The Tank Museum
Nearly 300 armoured vehicles at Bovington, including the only running Tiger I in the world — the best military museum in Britain, and it needs a full…
Every major sight in and around Weymouth, from the landmark names to the quieter corners.
Dorset National Landscape
Chalk downs, hill forts, the Jurassic Coast and Chesil Beach — 1,129 square kilometres designated in 1959, and most of what makes Dorset worth…
SEA LIFE Weymouth
An aquarium at Lodmoor with a splash park, otters, penguins and a seal sanctuary — indoor and outdoor together, and one of the better SEA LIFE…
Weymouth Beach
Three miles of gently shelving golden sand in front of a Georgian esplanade — Punch and Judy, donkeys, and the beach that started English seaside…
Nothe Fort
A Victorian coastal fort at the harbour mouth with 70 rooms, a ramparts walk and big guns — volunteer-run, and much better than it was.
West Dorset Heritage Coast
The Jurassic Coast west of Weymouth — Chesil Beach, the Fleet, Golden Cap and the fossil cliffs, with the coast path running the whole way.
Alexandra Gardens
The arcade and fairground on the Esplanade — Weymouth's amusement centre, on the site of a 1924 concert hall that burned down in 1993.
Weymouth Harbour
A seventeenth-century waterfront with fishing boats, a lifting bridge and a rowing ferry — the best-looking harbour in England, and free to walk…
Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
Twelve kilometres north in Dorchester — Thomas Hardy's study reconstructed, the Maiden Castle finds, and a museum transformed by a major rebuild.
Sandsfoot Castle
The ruined half of Henry VIII's Weymouth defences, in a manicured clifftop garden with a view to Portland — free, and the best picnic spot in town.
Greenhill Gardens
A terraced public garden sloping to the seafront at the north end of Weymouth — free, immaculately kept, with a café and Sunday concerts in summer.