A wooded island in Poole Harbour, and one of the few places in southern England where red squirrels still live. It has heathland, lagoons full of wading birds, and a castle, and is where Robert Baden-Powell held the first Scout camp in 1907.
Reach the island by ferry from Poole Quay or Sandbanks. Autumn is the best time to see the squirrels as they gather food.
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 grand country house in the style of an Italian palazzo, built for the Bankes family after they lost Corfe Castle in the Civil War.
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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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