Page 112 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - England's South Coast

110  ENGLAND ’ S SOUTH C O AST REGION B Y REGION
Thornbury
Caldicot
Exploring Dorset and Somerset
Chipping
The south of the region is home to the fine seaside resorts of Sodbury
Bournemouth, Swanage and Weymouth, as well as the picture- Avonmouth Castle
postcard town of Lyme Regis in the heart of the Jurassic Coast. Portishead Combe
Head inland to find pretty villages nestling in a rural landscape Kingswood Corsham
that inspired literary figures such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Clevedon Nailsea BRISTOL
Thomas Hardy. The north coastline backs onto the wild scenery of Keynsham Box
Exmoor National Park, where ponies roam free. Wildlife can also
be found in the wetlands of the Somerset Levels. The revitalized Congresbury Chew BATH
port of Bristol is famed as the home of graffiti artist, Banksy. Nearby Weston- Magna Marksbury Trowbridge
is the Georgian town of Bath, while to the south lie the cathedral super-Mare CHEDDAR Radstock
city of Wells and mystical Glastonbury, famous for its music festival. Axe GORGE Midsomer
Norton
Cheddar Beckington
Burnham- M e ndi p H ill s
on-Sea Frome
Lynton Lynmouth Selworthy Highbridge Wookey
Porlock Minehead Brue WELLS CATHEDRAL
Parracombe Watchet Huntspill Warminster
Dunkery Dunster Shepton Mallet
Beacon GLASTONBURY Maiden
Arlington 519m Washford Williton Pilton Bradley
EXMOOR Exford BRIDGWATER AND THE SOMERSET Street
LEVELS
NATIONAL PARK Brendon QUANTOCKS Castle East
Exton Hills Quantock Cary Knoyle
Brayford Hills Mere
Bishops Parrett Somerton Wincanton
Lydeard Langport Gillingham
Cranbourne Chase
South Dulverton Wiveliscombe
Molton SOMERSET Templecombe
TAUNTON Marston SHAFTESBURY
Oakford Bampton Hatch Ilchester Magna
Wellington Beauchamp
Sights at a Glance Corfe MONTACUTE SHERBORNE Sturminster Fordingbridge Avon Cadnam
1 Bournemouth y Cerne Abbas Culmstock Ilminster HOUSE Yeovil Newton DORSET Totton
2 Poole Harbour u Shaftesbury Shillingstone New Forest
3 Wimborne Minster i Sherborne Uffculme Chard Crewkerne Nor th Dor set Stour Verwood Lyndhurst Hythe
4 Isle of Purbeck o Montacute House Dunkerswell Yarcombe Winsham Downs Blandford Forum Beaulieu
5 Corfe Castle p Taunton Evershot Ringwood
6 Lulworth a Bridgwater and Beaminster CERNE ABBAS WIMBORNE Ferndown Brockenhurst
7 Weymouth the Quantocks Axe Axminster MINSTER Hurn
8 Isle of Portland s Cheddar Gorge p121 Key Frampton Puddletown Lymington
9 Abbotsbury d Exmoor National Park Motorway CHARMOUTH BRIDPORT Bere Regis Poole BOURNEMOUTH
0 Bridport pp122–3 Dual carriageway LYME REGIS MAIDEN DORCHESTER Piddle POOLE Poole
q Charmouth f Somerset Levels Main road JURASSIC CASTLE Frome HARBOUR B ay The
w Lyme Regis g Glastonbury COAST TOUR ABBOTSBURY Wool ISLE OF Needles
e Jurassic Coast Tour h Wells Cathedral pp124–5 Other road Preston Purbeck PURBECK Studland Cherbourg,
pp116–17 j Bristol pp126–7 Railway LULWORTH Hills Channel Islands
WEYMOUTH
r Dorchester k Bath pp128–31 County border Chesil Bank CORFE Swanage
t Maiden Castle Weymouth CASTLE
Bay
ISLE OF
PORTLAND
Easton
Isle of
Portland

Boats docked at the harbour in front of Weymouth’s atmospheric Old Town
For hotels and restaurants in this region see p177 and pp188–9

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