At the Purbeck site, the castle and toilets will be open from Wednesday, along with the National Trust car park at Castle View. Meanwhile in Wimborne, only the park and gardens of Kingston Lacey ...

The Northern Lights are not a common spectacle in Dorset, but there are some places where you have a better chance of seeing ...

Hundreds of coast and countryside car parks are also open ... When arriving at Kingston Lacy visitors must have their ticket ready to show staff at the Visitor Reception either on a phone or ...

It’s just the place for outdoor adventures. I leave the Rings, avoiding the car park, for one last treat. The Kingston Lacy beech avenue, 2½ miles long, is one of the tree wonders of England. Still ...

The 17th-century Kingston Lacy, in Dorset ... of pipework involved drilling 32 vertical boreholes in an overflow car park, with each hole measuring a staggering 180m in depth.