The highest cliff on the south coast of England, named for the band of golden sandstone at its top, part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. The climb is steep but short, and the summit has views along the coast from Portland to Devon.
Start from Seatown with its beach and pub, or from the National Trust car park at Langdon Hill for an easier route. Look for fossils on the beaches below at low tide.
A glittering Elizabethan mansion of golden Ham Hill stone, built in the 1590s with great walls of glass.
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, …
One of the world's most famous landscape gardens, laid out in the 18th century around a lake by the banker Henry Hoare.
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 grand country house in the style of an Italian palazzo, built for the Bankes family after they lost Corfe Castle in the Civil War.
A wooded island in Poole Harbour, and one of the few places in southern England where red squirrels still live.
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