Dorset Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
ceremonial county in South West England, UK
About Dorset
Dorset is mostly rural, with a few large towns and many small villages. The county has a variety of landscapes, from steep chalk hills and wide clay valleys full of small dairy farms to the 50 mileJurassic Coastworld heritage site, popular with tourists and important to science. Over half the county's population live in the Bournemouth-Poole-Christchurch conurbation located in the south-eastern corner of the county. Dorset has notable lesbian and gay activity in Bournemouth and Weymouth. Other towns have small but developing gay communities. Bournemouth has an annual Pride event.
Dorset Travel Guide Sections
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