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

2 Abbotsbury Sub-Tropical Gardens Beautiful gardens and Landscaped valley, cafe.
3 Athelhampton House - Stately home; ornamental gardens, cafe
5 Bovington Tank Museum History of Tanks
6 Cerne Abbas Giant - 2nd Century 180 ft fertility symbol carved in a hillside
7 Chesil Beach - 29 km shingle beach stretching from Portland to Abbotsbury

8 Cineword - multiplex cinema in Weymouth
9 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
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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 |




