Guidebook for Dorset

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Guidebook for Dorset

Food Scene

Tasty homecooked grub for a reasonable price and better than the pretentious Beach House on Mudeford Sandbank where the food looks good but has no flavour. (Except for the salad.)
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Haven House Inn
Mudeford
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Tasty homecooked grub for a reasonable price and better than the pretentious Beach House on Mudeford Sandbank where the food looks good but has no flavour. (Except for the salad.)
Great cakes at the cafe next to the mini-golf. Cream teas -- or lagers, if you prefer -- and reasonable cafe lunches. There's also a pub across the road if you are after something more substantial.
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Southbourne
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Great cakes at the cafe next to the mini-golf. Cream teas -- or lagers, if you prefer -- and reasonable cafe lunches. There's also a pub across the road if you are after something more substantial.

Drinks & Nightlife

Live rock on a Friday Night. Good crowd, nice pub.
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The Thomas Tripp
10 Wick Ln
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Live rock on a Friday Night. Good crowd, nice pub.

Sightseeing

Historic Priory and gorgeous walk around the back paths of Christchurch town, river and the quay.
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Christchurch Priory Church
Quay Road
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Historic Priory and gorgeous walk around the back paths of Christchurch town, river and the quay.

Parks & Nature

Beautiful national park with wild horses and thatched cottages.
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The New Forest
Lyndhurst Road
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Beautiful national park with wild horses and thatched cottages.
There is a Chinese garden at Boscombe, and there's also the pier on the beach (free entry, unlike Bournemouth pier).
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Boscombe
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There is a Chinese garden at Boscombe, and there's also the pier on the beach (free entry, unlike Bournemouth pier).
Load to do in this area -- walk or cycle along the length of the beach all the way down past Poole.
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Hengistbury Head
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Load to do in this area -- walk or cycle along the length of the beach all the way down past Poole.

Entertainment & Activities

Good little aquarium for the kids and right on the beach.
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Oceanarium
Pier Approach
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Good little aquarium for the kids and right on the beach.
Come on, who doesn't love running around in a dark maze to tekno music, shooting a weapon that looks like a light saber?
Laser Quest Bournemouth
Glen Fern Road
Come on, who doesn't love running around in a dark maze to tekno music, shooting a weapon that looks like a light saber?

Essentials

There is a selection of shops nearby for clothes, food, laundry, pharmaceuticals, and takeaways.
Somerford Road
Somerford Road
There is a selection of shops nearby for clothes, food, laundry, pharmaceuticals, and takeaways.

Getting Around

Bus stop for going into Christchurch or Bournemouth
Somerford Hotel station
Bus stop for going into Christchurch or Bournemouth