LEAVING Bournemouth by way of Westbourne and County Gates, we cross the Hampshire border and enter Dorsetshire. Continuing through Upper Parkstone, we reach Sea View, where a wonderful view of Poole Harbour and the Purbeck Hills is obtained. In the middle of Poole Harbour will be seen Brownsea Island, where Sir Robert Baden-Powell first formed the Boy Scout Movement and where Marconi first experimented with wireless, successfully transmitting messages to the Isle of Wight.

Travelling on through Oakdale to Upton, a short run brings us to the little village of Lytchett Minster. The estate on the right is the home of Sir John Lees.

Leaving Lytchett, a few miles farther on we enter the ancient town of Wareham through the North Gate. The town is surrounded by earthen ramparts of unknown age and the little church on the left, known as "St. Martin's on the Wall", was built in 701.

Leaving the town behind, we take the main Weymouth road, and as we reach higher ground fine views of the Frome Valley and the distant Purbeck Hills are obtained. Turning left, we cross over the River Frome, and a delightful run over Holme Heath brings us to East Lulworth, a delightful village of old thatched cottages. Here is Lulworth Castle, the sixteenth-century seat of the Weld family, burnt out in August 1929, only the massiveness of the walls saving it from complete collapse. Near to the Castle stands the first Catholic Church to be built in England after the Reformation.

We now descend a long hill into the quaint little village of West Lulworth, with its cottages of irregular height, size and frontage, the road ending at the white pebbly beach of the Cove, which is 1,380 feet across, broken only by the one narrow entrance which opens out to the sea.

On the return journey we pass through Wool, where the old Manor House of the Turbervilles, scene of Tess's Wedding Night in Thomas Hardy's novel "Tess of the D'Urbervilles" is to be seen. The Wool and Lulworth district is a training ground for the Royal Tank Corps.

By way of the tiny village of East Stoke, whose church dates back to 1828, we retrace our route to Wareham and so through Hamworthy and Poole to Bournemouth, after a tour through really beautiful Dorsetshire countryside.