With temperatures set to soar to 18c in Dorset coming days, here are even more places you can visit before the crowds arrive for the summer season ...

With temperatures set to soar to 18c in Dorset coming days, here are even more places you can visit before the crowds arrive ...

Many across the county remain in use for book swops, seed swops, public noticeboards and even to house heart machines, often ‘adopted’ by parish councils or other community groups for a token payment.

Archaeologists have re-dated the Flagstones monument in Dorset back to 3200 BC - more than two centuries earlier than previously thought. According to new research from the University of Exeter ...

Archaeological research by the University of Exeter and Historic England has shed new light on the origins of the prehistoric Flagstones monument located near Dorchester, Dorset, during the ...

Beavers vanished from Britain because of hunting for their pelts, meat and glands The first ever wild beavers have been released in a Dorset nature reserve, more than 400 years after their ...

Brownsea Castle, located on an island off the coast of Dorset, was built in 1547 during the reign of Henry VIII. Since the 1960s it has been exclusively used by John Lewis and Waitrose employees ...

Brownsea Castle, a 500-year-old former fort in Dorset, is run as a subsidised perk for John Lewis’s 70,000 partners. Now the retailer is preparing to lower the drawbridge to the general public ...

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