Great News for the Piddle Valley

Mark and Emily Hammick are pleased to announce that this year The Gaggle of Geese has won the Rural Enterprise award for the Wessex region in the Countryside Alliance Awards.  The couple also won last year with their other pub the European Inn.

The Countryside Alliance Awards, now in their fifth year, aim to celebrate the characters, skills, traditions and enterprise of the countryside through the people who work so hard to make it tick. This year’s awards attracted a record 2,500 nominations from the public.

Mark and Emily were delighted to get through to the finals for the second year running and Mark said, “It is also good to see that in the Daily Telegraph Traditional Business Award category. Mendit Rug and Tack, from Piddlehinton, Dorchester, were the Wessex winners. Great news for the Piddle Valley. “So we will both be off to the House of Lords 3 February for a reception where the national winners will be announced.”

The Gaggle of Geese is at Buckland Newton near Dorchester.