Thanks for the tips Simon, I'm actually just down the road from River Cottage.
As an aside when I moved down to West Dorset I registered on Landshare for a plot to grow veg on and had one or two offers for land which was too far away, then I put up a couple of notices on inboards in town and had no fewer than 9 responses and picked the best plot for my veg growing project
Still looking for somewhere to live if anyone has any more ideas or knows anyone with a run down smallholding they want looking after