Places of Interest
- Allsaints school
- Blandford Forest
- Bulbarrow Hill, including Rawlsbury camp.
- Dorsetshire Gap, a steep valley.
- Cerne valley, including Cerne Abbas Giant.
- Hambledon Hill and Hod Hill, two hills cut off from the downs in the Blackmore Vale.
- Milton Abbas, 18th century planned estate village and museum
- Nettlecombe Tout hill fort.
- Ringmoor settlement and field system.
- Shillingstone Hill, a densely wooded scarp face with a large quarry.
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