These maps normally cover an area of about 18 miles by 12 miles and are especially good at showing railways, roads and canals, and at giving a broad view of a wider area. Each includes an introduction and a more detailed map of a small town or village.

This Inch to the Mile map covers the area of north Dorset known as the Blackmore Vale, with smaller portions of Somerset to the NW and Wiltshire to the NE. Coverage stretches from North Wootton and Folke eastward to Win Green and Tarrant Hinton, and from Shaftesbury southward to Winterborne Stickland. Several small towns are shown: Blandford Forum, Shaftesbury, Sturminster Newtown, Milborne Port. There are many literary connections, especially with William Barnes and Thomas Hardy (the early chapters of Tess are set here). The area of Wiltshire in the NE corner includes Ferne and Ludwell though no full parishes are shown. The old Somerset & Dorset railway runs through the map. On the reverse is a detailed map of the small town of Stalbridge.

It is not possible to list the many hamlets, farmsteads and other topographical features shown on these maps. However, you might find it useful if we here list the majority of the principal villages and church parishes that are included on this map.
Dorset: Ashmore, Belchalwell, Bishops Caundle, Blandford Forum, Blandford St Mary, Buckland Newton, Caundle Marsh, Child Okeford, Compton Abbas, Durweston, East Orchard, East Stour, Fifehead Magdalen, Fifehead Neville, Fontmell Magna, Goathill, Hammoon, Hanford, Haselbury Bryan, Haydon, Hinton St Mary, Holnest, Holwell, Ibberton, Iwerne Courtney or Shroton, Iwerne Minster, Kington Magna, Langton Long Blandford, Lydlinch, Manston, Mappowder, Margaret Marsh, Marnhull, Melbury Abbas, North Wootton, Okeford Fitzpaine, Pimperne, Pulham, Purse Caundle, Shaftesbury, Shillingstone, Stalbridge, Steepleton Iwerne, Stoke Wake, Stour Provost, Stourpaine, Stourton Caundle, Sturminster Newton, Sutton Waldron, Tarrant Gunville, Tarrant Hinton, Tarrant Rawston, Todber, Turnworth, West orchard, West Stour, Winterborne Houghton, Winterborne Stickland, Woolland, Wootton Glanville.
Somerset: Charlton Horethorne, Henstridge, Horsington, Milborne Port, Stowell, Templecombe.