Dorset AONB covers 44% of the WestcountryCounty of Dorset, and includes the Dorset Downs, Blackmore Vale, West Dorset and Lyme Regis, Chesil Beach and the Fleet SSSI, the Isle of Purbeck, Poole Harbour and it's islands, and north Dorset up to Sturminster Newton. The Area also contains mainland Britain's only natural World Heritage Site, the Jurassic Coast, from Exmouth, through West Dorset, Weymouth and the Isle of Portland, the Isle of Purbeck coast and terminates at Old Harry Rocks, Swanage. Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is a United Kingdom. ... The term Westcountry could to refer one of two things: The South West England ITV franchise holder: Westcountry Television. ... Originally, a county was the land under the jurisdiction of a count (in Great Britain, an earl, though the original earldoms covered larger areas) by reason of that office. ... The Dorset Downs shown within Dorset The Dorset Downs are an area of Chalk downland in the centre of the county Dorset in south west England. ... Sturminster Newton watermill. ... Categories: Stub | Towns in Dorset | English seaside resorts ... Chesil Beach from Fortuneswell Chesil Beach (sometimes called Chesil Bank) is a 18 mile (29km) long, 200 metre wide and 18 metre high shingle tombolo in Dorset, southern England. ... Chesil Beach from Fortuneswell Chesil Beach (sometimes called Chesil Bank) is a 18 mile (29km) long, 200 metre wide and 18 metre high shingle tombolo in Dorset, southern England. ... Poole Harbour is in Dorset, south England. ... Dorset (pronounced Dorsit, sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the southwest of England, on the English Channel coast. ... The water mill on the River Stour, seen from the town bridge. ... Elabana Falls is in Lamington National Park, part of the Central Eastern Rainforest Reserves World Heritage site in Queensland, Australia. ... Lulworth Cove The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site in south England. ... There are several places named Exmouth: Exmouth in Western Australia, Australia Exmouth in Devon, England This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... West Dorset is a local government district in Dorset, England. ... Location within the British Isles Weymouth is a town in Dorset, England, situated on a sheltered bay -Weymouth Bay- at the mouth of the River Wey on the English Channel coast. ... Chesil Beach from the hill above Fortuneswell, Portland Harbour is on the right. ... The Isle of Purbeck, not a true island but a peninsula, is in the county of Dorset, England. ... Old Harry Rocks Old Harry Rocks peak A stack at Old Harry rocks Old Harry Rocks at Handfast Point are a small but characteristic set of coastal landforms off Ballard Down at the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast world heritage site near Swanage in Dorset, England. ... Location within the British Isles. ...
Calendars and indexes to the Marriage Licences are in the library of the Devon and Cornwall Record Society, which is located in the Westcountry Studies Library.
The Survey of West Country Manors 1525: Devon, Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire is available on microfiche from Harry Galloway Publishers and Booksellers, The Cottage, Manor Terrace, Paignton, Devon TQ3 3RQ.
Index to Devon Entries in Phillimore's Hatchments in Britain, Vol 7: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Somerset, eds.
It contains significant areas of international and national designations for nature conservation and landscape, and has large proportions of the countrys undeveloped coast.
The region has two National Parks, Exmoor and Dartmoor, attracting millions of visitors each year, and a third of its area is classified as part of an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
These are Stonehenge/Avebury, the city of Bath, and the Jurassic Coast of Devon and Dorset that has the distinction of being the first natural landscape on the UK mainland to be awarded World Heritage Site status
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