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Three Days in Dorset – Day 1

Dorset, a beautiful county about ninety minutes’ drive west of London Heathrow Airport, includes the main towns of Dorchester, Shaftesbury, Bournemouth, Weymouth and Bridport. Dorset shares borders with Devon to the west, Somerset to the northwest, Wiltshire to the northeast and Hampshire to the East.

We have already described a lovely cottage in Shaftesbury, Updown Cottage, that we used to use when we visit Dorset. Shaftesbury is on the northern edge of the county, …