Though comparatively little Stalbridge is quite independent, sustaining its have little Supermarket, Newsagent, Electronics Store and numerous more services, reflecting its catchment area of surrounding farms and hamlets. A village is besides residence to a local loose newspaper, the Blackmore Vale Magazine.

History
There was the class action settlement touching Stalbridge around Roman times. the town has a 15th century church with a 19th century tower, dedicated to Saint Mary. A town has got market rights since a period of King George I, though it has not held the regular market for numerous years. In the town centre stands the 10-metre-tall market cross, said to be a finest in the united states.

Stalbridge was residence to man of science Robert Boyle (see following), & writer Douglas Adams. Adams wrote very much of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the town, and chipped his tooth while singing in the church choir. A town too boasts that these are front yard to the oldest dwelling male twins in the world.

Creative person Sir James Thornhill lived just south of the town, inside Thornhill Park, which he stock 1725. Within 1727 he erected an obelisk in the park to honor the accession of King George II.

Stalbridge Manor

Inside 1618 Mervyn, Lord Audley, Second Earl of Castlehaven, who experienced inherited Stalbridge Park from either his father, decided to build the Manor house (Mansion) on his Stalbridge estate. He enclosed an front yard utilized when commons to the northwest of the church, moving tennant farmers retired, & built the Jacobean style Mansion, the fifth big home within Dorset.

Inside 1631 Audley's eldest boy James brought a outbreak against Audley for "unnatural practices", and he was later on executed.

James sold a home to Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. Fallowing his father's, dying a man of science Robert Boyle became Lord of the Manor, and a manor was his home between 1644 and 1655. It was on text that he conducted numbers of of his experiments.

At a select few point in a period of the home's history, a Two metre high stone wall was built about the boundary of Stalbridge Park. There's occasionally argument after to when & how come a wall was built. It can use been commissioned by Audley (because he may - status symbol?), when act for French Prisoners of the Napoleonic Wars, or when function for local laborer around days of high unemployment.

Around 1823, a home was inside unfortunate repair & a todays creator, the Marquess of Anglesey, experienced it demolished, & by 1827 all that remained was the raised vicinity it got stood in. A stone was sold off & lot of these are within have elsewhere in a town, including the big domestic home which nowadays fill in the park.

There are numbers of popular local myths & ghost stories just about a death of the home, mostly involving a fire destroying the home.

Stalbridge Park features within Thomas Hardy's Wessex as "Stapleford Park".