Our trip to Dorset, last week .....

Abbotsbury Castle, an iron age hill fort on Weirs Hill near Abbotsbury...

 

Looking towards Portland and Chesil Beach ... with St Catherine's Chapel in the foreground....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abbotsbury....

 

 

 

The abbey ruins can be seen to the right of the church...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weirs Hill ......

 

 

 

 

On the road to Abbotsbury....

 

 

 

The bungalow in Weymouth ......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weymouth .....

 

 

 

 

 

Back in Abbotsbury to visit St Catherine's Chapel which was built in the 14th century and constructed entirely of stone.... the climb to the top affords lovely views over the village...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the climb mum deserved a cuppa ...!

 

 

 

 

Pixie enjoying a rest after a busy day's sightseeing....

 

 

Melbury Osmund where Thomas Hardy's Mum was born, and his parents married ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas Hardy's Mum's house ....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ham Hill, Somerset ..... a hillfort with two or three ditches and ramparts probably constructed in the Iron Age.....  and it has its own pub!

 

 

 

 

 

Pixie arguing with the locals ....

 

 

looks like they may have agreed to disagree!

 

 

 

Stone circle put up by the quarrymen....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As well as walking, Pixie enjoys sheep spotting ....

 

 

and practising her Crufts pose ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back at the bungalow ....

 

 

 

 

 

Portland Bill ......

 

 

Something Mum and me could consider maybe....

 

 

 

 

Rufus Castle, Portland (also known as Bow and Arrow Castle).... a late medieval fortification built by Richard Duke of York between 1432 and 1460 .....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Old church of St Andrews.... on the east side of the Isle of Portland.  It was partly dismantled in 1756.  Excavations revealed there were foundations of an earlier church built before the 12th century and probably before the Norman Conquest!

 

 

 

 

 

An interesting house....

 

 

 Weymouth ......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

West Bay ......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lyme Regis, home of Mary Anning the famous fossil hunter  .....