Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
2021-09-01Home to an art gallery and museum, the Russell-Cotes Museum is dramatically located perched on Bournemouth's East Cliff. Next door to the Royal Bath Hotel, there are beautiful views throughout the bay. The museum building is a Grade II listed Victorian villa dating again to 1901. Originally constructed for Sir Merton and Lady Russell-Cotes as a home for the travel and art fanatics, the house was called East Cliff Hall. Filled with wonderful objects from their travels and stunning art collection,
Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre
2021-08-30Hengistbury Head is a towering headland of golden sandstone, enclosing the herbal harbour wherein the estuaries of the Stour and Avon rivers converge. When you return out onto the sand, the primary course lower back toward the Visitor Centre and Automobile Park is on your left. But before heading returned it’s a pleasant idea to stroll the entire manner along each edges of the sandbank first. At the threshold of the small woodland beforehand,
Swanage Railway
2021-08-28An idyllic seaside town on Dorset’s Isle of Purbeck, Swanage makes for the ideal day trip. With its iconic steam railway, fabulous seashore in a sweeping bay and plenty of nearby nature, there’s a lot to preserve traffic busy. It’s smooth to see why that is one of the put up popular towns in Dorset. The region surrounding Swanage is truly stunning, and there’s a load to peer and do within the metropolis itself.
National Trust - Kingston Lacy
2021-08-25Kingston Lacy is a stunning 17th century Italian inspired us of a mansion set in attractive formal gardens and massive parkland. Step in the residence of the powerful and flamboyant Bankes circle of relatives who owned full-size swathes of Dorset for over four hundred years. From combating the forces of Oliver Cromwell, to accumulating one of the international’s biggest collections of historical Egyptian artefacts, the Bankes have a fascinating past.
Weymouth Beach
2021-08-23This award-winning sandy beach is overlooked by means of a wonderful Georgian seafront, positioned at the coronary heart of the Jurassic Coast. Originally made popular by the common visits of King George III inside the overdue 1700’s, for him to experience the fitness benefits of bathing in its coastal waters, Weymouth soon have become a famous vacation spot for all and has remained one of the country’s pinnacle traditional seashore lodges.
Isle of Portland
2021-08-20The Isle of Portland is the Jurassic Coast’s most southerly point, and is joined to the mainland by using simply a skinny strip on the southern quit of the sweeping arc of Chesil Beach. Its isolated vicinity and exquisite surroundings make it a real explorer’s island, at the same time as the relatively mild climate permits an extensive variety of plants and fauna to thrive. The great way to discover this captivating island is on foot.
Brownsea Island
2021-08-18The Idle day’s adventure, this island wildlife sanctuary is easy to get to however appears like any other world from the moment you step ashore. The island sits in the middle of Poole Harbour, with dramatic perspectives to the Purbeck Hills. Thriving herbal habitats, together with forest, heathland and a lagoon, have created havens for wildlife, inclusive of the red squirrel and a huge form of birds, inclusive of the sandwich tern.
Old Harry Rocks
2021-08-16Harry Rocks is an extraordinary cliff formation and one of the first-rate locations to go to on the Jurassic Coast. This is the very jap quit of the Jurassic Coast and the white chalk rocks gleam brightly inside the sun. Thousands of years ago, Old Harry Rocks and the Needles on the Isle of Wight have been linked via a line of chalk hills that eroded away. Whats left is a chain of surprising rock stacks and cliffs.
Monkey World - Ape Rescue Centre
2021-08-13Enjoy a fun-entertaining, charming time out for entire family at Monkey World – Ape Rescue Centre in Wareham. The 65-acre park is domestic to the stars of TV’s ‘Monkey Life’ and ‘Monkey Business’, and gives sanctuary for rescued and endangered primates from round the arena. Some are actually part of international breeding programmes for endangered species which include Europe’s professional orang-utan crèche!
Corfe Castle
2021-08-11If you are exited as to what the Castle might have appeared like earlier than it became destroyed for the duration of the Civil War, why now not go to Corfe Castle Model Village? Step in returned in time to look what it would have gave the impression of in 1646, play games in the gardens or revel in a cream tea within the courtyard café. Exhilarating institution and family activities can be determined at Brenscombe Outdoor Centre.