A home from home by the sea

Abbotsbury Village - Arts and crafts shops; Tithe Barn; St Catherine's Chapel, Abbotsbury Swannery

Abbotsbury Sub-Tropical Gardens Beautiful gardens and Landscaped valley, cafe.

Athelhampton House - Stately home; ornamental gardens, cafe

Bennett's Water Gardens

Bovington Tank Museum  History of Tanks

Cerne Abbas Giant - 2nd Century 180 ft fertility symbol carved in a hillside

Chesil Beach - 29 km shingle beach stretching from Portland to Abbotsbury


Cineword - multiplex cinema in Weymouth

Clouds Hill - National Trust property once belonging to Lawrence of Arabia

10  Deep Sea Adventure - marine attraction and children's play centre

11  Dorchester - county town that formed the basis for Casterbridge in the Hardy novel

12  Durdle Door - famous rock arch near Lulworth


13  Equitation Centre - Horse riding facilities (0705 355 8194)

14  Fossil Forest - fossilised remains of where a Jurassic coniferous forest once stood

15  Golf Courses - visitors welcome (with handicap cert):  Came Down Golf Course (01305 813494); Wolfedale Golf Course (01305 260186)

16  Golden Cap - highest point on the Jurassic coast at 191 metres!

17  Hardy's Cottage - where he wrote Under the Greenwood Tree and Far From the Madding Crowd


18  Henley Hillbillies - Quad-biking, hovercraft, archery, mini racing, clay shooting (01300 345293) at Buckland Newton

19  Jersey - Condor Catamarans travel daily in the summer months (0870 2435140)

20  Kingston Maurward - Gardens and animal farm


21  Lyme Regis - shops & cafes; fossils; the Cobb was used in the film "The French Lieutenant's Woman"

22  Maiden Castle - largest iron age hill fort in Europe

23  Monkey World - ape rescue centre, featured on TV's Monkey Business

24  Nothe Fort - Victorian coastal defence fort

25  Portland Bill - lighthouse; cafe


26  Portland Museum - Quaint thatched cottage, huge local fossils, history of quarrying, shipwrecks and smuggling etc.

27  Portland Castle - artillery fort built for Henry VIII in 1539-40

28  Poundbury - Dorchester's expansion project sponsored by Prince Charles

29  Radipole Lake - RSPB nature reserve

30  Sea Life Centre - sea life park and animal sanctuary

31  Tolpuddle Martyrs Museum showing history and background to Tollpuddle martyrs.

32  The Keep - military museum

33  Tutankhamun Museum

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35  Upwey Wishing Well - natural spring; cafe; gardens

36  Wolfeton House - mediaeval and Elizabethan Grade 1 listed house

37  Zorbing South - go zorbing (rolling around in a giant plastic bubble!) in Bockhampton (0709 212 1270)

 



St Catherine's Chapel, Abbotsbury

 



Beach near Durdle Door,

Little Door in the distance

 




Chesil Beach and The Fleet

 


Chesil Cove in winter

 


Durdle Door

 


Fishing from Chesil Beach near Abbotsbury

 


Portland Bill Lighthouse

 


View from The Verne,

East side of Portland

 


Portland Harbour