This is the first of two posts on the primordial role of the River Frome in creating the prosperous county town in which we now live. Since pre-Roman England wherever humans have tilled the soil, streams have been used to power waterwheels to mill the corn and other cereals grown by them. In the 1960s … Continue reading THE FROME – ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROSPERITY OF DORCHESTER (PART 1)