Places to explore near Wool StationWool

Around Thomas Hardy's Wessex from his birthplace cottage to the churchyard at Stinsford, via Corfe Castle and Lulworth Cove.

0.6 km SE · Dorset & Wiltshire

Chalk ridges, quiet combes and one of the finest coastlines in England, from Lyme Bay to Purbeck

0.8 km E

Dorset's "Isle" of Purbeck, a peninsula of chalk and limestone on the Jurassic Coast, with sea stacks, quarried stone and a ruined castle

4.2 km SW

A 17th-century mock castle built as a grand hunting lodge, gutted by fire and now an open shell in the Dorset parkland

4.8 km S

630 miles around England's toe — the longest and most demanding of the National Trails.

6.5 km S · spans 4 counties

Near-perfect circular bay scooped from folded limestone.

7.2 km S

A hidden cove of jagged rocks and rockpools east of Lulworth, reached over the cliffs past the fossil forest.

7.3 km S

A deserted Purbeck village requisitioned in 1943 and never returned, its roofless cottages, school and church preserved on the army ranges.

7.5 km SE

A wide, empty crescent of shingle and cliff below the abandoned Tyneham valley, open only when the Lulworth ranges are quiet.

7.6 km S

Sheltered swimming cove beside Durdle Door, screened by the Man O' War rocks.

7.6 km SW

A Saxon walled town between the Frome and Piddle rivers, its grid of Georgian streets running down to a riverside quay near Poole Harbour.

7.6 km E · Dorset

The limestone sea arch that defines the Jurassic Coast.

7.7 km SW

The old sycamore on Tolpuddle's green where six farm workers met in 1834 and set the trade-union movement going

9.2 km NW

A flooded old clay pit near Wareham whose water shifts between turquoise and green as the light changes, ringed by Purbeck heathland

9.3 km E

A Dorset chalk river running through water meadows past Dorchester and Wareham to Poole Harbour.

0.2 km N · Dorset

Border to border across Dorset, Forde Abbey to Bokerley Dyke, laid out by Ramblers volunteers for their diamond jubilee in 1995.

3.7 km W · Dorset

A National Trust place in Dorset.

4.5 km NW

A Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset.

5.2 km S

A National Nature Reserve in Dorset.

6.9 km SE

An award-winning Piddle Valley village of old thatched cob cottages, quietly set among water meadows and heath.

6.9 km NW · Dorset

One path around a whole country — beach, clifftop and seawall the entire way round England's coast, opening stretch by stretch.

7.2 km S · spans 24 counties

A tranquil sculpture park of three lakes, ponds and ornamental gardens set with monumental bronze and stone works in the Frome valley.

7.2 km NW