Dorothy Clutterbuck, was a wealthy Englishwoman who lived in Highcliffe, Dorset. She was named by Gerald Gardner as a leading member of the New Forest coven, a group of pagan Witches into which Gardne
Chewton Mill House, the house in Highcliffe owned by Dorothy and reputedly the site of Gardner's initiation.
Philip Heselton is a retired British conservation officer, a Wiccan initiate, and a writer on the subjects of Wicca, Paganism, and Earth mysteries. He is best known for two books, Wiccan Roots: Gerald
Dorothy Clutterbuck
…were interpreted by his pupil Doreen Valiente as implying that Clutterbuck had personally initiated him into the coven, but later authors such as Philip Heselton and Eleanor Bone claim that his initiator was in fact Edith Woodford-Grimes. Some writers, such as historian Jeffrey Burton Russell, suggest that "Old…