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Little Piddle Village Green. The upright post in the foreground is a nesting post for the rare `Ozzum Bird` that nests only on the Green every twenty one and a half years.
The `Great Guzunder` or `Thunder Pot` now on proud display in Little Piddle Museum. The item was reputedly used by Charles the First (1625-49).
Daniel Defoe (Author of Robinson Crusoe) mentioned `Little Piddle` in a deleted chapter of his book published in the 1700s `A Tour Thro` The Whole Island Of Great Britain`
The chapter was deleted from the first publication on the advice from Defoe`s Lawyers.
Thomas Hardy the Author mentioned `Little Piddle` as `Waterflow` in many of his works..
Hampton
Hall, Little Piddle, Dorset
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Piddle Passions
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(A Guide)
Local Legends, Local Walks, Little Piddle Poetry, Statues and Follies, Line Dancing, Odd Local Bylaws, Local Festivals and Events
Soon to be available from Hampton Hall at £3.50 plus 75 pence postage and packing.
Little Piddle Bandstand,Little Piddle Park.
Here, and on the Village Green a Village Fair is held every year. Storytellers and Poets of all kinds perform to rapt audiences whilst local children enjoy candy floss and toffee apples kindly sponsored by Little Piddles` friendly Private Dentist.
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We Piddle Men are standing proud,
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We say again, and say out loud!
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We Piddle Men are proud to say;
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`We Piddle, Piddle every day!`
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Oh, Piddle River that proudly flows
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from far upstream,
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to where - God knows!
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To Piddle we are proud to do,
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and make our Piddle plain to view,
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But how we shake and how we tremble,
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when we think of `Number Two*!`
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Cuthbert Clinch (1850-1935)
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Village Poet and Undertaker
*Number Two: A derogatory term that the villagers have for the growing city of Big Piddle that is slowly encroaching on them from the North.
Famous Inventors from Little Piddle
Fred Clavicle (1850-1910) inventor of steam driven false teeth.
Julius F. Hozhalf inventor invisible writing paper.
Henry Alexander Follen, originator of the `Follen Theory of Male Pattern Hair Loss` (who`s first and only rule states `It just lets go...`)
All these Great Minds sleep in sweet repose in the weeping-willow shaded confines of the little churchyard of St Bidolphs-on-the-Bog, the small Medieval church in the centre of the village.