With temperatures set to soar to 18c in Dorset coming days, here are even more places you can visit before the crowds arrive ...

With temperatures set to soar to 18c in Dorset coming days, here are even more places you can visit before the crowds arrive for the summer season ...

Brownsea Castle, located on an island off the coast of Dorset, was built in 1547 during the reign of Henry VIII. Since the 1960s it has been exclusively used by John Lewis and Waitrose employees ...

Archaeologists have re-dated the Flagstones monument in Dorset back to 3200 BC - more than two centuries earlier than previously thought. According to new research from the University of Exeter ...

Elsewhere, Durdle Door was named the best place to watch the sunset in the UK. It is one of Dorset’s most photographed spots, ...

Dunnottar Castle, situated around two miles south of Stonehaven, was named the eighth best place to watch the sunset in the ...

It is thought she was part of the Durotriges tribe that lived in what is now Dorset and was buried at Kimmeridge on the Isle of Purbeck. Her almost complete skeleton fell out of the cliff due to ...

How people kept castles safe How enemies attacked castles Features of Caerlaverock Castle The impact of cannons on castle building This resource is suitable for Castles topics for primary school ...

Brownsea Castle, a 500-year-old former fort in Dorset, is run as a subsidised perk for John Lewis’s 70,000 partners. Now the retailer is preparing to lower the drawbridge to the general public ...