Half a day Dorset / Somerset / Devon

[FettleOfKish]

Hi MNers, I wonder if anyone familiar with the Dorset / Somerset / Devon areas can help.

In September DH and I will be arriving in Poole by sea around 1pm, heading to stay with friends just over the Devon border. We don't need to be there until the evening (6/7pm) so I'm thinking of a mini-road trip or going a very long way round to see some of an area neither of us have been to before.

Does anyone have any suggestions for a nice scenic route, or a nice place to spend an hour or two along the way?

DH expressed an interest in seeing Stonehenge the other day, does that sound feasible at all?

We live on a coastal island and will be going to the beach at Lyme Regis over the weekend, so we'd prefer to look at the kind of rolling countryside that we don't have here

Thanks in advance.

I’d go via Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door

Oh great shout! For some reason I'd always assumed Durdle Door was in Cornwall

We also have a little time on the way back to Poole will definitely pay a visit there one way or the other.

Thanks

Stonehenge would be out of your way, you could go to Corfe Castle.

Out of our way isn't a problem, so long as it's not a ridiculous de-tour.

We don't live in England and I'm from the North so all visits generally are the Yorkshire / Lancashire / County Durham areas.

Who knows when we'll be in the South West again, so an hour or so to a place of interest isn't a problem.

Will look at Castle Corfe though

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