The Best Things in Dorchester, Dorset*

If you're around, be sure to check these things out

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• Nothing unless your a Thomas Hardye fanatic
• The amount of green foliage
• Good access 2 fast roads leading away from Dorch
• QUAINT TOWN, VERY CLOSE TO THE COUNTRY. GREAT FOR WALKS, CYCLING, HORSERIDING AND OTHER OUTDOOR STUFF. SAILING AND CLIMBING FANTASTIC IN PORTLAND. 2012 OLYMPICS COMING TO WEYMOUTH
• The nites out, the school
• Sign at top of ridgeway, greeting you to Weymouth. You know that the drive through Dorchester is over!
• it only takes 5 minutes to get out of Dorchester
• Everybody knows each other and the crime rate is extremely low!
• Pauls nightclub haha
• If u catch a train as quick as you can you might get out alive.
• nothin!!!
• Two railway stations. The Borough Gardens - if it weren't for all the noisy traffic.
• The annual Dorchester Conference covering "Unexplained Mysteries"
• i was born here, i went away, and 6 years later i've come back to raise my family here, beautiful countryside, very little crime, and of course my mum's here!
• The road out of Dorchester
• Weymouth is down the road you might as well skip dorch. go to hardy's swimming pool and beat up the kids on the inflatable
• takin the piss out of all the little shits on there blind and world decks and slipknot hoodies.
• The water,the Walks,the river Frome, the old watermeadows.
• Maiden Castle is just the most stunning place in the world. Don't be fooled- it's not actually a castle. Just go there are climb up and look at the view. The best time is summer, around 7pm.
• Replacing Hardy's school with a sylish and upmarket complex of new houses that actually shows some decent design compaired to Charles' attempt. Dorcester is becomming chique!
• The candle-lit Christmas Eve carol meeting in the park.
• I moved away!
• Dorset countryside -- can't be beaten. At all. Ever! Try living in a city for a while and you'll see what I mean. The beach is about twenty minutes drive away (that's Weymouth, but then there's Durdle Door which is great for those late night summer barbecues, Lulworth Cove -- ditto, and so on, and so on). We're surrounded to the point of engulfment by country pubs serving good food. It's a really great little town which is only spoiled by the attempts of well meaning but essentially clueless people in the councils to try to make it even more like that (if you know what I mean, it's kind of a "you can't manufacture it when you've already got it" thing).
• The County Museum -- a splendid building and full of wacky Victorian implements. For literature freaks the Writers' Gallery is a must
• Thomas Hardy
• The way that High East Street is east of High West Street, north of South Street and South of North Square.
• Maiden Castle
• Prince Charles's new village, Poundbury. Not very radical but looks like it would be dead nice to live in. Better by far than a crummy new estate of Semi-detacheds-with garage.
• Bakers Arms Pub
• Market (Thursdays)
• Eldridge Pope Brewery
• Pleasant Dorsety atmosphere to the place
• Army museum
• Maumbury Rings, the walk by the river, Maiden Castle, the Roman Town House and Thomas Hardy's birthplace are all good touristy attractions.
• Having Mark Cornick around.

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Last updated: 2008-11-27