Ridge Farm Camping & Caravan Park
Ridge Farm is a quiet rural park, next to a working farm and surrounded by trees and bushes.…
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Hartland Moor NNR, adjacent to Stoborough Heath NNR, is famous for its spectacular mosaic of open heathland and bogs, which support some of England’s rarest wildlife. In addition to many specialised plants, the reserve is home to insects, reptiles and birds that are rarely found elsewhere. Typical plants are ling heather, cross-leaved heath, bell heather, bog asphodel, white beak sedge, western gorse, and rarities such as Dorset heath, marsh gentian and bog orchid. There are over 500 heathland invertebrates including the rare heath and large marsh grasshoppers, the heath tiger beetle and the heath bee-fly, plus the smallest butterfly, the silver-studded blue, and the largest moth, the Emperor hawk moth. Bird life on the reserve includes the Dartford warbler, hobby, meadow pipit, stonechat, nightjar and hen harrier, and the moor is home to all six native reptiles: the smooth snake, grass snake, adder, sand lizard, common lizard and slow worm.
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Dorset means rugged varied coastlines and high chalk downlands. Squeezed in among the cliffs and set amid some of Britain’s most beautiful scenery is a chain of picturesque villages and seaside towns. Along the coast you’ll find the Lulworth Ranges, which run from Kimmeridge Bay in the east to Lulworth Cove in the west. Together with a stretch of East Devon, this is Britain’s Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, noted for its layers of shale and numerous fossils embedded in the rock. Among the best-known natural landmarks on this stretch of the Dorset coast is Durdle Door, a rocky arch that has been shaped and sculpted to perfection by the elements. The whole area has the unmistakable stamp of prehistory.
Away from Dorset’s magical coastline lies a landscape with a very different character and atmosphere, but one that is no less appealing. Here, winding, hedge-lined country lanes lead beneath lush, green hilltops to snug, sleepy villages hidden from view and the wider world. The people of Dorset are justifiably proud of the achievements of Thomas Hardy, its most famous son, and much of the county is immortalised in his writing.
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