Other sights in DorsetDorset, England

Three brilliant white chalk stacks and stumps at the seaward tip of the Purbeck, marking the eastern start of the Jurassic Coast.

Britain's largest chalk giant — a 55-metre club-wielding figure on the hill above Cerne Abbas, of much-argued age.

The only English hill figure carrying a rider — King George III on horseback — cut above Weymouth in 1808.

A wave-cut Purbeck quarry ledge dropping to the sea, with a small tidal pool blasted into the rock for Victorian schoolboys.

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

A dramatic disused sea-cliff quarry of galleries and caves opening straight onto the water below Worth Matravers.