Literature
Blandford features in Thomas Hardy's novels as the Wessex town of "Shottesford Forum".
In 1590, Edmund Spenser mentioned the town in The Faerie Queene.
Blandford Forum railway station which is now gone—the train line to Blandford was removed in the 1960s—was mentioned in the song "Slow Train" by Flanders and Swann.
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