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Wareham would be the perfect spot for a Time Team holiday – this little Dorset town is simply stuffed with history for Channel 4’s experts to devour.
One of England’s last Saxon walled towns and where Civil War battles once raged, these days its streets are lined with pretty Georgian cottages of red brick and Purbeck limestone leading down to a little quay. Here you can kayak along the River Frome, buy delicious cheeses from the farmers’ market or sit with a pint gazing across heathland at the 1,000-year-old Corfe Castle that dramatically crowns the nearby Purbeck Hills.
All this is just a few miles – as the pterodactyl flies – from the fossil-rich beaches of the Jurassic Coast.