Dorset

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Dorset is a county on the south coast of England, in the West Country.

	dorset Travel Guide : 1 Cities 2 Understand 3 Get in 3.1 By plane 3.2 By train 3.3 By car 3.4 By boat 4 Get around 4.1 By bus 5 See 6 Eat 7 Drink 8 Stay safe 9 Get out 10 External links

Cities

• Bournemouth
• Bridport
• Cerne Abbas
• Dorchester
• Lyme Regis
• Milton Abbas
• Poole
• Shaftesbury
• Sherborne
• Tolpuddle
• Wareham
• Weymouth
• Wimborne

Understand

Dorset is mostly rural, with a few large towns and many small villages. The county has a variety of landscapes, from steep chalk hills and wide clay valleys full of small dairy farms to the 50 mile Jurassic Coast world heritage site, popular with tourists and important to science.

Get in

By plane

The only airport in Dorset is Bournemouth International Airport, which does flights to many cities in Europe. Bristol airport, 50 miles to the north, has a wider selection, including New York. London is just over 100 miles east.

By train

Dorchester, Poole, Bournemouth, Weymouth and on a separate line Sherbourne and Gillingham are connected directly to London, approximately 2 hours. Dorchester, Weymouth and Sherbourne are connected to Bristol and Bath, about 1 1/2 hours away.

By car

The A303 is the main route from London into the north of the county (and has Stonehenge half-way). The south of the county is connected to London by the M3 and M27, and to the Channel Tunnel by the M27 and A27. Both routes carry on into Devon and Cornwall. The A36 and A37 connect to Bath and Bristol.

By boat

There are ferries from Cherbourg, France, to Poole and Weymouth.

Get around

By bus

Much of Dorset is very rural, and though there are many bus routes, many do not have regular and often services, or may only run on market and pension days.

See

• Corfe Castle (http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/scripts/nthandbook.dll?ACTION=PROPERTY&PROPERTYID=295) - a National Trust site, an impressive ruined Norman castle
• The Dorset and East Devon Coast, or Jurassic Coast (http://www.swgfl.org.uk/jurassic/), a World Heritage site
• Poole Harbour - the second largest natural harbour in the world (second only to Sydney harbour)
• Brownsea Island (http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/places/brownsea/) near Poole - a National Trust site, famous for its large population of red squirrels, and as the birthplace of the Scout Movement
• The Great Dorset Steam Fair (http://www.steam-fair.co.uk/) near Blandford Forum - 600 acres of steam engines attended by over 200,000 visitors for a week in August/September each year. During the fair, the camping site becomes the largest community in the county!
• The Cerne Abbas (http://www.cerneabbas.org.uk/) Giant - a giant figure carved into the side of a hill by removing turf to expose white chalk
• The Isle of Portland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Portland) and Portland Bill
• Wimborne Minster (http://www.wimborneminster.org.uk/) - a big church in a small town
• Studland Beach (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studland) - a popular beach and beauty spot

Eat

Drink

Stay safe

Get out

Devon lies to the west, Somerset and Wiltshire to the north, and Hampshire is to the east.

External links

• Dorset County Council Tourism (http://www.dorsetcc.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=2201&articleaction=0)

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