Holiday Brochures and Tourist Information for Dorset
Bournemouth Holiday Brochure
Bournemouth has award-winning beaches, exquisite gardens, stylish shops, restaurants and attractions. Visit Bournemouth this year and celebrate a very British year with us. Bournemouth Air Festival 30th August – 2nd September 2012, by the sea and completely free.
Christchurch Dorset Holiday Brochure
Fascinating heritage, spectacular natural harbour and beautiful coastline. At the edge of the the New Forest and the World Heritage Jurassic Coast. Quality accommodation, great food, internationally renowned Food & Wine Festival (May) plus an extensive range of attractions and events. Send for your free Christchurch Holiday Brochure for official Christchurch tourist information.
Dorset - Enjoy Rural Dorset Holiday Brochure
Explore picturesque countryside, historic sites and charming market towns. Enjoy panoramic views, scenic footpaths, delicious food, fascinating attractions and colourful events. With a friendly welcome and quality accommodation Rural Dorset is also perfect for touring the New Forest and Jurassic Coast. The Rural Dorset Brochure includes comprehensive tourist information and hundreds of Rural Dorset holidays.
Swanage and Purbeck Holiday Brochure
Discover England’s first natural World Heritage site, explore the famous Lulworth Cove, Durdle Door and unspoilt Dorset countryside. Relax in quality accommodation with plenty to do all year-round. The Swanage & Purbeck brochure contains comprehensive Swanage tourist information
Weymouth and Portland Holiday Brochure
The natural place to be to discover the beautiful World Heritage coast, indulge in a variety of leisure activities and spa treatments and sample traditional cuisine and unique events and attractions. The 2012 Weymouth and Portland Brochure includes comprehensive tourist information and hundreds of Weymouth and Portland holidays.
Dorset
The county of Dorset, which lies between Devon and Hampshire on England's south coast with Somerset and Wiltshire to the north, occupies an area of over 1000 square miles.
Dorset's 75-mile coastline is fascinatingly varied. One of the best ways of experiencing its many delights is to walk a section of the South West Coast Path. Heading westwards beyond the exceptionally clean, sandy beaches of Bournemouth you can make a start at the Isle of Purbeck next to Poole Harbour. Its not really an island at all, but a heathland, now designated a World Heritage Site. Past Corfe Castle one of the most romantic ruins in all of Britain - the path leads on to Kimmeridge Bay a marine nature reserve, favoured by divers and then to exquisite Lulworth Cove and the famous limestone arches of Durdle Door. Further west beyond Weymouth, is Chesil Beach, an eighteen-mile long ridge of shingle that stretches its bony finger out to Portland Bill, and is inhabited throughout the year by sea anglers. From here the South West Coastal Path eventually leads you to the crumbling cliffs of Lyme Bay and Lyme Regis in the far west of the county. The beach and famous undercliff at Lyme are so rich in fossils that it comes as little surprise to learn that this part of Dorset is now known as the Jurrassic Coast. From this point, if you follow the South West Coastal Path any further, you'll be in Devon.
There's more to Dorset than popular seaside resorts of Bournmouth, Weymouth and Lyme Regis. The heaths and rolling green hills where chalk and flint cottages nestle evoke the world of the author Thomas Hardy. Dorchester, the County seat, was Hardys Casterbridge, the place where Michael Henchards guilty secret that he once sold his wife and daughter to a sailor becomes his undoing. Many other picturesque Dorset towns and villages have unfeasibly quaint names such as Blandford Forum, Piddletrenthide, Toller Porcorum and Cerne Abbas, where the famous chalk giant flourishes his manhood.
Main market towns to visit:
Dorchester
Poole
Shaftesbury
Sherbourne
Seaside Resorts:
Bournemouth
Lyme Regis
Weymouth