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If you get the weather it's a beautiful county! Plenty of boats at Weymouth for angling, Lyme Regis has some nice fossil hunting, inland there are some lovely little villages and towns, great walks, some good gun shops too! the wife loves Sidmouth which has some nice hotels on the seafront, lots to do and places to go in Dorset......it depends what floats your boat.........but, like anywhere in the UK you need the weather!

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Lulworth Cove, Durdle Dor, Portland Bill, Milton Abbas, Abbotsbury, West Bay(Harbour Lights), Cerne Abbas(Giant), Chesil Beach, Eggerdon Hill(ancient hill fort), Weymouth beach for safe kids' bathing, but you will need fine weather for all these. Sandbanks, to see some of the most expensive houses in the World, then take the chain ferry across the mouth of Poole Harbour toward Swanage and the Isle-of-Purbeck to find Corfe Castle. Bovington Tank Museum if it rains, and nearby Monkey World. Yeovilton Fleet Air Arm Museum, to have a look inside one of the Concords, with Haynes motor museum not far away. Glastonbury Tor(Somerset), where King Arthur and Queen Guinevere are thought to be buried, and see the Glastonbury Thorn............

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It all depends on what you are looking for, Hotel, B&B, Self Catering, Caravan or Tent, do you like small quiet places or somewhere with plenty of night life, West Bay is nice but can get a bit busy in July.

If you can find somewhere to stop in Lyme Regis it's really nice, it's our favourite place with plenty of thing to see and do, they have extended the east harbour wall you can fish from there at high tide or the Cobb harbour, if you head east from Lyme Regis there are some nice places and good fishing between Seatown all the way to West Bexington, keep away from Weymouth during July and August it gets packed if the weathers nice.

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Great choice, usually visit two or three times a year, fish Weymouth harbour / wall at any tide. Chesil beach, abbotsbury, Weymouth beach, west bay then into Bridgnorth, Lyme Regis and also charm outs beach for fossil hunting,loads of places to go, durdle door, Dorchester has a nice market and axminsters worth a visit river cottage canteens there. In fact you can also hop on the condor ferry at Weymouth and pop over to jersey for the day as well

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Like all these nice places they get a bit too overcrowded in the season

 

b]Enjoy it while you can....in a matter of weeks holiday season be here and everything doubles in price - nowhere to park so you visit the various attractions where you soon learn that piracy is indeed still very much alive. [/b]

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And, ????

 

 

A dam site further from North Yorkshire.........

 

Yes just checked 370 miles.

 

 

No need to apologise at all.

I'm not sure what I'm apologising for.

 

Someone looking for suggestions of what to do in Dorset and has the Eden Project suggested. I highlight this is actually 150 miles away (which from Dorset is about 3.5 hour drive).

 

I grew up in Bournemouth and we wouldn't have done the Eden Project as a day trip.

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