Preston - Dorset is a Village in the county of Dorset.

Preston - Dorset postcode: DT3 6DP

Retail in Preston - Dorset

There are great places to visit near Preston - Dorset including some great towns, waterfalls, villages, historic buildings, historic monuments, ancient sites, hills, castles, ruins and airports.

Towns to visit near Preston - Dorset include Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Weymouth, Bridport, Beaminster, Wareham, and Blandford Forum.

Jericho Weir is a great place to visit close to Preston - Dorset if you like waterfalls.

There are a several good villages in the Preston - Dorset area like Uplyme, Bincombe, Symondsbury, and Abbotsbury.

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Preston - Dorset like The Cobb.

Preston - Dorset is near some unmissable historic monuments like King's Statue (King George III Statue),

Ancient Sites to visit near Preston - Dorset include Eggardon Hill, Hambledon Hill, Badbury Rings, Kingston Russell Stone Circle, The Nine Stones, and Maiden Castle.

Eggardon Hill is a great place to visit close to Preston - Dorset if you like hills.

Corfe Castle is a great place to visit close to Preston - Dorset if you like castles.

The area close to Preston - Dorset boasts some of the best ruins including Corfe Castle.

The area around Preston - Dorset's best airports can be found at Bournemouth Airport.

Preston - Dorset History

There are some historic monuments around Preston - Dorset:

• Mayne stone circle (at Little Mayne Farm)
• Bowl barrow 615m north east of Hardy's Birthplace
• Earthwork in Bowley's Plantation
• Barrow E of Red Barn
• Long barrow and four bowl barrows 500m north west of Whitfield Farm
• Group of barrows in Seven Barrow Plantation
• Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery (P3 Verne), 275m south-west of Fancy's Farm
• Group of barrows on the golf course, Came Down
• Colliton Park Roman house
• Round barrow NE of Friar Waddon
• Sandy Barrow
• Multi-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fields
• Round barrow 1/4 mile (400m) N of Ridge Hill
• Bowl barrow 380m west of Whitfield Farm
• Two round barrows on Ridgeway
• Bowl barrow 780m north east of Hampton Farm
• Two round barrows on Ridgeway
• Round barrow cemetery immediately south east of Maiden Castle
• Barrow 200yds (180m) N of the White Horse
• Two round barrows S of Ashton Farm
• Medieval settlement 850m north of St Mary's Church
• Barrow 500yds (450m) E of village
• Group of barrows E of Northdown Barn
• Group of round barrows near Eweleaze Barn
• Round barrow SW of Ashton Cottages
• Upton Fort, a coastal artillery battery and two searchlight emplacements
• Romano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan Hill
• East Weare rifle range
• Dorchester Roman walls
• Group of barrows on West Hill
• Bell barrow in Highfield Plantation and two bowl barrows immediately north west of Forty Acre Plantation
• Barrow on parish boundary
• Round barrow N of Ashton Cottages
• George III, chalk-cut hill side figure
• Poundbury Camp, associated monuments and section of Roman aqueduct.
• Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 800m south west of Coombe Barn
• Group of round barrows on Ridgeway
• Group of round barrows on North Bincombe Hill, S of Came Wood
• Two round barrows N of Bincombe Barn
• Long barrow immediately north west of Maiden Castle
• Three barrows N of Penn Hill
• Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 600m west of Stafford Farm
• Barrow S of Common Plantation
• Humpty Dumpty Field, Radipole
• Long barrow NW of Red Barn
• Long barrow 400yds (360m) NW of Hill Barn
• Three bowl barrows on Puddletown Heath, 550m south west of Beacon Corner
• Round barrow on Shorn Hill
• Roman road over Thorncombe Wood and Black Heath
• Cross in St Mary's churchyard
• Round barrow N of Boswell's Plantation
• Group of barrows S of Goldsmith's Plantation
• Nothe Fort, tramway and searchlight battery at The Nothe
• The Verne Citadel
• Preston Roman villa
• Group of four round barrows in Cripton Wood
• Henge Enclosure, Conquer Barrow and Barrow Cemetery
• Fishpond at West Ringstead, 590m south of Pit House
• Six round barrows W of Came Down
• Oval barrow and three bowl barrows 250m and 330m south of Whitcombe Barn
• Four barrows on Moigns Down
• Barrow S of Three-Cornered Plantation
• Group of round barrows W of Ridgeway Hill
• Two round barrows N of Came Farm
• Battery 200yds (180m) E of the Naval cemetery
• Four bowl barrows immediately north west of Maiden Castle
• Discontinuous surviving sections of Roman aqueduct
• Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill
• Settlement remains N of Maiden Castle
• Cross-ridge dyke on Windsbatch
• Bowl barrow 450m north west of Duck Dairy House
• Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent
• Portland Castle
• The Rainbarrows, a group of three bowl barrows on Duddle Heath
• Round barrow E of Bayard's Barn
• Two bowl barrows 720m south east of Friar Waddon House
• Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 400m north east of Duck Dairy House
• Part of Roman, Saxon, and medieval town in grounds of Wollaston House
• Bowl barrow 360m south west of Clandon Farm
• Medieval settlement at Holworth
• Four bowl barrows on Hog Hill, west and north west of Maiden Castle
• Round barrows on Grove Hill
• Culliford Tree long barrow and group of round barrows
• Six round barrows on Bincombe Down
• Round barrows on Four Barrow Hill
• Three barrows S of Poxwell Big Wood
• Medieval settlement at West Ringstead
• Bell barrow 70m west of Fidler's Green
• Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill 500m north of Whitcombe Farm
• Group of round barrows on Shorn Hill and Bronkham Hill
• Barrows in Came Wood
• Herringston round barrows
• Medieval settlement remains at Whitcombe
• RAF Portland, site of Rotor early warning radar station
• Friar Waddon Hill round barrows
• Two bowl barrows immediately south of Bayard Dairy
• Group of round barrows on Bincombe Hill
• Sandsfoot Castle
• Three barrows S of Hart Hill Plantation
• Bowl barrow on Wood Hill 310m north east of Cowden
• Six barrows on Ridgeway Hill
• Two barrows 600yds (550m) N of Halls Farm
• Round barrows on Ridgeway
• Maiden Castle
• Round barrow 250yds (230m) W of Fryer Mayne manor house
• Icehouse at Ringstead, 660m south west of Pit House
• Two barrows at Rew
• Sandy Barrow W of East Farm Dairy
• Round barrow on Ridgeway Hill
• Round barrow N of Ridgeway
• Bowl barrow 500m north east of Clandon Farm
• Two round barrows at Down Wood
• Bowl barrow185m WSW of Higher Skippet Farm
• Huck Barrow in Knighton Heath Wood
• Bowl barrow 600m south of Whitcombe Farm
• Three bowl barrows 530m and 350m north east of Whitcombe Barn
• Kerbed cairn 590m south east of Poxwell Manor
• The Clandon Barrow, 450m west of Clandon Farm
• Tudor and 17th century farmstead and Romano-British settlement
• Long barrow, three bell barrows, fancy barrow and a linear earthwork 800m north of Maiden Castle
• Group of round barrows on and to E of Great Hill
• Disc barrow 715m west of Bayard Farm
• Roman road in Kingston Park
• Henge, Romano-British amphitheatre and Civil War fieldworks known collectively as Maumbury Rings
• Medieval settlement of Winterborne Farringdon and associated remains