Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. The cove is one of the finest examples of such a landform in the world, and is a popular tourist location, with over 1 million visitors a year. Its popularity as a tourist attraction is also affected by its proximity to Durdle Door and other important Jurassic Coast sites. The cove has formed because there are bands of rock of alternating resistance running parallel to the shore. On the seaward side the clays and sands have been eroded away. |
Badbury Rings is an Iron Age hill fort, dating from 800 BCE and in use until the Roman occupation of 43 CE. The 330 ft (100 m) high, 7 hectare fort is encircled by three 40 ft (15 m) ramparts and four Bronze Age round barrows indicating an earlier occupation. The fort is situated at the cross of two Roman roads, between Dorchester, Old Sarum (Salisbury), Bath and Hamworthy (Poole). Dorset fell to the Saxons late in the Saxon invasion of England, being held up by Bokerley Dyke on the Roman Road from Old Sarum. |
Bovington Tank Museum is the foremost collection of armoured vehicles in the United Kingdom. With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the most wide-ranging collection of tanks and armoured vehicles in the world, and includes one of two working examples of a German Tiger I tank in the world and a British World War I Mark I - the world's oldest surviving combat tank. The collection is held at the Bovington Army camp in the county of Dorset in South West England, about 1 mile (2 km) north of the town of Wool and 12 miles (20 km) west of the major port of Poole. |
Situated on the edge of the town of Wimborne Minster, this 1/10th scale model depicts the town as it was in the 1950s. Originally built on a different site, the model town became run-down in the 1980s and was restored on an acre of Green Belt land close by. The concrete model features 120 buildings including 108 shop fronts and a 15ft (5m) high Minster. The shop windows accurately show the goods on sale in the post war years. Additional attractions have been added in recent years, including a 1/24th scale model of Buckingham Palace and a model railway based on "Thomas the Tank Engine". |