Lewesdon Hill is just one of the many Iron Age hill forts in West Dorset. Located just south of Broadwindsor, 8 miles north of Bridport, and now owned by the National Trust.  It is the highest point in Dorset at 279m (next door hill fort Pilsdon Pen is a mere 277m). Each hill fort has it’s own [...]

  There is a Rosa rugosa hedge in the garden. Although the flowers are more or less over for this year, it is from now until well into the autumn that it really comes into its own. Never have you seen such large and luscious rose hips. They are the size of cherry tomatoes, glossy and plump. [...]

It began with of a regime of housework which was, quite frankly, sub-standard. But now a spider has made such a fine web in a dusty corner it seems cruel to undo all her work  (she must surely be a ‘she’ – like Charlotte).  She has been here for a good couple of weeks. So she sits, and [...]

Take a walk eastwards along the South West Coast path from Burton Bradstock and after about a mile you reach Cogden Beach. At first this stretch of coastline would not appear to be that interesting from a nature watching point of view. But how wrong first impressions can be. Along the path itself, what seems at first to be [...]

There are little gems hiding in the far corner of a small field of rough pasture, which is itself hidden in a far corner of West Dorset. For most of the year the site is unprepossessing. The slope is steep and the going is extremely boggy. It appears to be nothing but rough sedge, creeping [...]