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Camping & Caravanning

 Eurocampings  -  ACSI Camping Guide

Car Rental Dorset

 Holiday Autos  -  
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

More Car Rental Companies? See the car rental page

Holiday Homes / Apartments

   -  leading UK provider of self-catered holidays
Availability search [ refining by specifying price, pet, pub nearby, open fire, swimming pool and more possible ], special offers and brochure request.

  -  Holiday Lodges and Holiday Parks Britain
A short break, or weekend, at one of our holiday parks gives you a real getaway, whatever the season. You'll find well-equipped and cosily heated bungalows, lodges, chalets, apartments and caravans in beautiful forest, countryside and coastal surroundings.

See for more the page Holiday Homes

Hostels / Youth Hostel

 
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability.

 Youth Hostels England

Hotels in Dorset

 Hotels in Dorset [ Booking ]  -  Hotel Guide Dorset 
Hotels in Bournemouth, Poole, Weymouth, Charminster, Christchurch, Dorchester, Sherborne, Blandford Forum, Winkton, Swanage, Saint Leonards, Horton, and more ...

 

Travel Agents / Tour Operators


Superbreak offer leisure hotel breaks and features 2-5 star hotels, with the majority in the 3-4 star+ rating.

  -  Holiday cottages in Dorset

 
Widest choice of self-catering holidays / short breaks throughout Britain, Ireland and Europe
A self-catering holiday in one of Hoseasons' holiday lodges and parks brings a new meaning to the word freedom. From the moment you arrive you can revel in the limitless possibilities offered at every resort centre.
And with late availability and last minute booking facilities, you'll soon be experiencing the holiday of your dreams. Enjoy a weekend or short break in beautiful countryside, at some of Europe's finest beaches or forest surroundings.

  -  Create your perfect trip  -  Flight, Hotel and Car



Travel Guides Dorset / Related books

Travel Guides South England 

Southern Counties From the Air (From The Air S.)  -  Denny Rowland
Leading aerial photographer Denny Rowland takes readers on a breathtaking tour above southern England, showing the many important historic and local landmarks which make this beautiful region a favourite with both locals and visitors. The book includes chapters on Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Dorset.
Hardcover 128 pages (May 1, 2005); Publisher: Myriad Books; Language: English; ISBN: 1904736890

Transport / How do I travel to Dorset

 Bournemouth Airport 
 London Airports [ London Gatwick, London Heathrow Airport, London Stansted Airport ] 
 London City Airport

  Opodo  -  
Flight tickets Dorset, Flight tickets Bournemouth.

 
Book cheap flights to Southern England at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online

  Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights  -  Flights to South England

 
thetrainline is the fully impartial rail ticketing website owned by the Virgin Group, Virgin Rail Group and National Express Group, providing the cheaper way to buy train tickets online. thetrainline provides fast, easy and secure access to timetables, tickets and fares for all National Rail journeys across the UK.

 - Coach Line to Southern England
You name it, they go there. National Express carries over 16 million passengers a year to 1000 different places in the UK, and thousands of others to destinations across Europe and Ireland. They run more services to and from UK airports than anyone else, and they even lay on special services to festivals like Glastonbury!

 Maps International  -   
Mapsinternational.co.uk is one of the largest map shops online.
 Multimap.com 
Street-level maps, road maps; door-to-door travel directions; aerial photographs; and local information.


Links 

 Travel Insurance  -  online travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 Visit Southern England  -  Southern and South East England Tourist Board
This website covers the counties of Kent, Surrey, and East and West Sussex.

 Brownsea Island  -  with red squirrels
 Dorset Coast
The whole Dorset coast is called a 'World Heritage Coastline'.
 Pilsdon Pen  -  Dorset's highest hill and Iron Age fort [ lovely views ]

 Abbotsbury  -  with its famous swannery and lagoon
 Beaminster  -  very attractive tiny town
 Burton Bradstock
Very pretty village (two pubs, PO/village shop, fine early medieval church), ½ mile from the sand/shingle 14 mile long Chesil Beach.
 Broadwindsor  -  Conservation village with good pub, PO, shop and handsome church
Excellent base for walking the beautiful West Dorset countryside.
 Charmouth  -  sand, pebble and fossil beaches
 Chedington  - one of South Dorset's prettiest villages, and only a mile from the sea
 Christchurch  -  Saxon port (King Alfred)
Now a picturesque resort town overlooking its big natural harbour.
 Corscombe  -  pretty by-road village
With ancient church and Dorset's pub of the year, in hilly wooded farmland close to the edge of the Downs.  Melbury Bubb  -  farm hamlet with fascinating church, beautifully sited below a wooded hill
This is West Dorset at its best, rolling countryside, unhurried, soft and gentle. Footpaths all round, lovely walking, huge views. 
 Coundle Marsh 
 Lyme Regis [ harbour ]  -  sand, pebble and fossil beaches
 Milborne St Andrew  -  small village
In a valley below the great chalk downland arc of the Dorset hills midway between Dorchester (county capital) and Blandford Forum (handsome Georgian market town) 
 Monkton Wyld  -  hamlet with church in oak-wooded hills
 Poole  -  huge natural harbour full of boats
 Sandbanks  -  sandy beach-lined peninsula
At the mouth of Poole's enormous and magnificent natural harbour, thronged with yachts, used by bigger ships also, including ferries to France.
 Shaftesbury
Interesting, attractive, small Saxon hilltop town that grew around its 9th cent. abbey
 Shillingstone  -  village
 Stour Provost  -  little Dorset village
Old stone houses peaceful in lanes between the rich farming vales of Stour and Blackmore: 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' country. Tremendous views from the wooded top of Duncliffe Hill. Good walking, many footpaths.
 West Bay
 Weymouth  -  with handsome seafront and sandy beach
Where King George III made bathing machines popular
 Whitchurch Canonicorum  -  small hillside village
In the lovely Marshwood Vale with its River Char

Cuisine

The staple foods of England are meat, fish, potatoes, flour, butter and eggs. Many of the English dishes are based on these foods.

Bacon Roly-Poly, Bangers and Mash, Black Pudding, Bubble & Squeak, Cornish Pasties, Cottage Pie, Fish & Chips, Gingerbread, Hot Cross Buns, Hot Pot, Kedgeree new, Ploughman's Lunch, Roast Beef, Roast Chicken, Roast lamb, Shepherd's Pie, Sponge Cake, Toad-in-the-Hole, Tom Collins, Trifle, Yorkshire Pudding

 Traditional foods in England
The Good Food Guide 2005  -  by Andrew Turvil (Editor)
The Good Food Guide continues to be the most reliable single source for the best of eating out in the UK. Its objectivity and independence have been well established for over 50 years, and its commitment to providing informative, well-written, fully researched reviews of around 1,300 of the best restaurants in the land remains undiminished. As for each new edition, the range it covers is wide, whether it is a Chinese restaurant in Liverpool, fish restaurant in Edinburgh, country-house hotel dining room in Wales, or latest opening by a high-profile chef in London. There are over 350 entries in London alone -- more than in many just-London' restaurant guides.
Paperback 784 pages (October 1, 2004)
English Food by Jane Grigson, Gillian Zeiner (Illustrator), Sophie Grigson
Paperback 400 pages; Penguin Books Ltd; ISBN: 0140273247
Favourite Pudding Recipes: Traditional Ways to a Man's Heart  -  Birkett Foster
Paperback 48 pages; Publisher: J Salmon; ISBN: 1898435685

History of Dorset

 

 English Heritage
 National Trust

Music, Art & Culture

 English folk and traditional music
Guide to Internet resources relating to English folk music
 Traditional music & Folk related links  -  by area

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