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Welcome to the Resort-Guide.co.uk Dorset pages. By following the links on this page you will find the very best places to stay in Dorset with hotels, guest houses, bed and breakfast, self catering, caravan, camping and holiday parks featured in the towns of Bournemouth, Christchurch, Dorchester, Lyme Regis, Poole, Portland, Swanage, Weymouth and Wimborne and the areas of North Dorset, Purbeck and West Dorset. Just click on the links to any of the towns featured on this page to find out more about them and view our listings of accommodation, attractions, activities, pubs and restaurants within that town or area. Dorset has so much to offer the discerning holidaymaker from the exciting larger resorts of Weymouth, Poole and Bournemouth to smaller relaxing picturesque such as Lyme Regis and Swanage. Whilst inland in the Dorset countryside you'll find charming country towns, Dorchester, Wimborne, Beaminster, Shaftesbury and Sherbourne to name but a few. Much of the Dorset coastline has recently received UNESCO World Heritage Coast status and is sometimes called The Jurassic Coast due to its rich Jurassic outcrops and fossil beds.

For those with a love of Hardy's works, rural Dorset will always be regarded as the focal point of his writings.Hardy was born and bred in the county and many of his great works were written here, based on the towns and villages that he knew and loved, re-christened with such poignant names as 'Casterbridge' and 'Budmouth'.

A visit to Dorset takes you to many of these towns and villages where you will find settings little changed from the days of Hardy's great novels. Inland, much of the county remains rural with market towns and picture-postcard villages never far away from many interesting country houses, gardens and visitor attractions.

The old Roman county town of Dorchester, with its fascinating county museum, Roman amphitheatre and weekly market, is just one of the many splendid country towns that Dorset has to offer. Along with other picturesque country towns like Shaftesbury and Blandford in North Dorset, Sherbourne and Beaminster in West Dorset, Wareham and the historic village of Corfe Castle in Purbeck and Wimborne to the east they make excellent days out if your taking a holiday on the coast or are in themselves superb places to stay if your idea of a perfect holiday is to relax in rural surroundings or discover the local countryside on foot, bicycle or horseback.

Dorset's coastline presents a fine selection of resorts, both large and small. All offer many interesting places to visit which include museums, aquariums and heritage centres.Traditional resorts such as Weymouth, Lyme Regis, Swanage, Bournemouth and Poole have changed dramatically over the past few years and now offer all those extras you'll now expect on seaside holiday whilst still retaining the seaside charm of years gone by. Whilst Christchurch to the far east of the Dorset coast offers the combined benefits of a seaside town on the edge of the rural beauty of the New Forest in the neighboring county of Hampshire.

The Dorset coastline is quite simply stunning, from Poole Harbour in the east, the largest natural harbour in Europe, through to the magnificent cliffs and picturesque bays of the Isle of Purbeck and the rich geological coastline stretching from Portland to Lyme Regis where in many parts fossils from the Jurassic era abound.

The outstanding stretch of coast from Swanage to Lyme Regis has recently been awarded World Heritage Coast status ranking it amongst such places as the Grand Canyon and Great Barrier Reef in environmental importance.

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