Self-catering holiday accommodation in Dorset

Dorset in the south of England, a county with scenic countryside and a wonderful wild coastline. Go inland for charming English villages with their wealth of historical monuments. 

The beaches and seaside towns of Dorset such as Lyme Regis and Weymouth are a great favourite with British holidaymakers.  Children love those  rock pools where they can search all day for crustaceans and dig up the beach.

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Dorset is where the Black death is presumed to have started, carried by rats on board a boat in Melcombe Regis. Dorset beaches are good places to look for fossils.  These can be found on the beaches when released from the cliffs by erosion.  Interesting pebbles with a hole through them, called Hag pebbles can be found on Chesil beach, where there is also a Chesil Beach Centre with interactive displays about the geology of the region.  

Evidence of prehistoric man can be seen on many hilltops in the form of burial mounds. Find the remains of the Iron Age, Normans and Romans. 

Holiday homes of all types abound in Dorset and on the south coast. Find that perfect country cottage for you and your family. Use the Cottage Search page to enter your own requirements of a self-catering holiday in Dorset:

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