Bristol Airport 1 hr 43
Forde Abbey House and Gardens (34 min)
Country house setting for a garden centre stocking perennials and grasses, plus gift shop and cafe. Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre (15 min)
Visitor center with fossil displays including an ichthyosaur, plus Jurassic Coast information. Guided Fossil Hunting walks Collecting (15 min)
Fossils are found amid rocks in this scenic coastal area featuring an educational guided tour. Golden Cap (11 min)
Picturesque, golden-topped hill & cliffs overlooking the coast with walking trails & fossil finds. Abbotsbury Subtropical Gardens (27 min)
18th-century garden with rare plants and notable magnolia and camellia blooms, plus a restaurant. Seaton Tramway (30 min)
Picturesque 3-mi. tramway with rides on half-scale replicas of vintage electric tram cars. Dinosaurland Fossil Museum (19 min)
Palaeontologist's collection of more than 9000 specimens, on show in a former Congregational church. Forde Abbey (34 min)
Garden, abbey, and monastery Lyme Regis Marine Aquarium (23 min)
2-room aquarium featuring a variety of local sea life & pools where visitors can hand-feed mullet. The Town Mill (18 min) Charmouth Beach (15 min)
Small, mellow beach for swimming, picnics & fossil hunting, plus nearby cafes & shops. Lyme Regis Museum (18 min)
Local history, geology and fossil displays on show in a purpose-built Victorian building. Mapperton House & Gardens (25 min)
Jacobean manor with Earl of Sandwich's collection since the 1950s, plus gardens & a croquet lawn. Monmouth Beach (23 min)
Relaxed beach featuring a stony shoreline & a multitude of ancient fossil imprints in the rocks. Abbotsbury Swannery (34 min)
Sanctuary for 600 mute swans on the site of an 11th-century monastery, plus kids' play and a maze. | 
