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The rolling landscape of Dorset has been the home to many generations of the country's great and good over the centuries. In many respects their most remarkable monuments are the innumerable country houses that enliven Dorset's countryside, from Athelhampton to Milton Abbey and from Bryanston to Mapperton. Some are still in the hands of the families who built them. Others have seen many owners come and go over the years. Such homes were the height of fashion in their time and are now the rural heart of English heritage. Rodney Legg's choice includes several homes which are open to an admiring public but others are still secret seats in their own private parks.

He also gives concise histories of numerous manors and smaller country houses. Many of their names also overlap with the lineage of families in the great houses. The linkage makes for a fascinating on-going story of personalities and their buildings including contributions to literature and national events.

Some of the names featured in Dorset Families:Ashley, Bankes, Bingham, Bond, Bourke, Bragge, Browne, Brune, Calcraft, Cecil, Chafin, Churchill, Clavell, Cooke, Cooper, Damer, Digby, Drax, Erle, Fox, Gerard, Goodden, Greathed, Grey, Grosvenor, Hambro, Hanham, Henning, Herbert, Horsey, Hoskyns, Howard, Hussey, Knoyle, Lawrence, Lees, Makepeace, Marten, Martyn, Medlycott, Mohun, Monro, Montagu, Napier, Oglander, Phillips, Pickard, Pinney, Pitt, Pitt-Rivers, Pleydell, Portman, Rhodes-Moorhouse, Robinson, Roper, Russell, Samways, Scott, Seymour, Sheridan, Stafford, Strangways, Strode, Sturt, Tregonwell, Trenchard, Turberville, Weld, Williams, Wingfield Digby, Wyndham, Yeatman.

Hardcover; 297 x 210mm hardback 160 pages, illustrated in black and white.