Community volunteers have built a new adventure playground in Marnhull in Dorset. This is part of a film called Village Ventures featuring projects that are carried out to improve the lives of people in rural communities.

Marnhull is an old village which was used in the 1998 television dramatisation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles because of its many thatched cottages. In his novels, Hardy called the village Marlott and the Crown Inn Pub dating to Tudor times, The Pure Drop. Catherine Parr, Henry VIII's last wife was given nearby Nash Court in 1544 sealing the village's Tudor credentials.