1. Broadchurch was filmed at West Bay near Bridport.
2. Poole Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in the world, the largest being Sydney, Australia.
3. The Celtic name “Dorseteschire” means the place of fisticuffs!
4. The famous Hovis advert with a delivery boy seen pushing a bike up a steeply cobbled street lined with thatched cottages was filmed at Gold Hill, Shaftesbury.
5. The Dorset Naga is claimed to be the World’s hottest chilli and grown here in Dorset.
6. The Cenotaph, St Paul’s Cathedral and Buckingham Palace are all made of Portland Stone quarried on the Isle of Portland.
7. Brownsea Island is a nature reserve owned by The National Trust, it is known as the place Scouting was started in 1907 by Lord Baden-Powell.
8. Green Island, in Poole Harbour, is mentioned in the Dooms Day Book.
9. Enid Blyton based a lot of her Famous Five books on adventures around the Dorset coast.
10. The Jurassic Coast was the first ever site to make the UNESCO World Heritage list.
11. The first ever fossil shop was opened in Lyme Regis in 1826 by a palaeontologist called Mary Anning.
12. The village of Howell is home to the oldest post-box in the UK.
13. You can expect to live up to 2 years longer than the average English person if you live in this beautiful county.
14. The questions and answers to the classic game of Trivial Pursuit were researched in the Weymouth public library.
15. Dorset in the only county in the whole of England lacking a motor way.
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