Osmington is a Village in the county of Dorset.

Retail in Osmington

There are great places to visit near Osmington including some great towns, waterfalls, villages, historic buildings, historic monuments, ancient sites, hills, castles, ruins and airports.

Towns to visit near Osmington include Lyme Regis, Charmouth, Weymouth, Bridport, Beaminster, and Wareham.

Don't miss Jericho Weir's waterfalls if visiting the area around Osmington.

Osmington has some unmissable villages nearby like Uplyme, Bincombe, and Symondsbury.

There are a several good historic buildings in the area around Osmington like The Cobb.

King's Statue (King George III Statue) is one of Osmington's best, nearby historic monuments to visit in Osmington.

Eggardon Hill is one of Osmington's best, nearby ancient sites to visit in Osmington.

Osmington is near some unmissable hills like Eggardon Hill,

Corfe Castle is one of Osmington's best, nearby castles to visit in Osmington.

Osmington is near some unmissable ruins like Corfe Castle,

Don't miss Bournemouth Airport's airports if visiting the area around Osmington.

Osmington History

There are some historic monuments around Osmington:

• Round barrow cemetery immediately south east of Maiden Castle
• Sandsfoot Castle
• Maiden Castle
• Battery 200yds (180m) E of the Naval cemetery
• Four bowl barrows immediately north west of Maiden Castle
• Settlement remains N of Maiden Castle
• Six round barrows W of Came Down
• Tudor and 17th century farmstead and Romano-British settlement
• Outer defences of Roman town, W of St Genevieve's Convent
• Lord's Barrow: a bowl barrow 500m north of Northground Dairy
• Bell barrow and bowl barrow 580m east of Clyffe House
• Bowl barrow on Wood Hill 310m north east of Cowden
• Group of barrows E of Northdown Barn
• Two round barrows N of Bincombe Barn
• Medieval settlement remains at Whitcombe
• Roman road in Kingston Park
• Two round barrows on Ridgeway
• Round barrow E of Bayard's Barn
• Bowl barrow 600m south of Whitcombe Farm
• Medieval settlement of Winterborne Farringdon and associated remains
• Barrows in Came Wood
• Two bowl barrows 560m south east of Hill Barn
• Medieval settlement at Holworth
• Nothe Fort, tramway and searchlight battery at The Nothe
• The Five Marys round barrow cemetery
• Two bowl barrows 200m south east of Hill Barn: two of a group of three barrows
• Bowl barrow to the west of Five Marys: an outlier to the Five Marys round barrow cemetery
• Three barrows S of Poxwell Big Wood
• Two barrows 600yds (550m) N of Halls Farm
• George III, chalk-cut hill side figure
• Bowl barrow 650m south of Chaldon Down Buildings: part of the Chaldon Down round barrow cemetery
• Long barrow 400yds (360m) NW of Hill Barn
• Bell barrow in Highfield Plantation and two bowl barrows immediately north west of Forty Acre Plantation
• Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill 500m north of Whitcombe Farm
• Round barrow N of Ashton Cottages
• Humpty Dumpty Field, Radipole
• Long barrow immediately north west of Maiden Castle
• RAF Portland, site of Rotor early warning radar station
• Herringston round barrows
• Two round barrows S of Ashton Farm
• Round barrow N of Boswell's Plantation
• Preston Roman villa
• Barrow 200yds (180m) N of the White Horse
• Two bowl barrows on Conygar Hill
• Barrow S of Common Plantation
• Colliton Park Roman house
• Bowl barrow 660m south of Chaldon Down Buildings: part of the Chaldon Down round barrow cemetery
• Romano-Celtic temple and associated remains at Jordan Hill
• Poundbury Camp, associated monuments and section of Roman aqueduct.
• Round barrows on Ridgeway
• The Rainbarrows, a group of three bowl barrows on Duddle Heath
• The Verne Citadel
• Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 800m south west of Coombe Barn
• Sandy Barrow W of East Farm Dairy
• Long barrow and four bowl barrows 500m north west of Whitfield Farm
• Four bowl barrows on Hog Hill, west and north west of Maiden Castle
• Sandy Barrow
• Part of Roman, Saxon, and medieval town in grounds of Wollaston House
• Kerbed cairn 590m south east of Poxwell Manor
• Bowl barrow 470m south east of Down Barn: an outlier of the Chaldon Down barrow group
• Two bowl barrows immediately south of Bayard Dairy
• Bowl barrow c.240m north of Chaldon Herring: part of a barrow group north of Chaldon Herring village
• Medieval settlement 850m north of St Mary's Church
• Long barrow, three bell barrows, fancy barrow and a linear earthwork 800m north of Maiden Castle
• Two bowl barrows c.280m north-east of Chaldon Herring: part of a barrow group north of Chaldon Herring village
• Bell barrow 70m west of Fidler's Green
• Group of round barrows on Bincombe Hill
• East Weare rifle range
• Six barrows on Ridgeway Hill
• Icehouse at Ringstead, 660m south west of Pit House
• Mayne stone circle (at Little Mayne Farm)
• Bowl barrow 450m north west of Duck Dairy House
• Roman road over Thorncombe Wood and Black Heath
• Bowl barrow at Five Marys: an outlier to the Five Marys round barrow cemetery
• Tadnoll Barrow
• Earthwork in Bowley's Plantation
• Four bowl barows 710m north, 750m north west and 950m north west of Clyffe House
• Three bowl barrows on Puddletown Heath, 550m south west of Beacon Corner
• Barrow 500yds (450m) E of village
• Six round barrows on Bincombe Down
• Upton Fort, a coastal artillery battery and two searchlight emplacements
• Multi-period archaeological landscape centred on and including a slight univallate hillfort called Chalbury, two bowl barrows, part of a Bronze Age urnfield and a series of medieval strip fields
• Bowl barrow 200m south east of Hill Barn: one of a group of three barrows
• Two bowl barrows 280m north of Clyffe House
• Barrow S of Tinker's Barrow Plantation
• Round barrow 250yds (230m) W of Fryer Mayne manor house
• Portland Castle
• Discontinuous surviving sections of Roman aqueduct
• Bowl barrow 615m north east of Hardy's Birthplace
• Bowl barrow c.200m NNW of Chaldon Herring: part of a barrow group north of Chaldon Herring village
• Fishpond at West Ringstead, 590m south of Pit House
• Round barrow 1/4 mile (400m) N of Ridge Hill
• Wardstone Barrow: a bowl barrow on the Dorset coastal ridge 300m south of Chideock Farm
• Three bowl barrows 530m and 350m north east of Whitcombe Barn
• Bowl barrow 380m west of Whitfield Farm
• Huck Barrow in Knighton Heath Wood
• Dorchester Roman walls
• Two bowl barrows 750m east of Clyffe House
• Two round barrows N of Came Farm
• Bowl barrow 550m south of Chaldon Down Buildings: part of the Chaldon Down round barrow cemetery
• Group of barrows on West Hill
• Bowl barrow 500m north east of Clandon Farm
• Cross-ridge dyke on Windsbatch
• Group of four round barrows in Cripton Wood
• Barrow on Galton Heath
• Two bowl barrows 640m north of Squibbs Farm
• Bowl barrow on Whitcombe Hill, 600m west of Stafford Farm
• Two round barrows at Down Wood
• Bowl barrow on Puddletown Heath, 400m north east of Duck Dairy House
• Group of barrows on the golf course, Came Down
• Henge Enclosure, Conquer Barrow and Barrow Cemetery
• Oval barrow and three bowl barrows 250m and 330m south of Whitcombe Barn
• Culliford Tree long barrow and group of round barrows
• Disc barrow 715m west of Bayard Farm
• Henge, Romano-British amphitheatre and Civil War fieldworks known collectively as Maumbury Rings
• Medieval settlement at West Ringstead
• The Clandon Barrow, 450m west of Clandon Farm
• Round barrow on Ridgeway Hill
• Bowl barrow 360m south west of Clandon Farm
• Four barrows on Moigns Down
• Group of round barrows on North Bincombe Hill, S of Came Wood
• Group of round barrows W of Ridgeway Hill
• Round barrow SW of Ashton Cottages
• Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battery (P3 Verne), 275m south-west of Fancy's Farm