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If you haven't spent time in Dorset then you have surely missed out on one of the nicest and most beautiful of our English counties, and I would move there in a flash if we could afford a half decent place there.

Dorset, with it's breathtaking scenery is one of the maritime counties of southern England, fronting the English Channel with a its coastline extending roughly 140 kilometers from Lyme Regis in the west to Christchurch in the east, and which offers a wonderful selection of the finest sandy beaches to be found in the British Isles. Most of the coastline is part of the Jurassic Coast, England's only UNESCO natural World Heritage Site.

Poole harbour is one of the main gateways to Europe and the Channel Islands, and is supposed to be the second largest natural harbour in the world after Sydney in Australia. Weymouth is another port in Dorset which also serves similar routes but which is considerably smaller. One interesting fact about Poole and/or Weymouth is that you can hop onto a Condor ferry very cheaply in the morning and get off in either Guernsey or Jersey, whichever one is one the route for that day, and return late at night - between midnight and 1am. Duty frees are still available on that route so you can take advantage of the facility both ways, and depending on what you buy it is possible to offset the whole of your fare against your duty free savings.

Dorset boasts masses of small towns and villages, many of which have superb thatched roofs of the olde worlde variety. There is no lack of countryside where you will find caravan, mobile home and camping sites which cater for anything from mini breaks to full blown camping holidays for however long you wish to stay.

As well as being a superb camping venue the county of Dorset hosts the New Forest, and there can be few other places in England where the ancient landscape has remained so unchanged for so long. William The Conqueror named the area his ‘new hunting forest’ in 1079 and set out to protect and manage the woodlands (for his own uses). We should all be grateful that this area is pretty much the same as it was nearly 1,000 years ago, and with luck and good management it should carry on being host to wildlife as well as giving pleasure to visitors for a long, long time to come.