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Dorset Top 10 Holiday Recommendations, Destinations
These are our top 10 recommended Places To Visit in Dorset. To discover Dorset yourself, use the tabs above.
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Top 10 Places To Visit
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Exceptional seaside town and tourist resort on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. Famous for its harbour wall, The Cobb. Great fossil hunting!
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One of the venues for the London 2012 Olympics. Bustling harbour next to a vast arc of blond sand with views across the Dorset coast.
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County town of Dorset. Great local museums and historical buildings. Perfect base from which to explore the Jurassic Coast and the Dorset AONB.
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One of the most beautiful towns in Dorset centred on Sherborne Abbey Church. Close by are Sherborne Old and New Castles.
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Exquisite, small town a short drive north of the Jurassic Coast.
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Home to probably the most famous hill in the UK. Alfred the Great founded an Abbey here from which there are extraordinary views of Dorset and Wiltshire.
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Thriving harbour on the Dorset Jurassic Coast. There are few finer places to be on the UK coast when the sun sets and the cliffs glow orange.
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Covering about 40% of the county, the AONB boasts dramatic coastline and rolling downland. One of the finest AONBs in the UK.
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Very popular, very pretty village behind Chesil Beach. Home to a unique swannery and some seriously fine views down to the coast.
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Fine beaches backing onto some of the most expensive real estate in the UK. One of the main departure points for the Normandy coastline during D-Day.
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