Picturesque Villages in Dorset

Sydling St Nicholas, Dorset

This is a particularly scenic village lying deep in a chalk-stream valley between open downs. Every approach to it is beautiful, whether crossing the hills from Cerne Abbas or Maiden Newton, or coming up the waters of the River Cerne between meadows flooded with spring lambs and ponies.

Tyneham, Dorset

Known as the Ghost village of Dorset, the village of Tyneham was requisitioned by the War Office during 1943, with all 225 residents having to leave their homes. The army never...

Whitcombe, Dorset

A small picturesque Dorset village just 2 miles southeast of the historic market town of Dorchester.

Witchampton, Dorset

Worth Matravers, Dorset

Picturesque Dorset village with a history pre-dating Roman times as evidenced by the medieval lynchets cut into the steep hillsides.