Poundbury Camp is an important settlement complex dating from the late Neolithic to Roman times, featuring a significant Iron Age hillfort and a large Late Roman cemetery with Christian...

Poole Park, designed by John Elford, was created in the late 19th century as a public space with a salt-water lake and various amenities. It retains its original layout today.

Bridehead is an early 19th-century park and garden, known for its ornamental village designed by Peter Frederick Robinson and Benjamin Ferrey.

Weatherby Castle is a well-preserved Iron Age hillfort, showcasing characteristic multivallate earthworks.

Bingham's Melcombe, with 16th-century formal gardens, was restored in the mid-20th century by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe and Brenda Colvin. The estate features historical gardens and woodland.

Exercise SMASH was a live-fire rehearsal for D-Day undertaken at Studland, Dorset, in April 1944. Of particular interest was the testing of a new variation of tank.

The official listing for all World Heritage sites is held by UNESCO and can be found on their website.

Nash Court (now three dwellings currently known as Nash Court, Manor House and Nash Lodge) is a substantial house originating in the late C16/C17, with alterations and additions in the C18,...

Former explosives factory of 1916 for the Royal Navy. Variously updated and reconstructed until production ceased in 1945, though parts of the site remained in use until 1997.

Bowl barrows are prehistoric monuments from 2400-1500 BC, significant for understanding early social structures.

Charborough Park evolved from a 17th-century estate, notable for its association with the Glorious Revolution and visits by Frederick, Prince of Wales.

The Rings, a medieval ringwork and bailey with Civil War battery near Corfe Castle, illustrate fortification reuse across centuries, notably from the 12th to 17th centuries.

A public sculpture by Elisabeth Frink commemorating those who in the C16 and C17 had been executed for their religious beliefs at Gallows Hill in Dorchester, designed in 1983 and installed...

Kingston Lacy has rich historical connections, including links to the de Lacy family, Lady Margaret Beaufort, and transformations by the Bankes family over the centuries.

The structural remains of RAF Ringstead Chain Home Radar Station (AMES12B), built in 1941.

Mortar Wreck is the remains of a clinker-built, sea-going vessel, built of Irish oak and dated by dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) to the mid-13th century.

HM submarine A3 was built by Vickers, Sons & Maxim Ltd. in Barrow-in-Furness. She was launched in March 1903 and commissioned on 13th July 1904.

Tithe barn. Built in the mid-C16, incorporating a reused, late C15 roof.

Kingston Maurward features 18th-century parkland and lake with early 20th-century gardens by Sir Cecil and Lady Hanbury. Historical figures include George Pitt and Thomas Hardy.

An extensive landscape park laid out in the second half of the C18 by Lancelot Brown.