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Welcome to Dorset Photos.
Below you will find the most recent additions to this site. All of our images are available in larger versions including the main wallpaper sizes of 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768. This site is updated often so please check back soon.
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Title: Harbour View
Place: Lyme Regis
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About: The pretty tranquil scene of Lyme Regis harbour today is in stark contrast to its heyday as a thriving fishing and trading port. Like most of our coastal harbours the majority of the boats in the harb......
Photograph Added: 25th August 2010
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Title: Fossil Beach
Place: Eype
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About: On our photographic trip across Eype beach we also looked for fossils and on this occassion we were rewarded by the number of bellamites that we found.
Photograph Added: 25th August 2010
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Title: Sun Setting over Charmouth Beach
Place: Charmouth
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About: We spent a very enjoyable evening at Charmouth on our photographic trip. It is possible at this time of the night to park in the car park overlooking the beach so we could wait in the comfort of the c......
Photograph Added: 25th August 2010
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Title: Sunset Glow on the Beach and Cliffs
Place: Charmouth
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About: The reflective glow of the setting sun on the beach and cliffs at Charmouth turned them a lovely shade of red more reminiscent of the Devon rather than the Dorset coastline
Photograph Added: 25th August 2010
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Title: World Heritage Beach
Place: Burton Bradstock
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About: The people enjoying a day out on the beach might not have been aware that Burton Bradstock beach and cliffs are included in the new World Heritage Site which runs from Orcombe Point, near Exmouth in D......
Photograph Added: 25th August 2010
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Title: Protection Scheme
Place: Weymouth
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About: Newton's Cove Coast Protection Scheme was one of the 2004 finalist in the Prime Minister's better public buildings awards. The scheme was devised to protect residential property while at the same time......
Photograph Added: 25th August 2010
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About Dorset.
Dorset lies in the South West Region of England and at its extreme points it measures 50 miles (80 km) from east to west and 40 miles (64 km) north to south, and has an area of 1,024 square miles (2,653 square kilometres). Demographically Dorset is one of the less populated counties in the United Kingdom, with only approximately 390,000 inhabitants but it has stunning scenery, diverse attractions and picturesque villages for all to enjoy.
Famous for its Jurassic coastline, Dorset has now been given World Heritage status and visitors have a wealth of interesting things to do, including fossil hunting, going to the beaches, exploring the castles and visiting the places made famous by Thomas Hardy. Dorchester is easily recognised as Casterbridge whereas Budmouth was the name that Hardy used for the port of Weymouth and Melstock referred to in "Under the Greenwood Tree" is actually Lower Bockampton where Thomas Hardy went to school. The cottage where Hardy was born is to be found in Higher Bockhampton and in his books Hardy calls this place Egdon Health.
Please take care when fossil hunting as the cliffs are subject to rock falls and it is important to be aware of the tides to avoid getting cut off.
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