Introducing Dorset
For many people the bustling market towns, babbling brooks and thatch-roofed cottages of rural Dorset are inextricably bound up with one name – Thomas Hardy, the 19th-century novelist, who lived most of his life in Dorset and used it as the setting for some of his most famous tales. But the county is more than just a literary landmark, it’s a historical one too – Iron Age remains, tumbledown abbeys and medieval towns are dotted all over the Dorset landscape, and the glorious stretch of crumbling coastline along the county’s southern edge – the Jurassic Coast – is where many of Britain’s most important fossils have been discovered. The centre for budding ammonite-hunters is Lyme Regis, but for a taste of the classic British seaside, head west to the popular coastal resorts of Weymouth and Bournemouth, where day-trippers have been strolling along the promenades since the days when crinoline and whalebone corsets were in vogue.
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Last updated: Feb 17, 2009
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RE: Beaches and islands
by ribblerat 15 August 2011
Weymouth in Dorset in the UK is pretty cool and takes some beating .. .
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RE: USA 5 week itinerary - final check
by dajackal 22 July 2011
Thanks everyone for your valuable feedback. My West Coast & South West itinerary has been finalised. Looking to finalise the East Coast…
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RE: UK Roadtrip
by battybilly 13 July 2011
In 10 days? Mmmm. I'm sure you could do it, but it's going to be a lot of holding the camera out the window en-route and not stopping.…
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