Victorians tried to introduce the alternative, more genteel spelling of 'Sitterton', but it never really caught on. The inhabitants are so proud of the original spelling that when the metal name sign at the edge of the village got stolen (repeatedly), they raised money for a stone replacement.
In 2010, the inhabitants [of Bere Regis] banded together to purchase a 1.5-tonne (1.7 U.S. ton) block of Purbeck Stone to place at the entrance to Shitterton, carved with the hamlet's name. More than half of the 50 households chipped in £20 each and a further £70 was contributed by Purbeck district council. A truck and crane were hired by volunteers to put the stone in place, at a total cost of £680. Ian Ventham explained: "We thought, 'Let's put in a tonne and a half of stone and see them try and take that away in the back of a Ford Fiesta'."
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Thatched cottages in Shitterton. Being down in a little valley beside the Bere Stream (which feeds into the River Piddle. No. Honestly.), the hamlet escaped the Great Fire that destroyed most of the thatched cottages in Bere Regis in 1788.
