www.thedorsetpage.com is a unique and individual website perhaps gives one of the most concise introductions to the county, its history, its places and its people, with some lovely photographs too!

www.jurassiccoast.com - website featuring The Jurassic Coast - Britain’s first World Heritage Site, that really put Dorset on the map!

www.dorsetforyou.com is Dorset County Council’s Website - visit the tourism and countryside pages to find out more about the more beautiful parts of the county

www.pooletourism.com - The tourism website for Poole, that features THIS STUNNING VIDEO showing Poole Harbour and Sandbanks from the air.

www.dorsetflag.webs.com - The new Dorset Flag website, and there is more detailed information about the flag design and its history within the FLAG OF DORSET Wikipedia page

Dorset is located at the centre of the southern coast of England, although it considers itself as part of England’s Westcountry.  It has a relatively small population, the majority of which is based in the conurbations of Bournemouth and Poole to the south east of the county.  

The majority of the county is very rural, which makes most of it very beautiful.  Dorset is home to the second largest natural harbour in the world (at Poole) and the largest manmade harbour in the world (at Portland), which will be hosting the sailing events for the Olympics in 2012.  It is world famous for its authors Thomas Hardy and Enid Blyton based her “Famous Five” stories around the  Purbeck countryside, and as the birthplace of Scouting (on Brownsea Island) in 1908.  Some of Dorset’s scenery is spectacular and its coastline from Swanage in the south through to Lyme Regis in the west is now part of The Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.