Seventy miles of fine coast line gently
rolling hills and secluded valleys combine to make Dorset one of the
most pleasant of English countries almost unchanged since its beauties
were so well described by the great novelist Thomas Hardy, who was a
native of the county. There are also many traces of a much older Dorset such as prehistoric
barrows the fascinating hilltop camp called Maiden Castle or the ruined
Corfe Castle which dates from Norman times. The most impressive examples are the stratified cliffs of Stair Hole at
Lulworth Cove while a little way along the cliffs is a forest of
fossilized tree stumps. One mile to the famous stands the famous Durdle
Door, a headland from which an arch has been cut in the rock by the
action of the sea. |