A grand country house in the style of an Italian palazzo, built for the Bankes family after they lost Corfe Castle in the Civil War. William John Bankes filled it with paintings by Rubens, Titian and Velázquez, and with ancient Egyptian treasures; an obelisk he brought from Philae stands on the lawn.
The parkland, Japanese garden and woodland walks are good for a long afternoon, and the snowdrops in late winter are a highlight.
A wooded island in Poole Harbour, and one of the few places in southern England where red squirrels still live.
Seven miles of golden sand, with clean water and Blue Flag beaches, running from Sandbanks to Hengistbury Head.
The dramatic ruin of a royal castle on a steep hill in a gap in the Purbeck Hills, above a village of grey stone cottages.
A wild headland at the eastern end of Bournemouth's beaches, with heathland, woods and a sandy spit, and views over Christchurch Harbour, the Isle of…
England's only natural World Heritage Site, a 150 km stretch of coast in Dorset and Devon whose cliffs show 185 million years of geological history, …
A Victorian fort perched on the cliffs at the western tip of the Isle of Wight, with views straight down to the Needles, three chalk stacks rising fr…
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