The county of Dorset:

• 2653 square kilometres in area

• 50% of the County is in the Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

• coastline, virtually all of which is defined as Heritage Coast#

• 143 Sites of Scientific Interest

• 9 National Nature Reserves

• 861 Scheduled Ancient Monuments

• 224 Conservation Areas

• 50% of the population of the county is in the Bournemouth/Poole conurbation

• 3,000 miles of rights of way made up of approximately 4700 footpaths, 1700 bridleways and 37 byways open to all traffic.