The area of Dorset where Hollis Mead Organic Dairy is based has a long history of occupation going back to the Iron Age in 750BC. It’s chalk and limestone ridges and clay rich valleys have long provided a fertile and abundant natural ecosystem where agriculture has thrived since the Saxon occupation of Britain. The Saxon settlement of ‘Coriscombe’ was recorded in the Doomsday Book and when Henry VIII dissolved the monasteries in 1536, a diverse landscape of independent family farms emerged that has shaped our region of Dorset ever since.