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 from the sea with a lighthouse at the end. A tunnel leads to a searchlight position looking out over them.
The New Battery higher up was used to test rockets for Britain's space programme in the 1950s and 60s. Walk from Alum Bay along the cliff top, or take the open-top bus in summer.
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…
Seven miles of golden sand, with clean water and Blue Flag beaches, running from Sandbanks to Hengistbury Head.
A wooded island in Poole Harbour, and one of the few places in southern England where red squirrels still live.
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 medieval priory turned into a house beside the River Test, best known for its walled garden of old-fashioned roses, one of the finest collections i…
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