Guidebook for Swanage

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Guidebook for Swanage

Sightseeing

Award-winning restoration of a Victorian folly, which now houses a restaurant and visitor centre.
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Durlston Country Park en National Nature Reserve
Lighthouse Road
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Award-winning restoration of a Victorian folly, which now houses a restaurant and visitor centre.
Wonderful heritage railway with frequent trips on restored steam and diesel engines to Corfe Castle. Also runs special restaurant trains and Santa specials.
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Swanage Railway Company
Station Road
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Wonderful heritage railway with frequent trips on restored steam and diesel engines to Corfe Castle. Also runs special restaurant trains and Santa specials.
Restored Victorian Pier for strolling to see the fantastic views of Swanage Bay, or to take boat Trips to Poole or Bournemouth or along the Jurassic Coast.
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Swanage Pier
Swanage Pier
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Restored Victorian Pier for strolling to see the fantastic views of Swanage Bay, or to take boat Trips to Poole or Bournemouth or along the Jurassic Coast.
The most evocative ruin in England
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Corfe Castle Cafe
The Square
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The most evocative ruin in England
Traditional quayside only a short boat trip from Swanage
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Dolphin Quay
The Quay
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Traditional quayside only a short boat trip from Swanage

Everything Else

Charlie will rent you a bike and dispense masses of invaluable local Knowledge about where to ride (and where to stop for refreshments).
Bikemonger
2 Duck Hill
Charlie will rent you a bike and dispense masses of invaluable local Knowledge about where to ride (and where to stop for refreshments).
The famous Ape sanctuary as featured on its own TV programme for the last 18 years.
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Monkey World - Apen Reddingscentrum
Longthorns
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The famous Ape sanctuary as featured on its own TV programme for the last 18 years.
Small local history museum which is indispensable for learning about the interesting and varied past of the town.
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Swanage Museum
The Square
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Small local history museum which is indispensable for learning about the interesting and varied past of the town.
Arne RSPB Nature Reserve has a visitor centre from where you can take guided tours, or walk unescorted through the woods to the hides overlooking the wetlands of Poole Harbour. A must for bird lovers.
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Arne
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Arne RSPB Nature Reserve has a visitor centre from where you can take guided tours, or walk unescorted through the woods to the hides overlooking the wetlands of Poole Harbour. A must for bird lovers.
Accessible by boat from Swanage or Poole, this is the island where the first Boy Scout camp was held. Now a nature reserve with one of the last remaining red squirrel populations in England.
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Brownsea Island
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Accessible by boat from Swanage or Poole, this is the island where the first Boy Scout camp was held. Now a nature reserve with one of the last remaining red squirrel populations in England.
A fabulous stretch of sand where you can swim, build sand castles and even, on one part, sunbathe in the nude! Cafes at Knoll, Middle and South Beaches.
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Studland Naturist Beach
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A fabulous stretch of sand where you can swim, build sand castles and even, on one part, sunbathe in the nude! Cafes at Knoll, Middle and South Beaches.

Food Scene

Excellent food on a fixed price menu, right in the centre of town.
Corner Restaurant
1 Institute Rd
Excellent food on a fixed price menu, right in the centre of town.
Modern British restaurant specialising in local produce.
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Chilled Red
1-5 Commercial Rd
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Modern British restaurant specialising in local produce.
If the weather is good there is no finer place to dine (or lunch, or snack, or drink) than Gee White's famous seafood bar. Try the dressed crab, or go for the whole seafood platter.
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Gee Whites Seafood Restaurant
1 High St
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If the weather is good there is no finer place to dine (or lunch, or snack, or drink) than Gee White's famous seafood bar. Try the dressed crab, or go for the whole seafood platter.

Entertainment & Activities

Great for mechanically minded boys and girls of any age.
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Het Tankmuseum
Linsay Road
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Great for mechanically minded boys and girls of any age.

Drinks & Nightlife

Believed by many to be the best pub in England, with stone floors, a tiny bar, brilliant location and roaring fires in winter. It has its own cider and its own fossil museum.
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The Square and Compass
Worth Matravers
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Believed by many to be the best pub in England, with stone floors, a tiny bar, brilliant location and roaring fires in winter. It has its own cider and its own fossil museum.
A rambling ivy-covered pub with stunning views from the large garden. Good food, including a genuine Jamaican jerk barbecue in summer.
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The Scott Arms
West Street
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A rambling ivy-covered pub with stunning views from the large garden. Good food, including a genuine Jamaican jerk barbecue in summer.