Gorcombe Xtreme Sports

A driver in a helmet steers a blue off-road buggy round a bend on a gravel track, throwing up dust — Photo: Gorcombe Xtreme Sports

Gorcombe Xtreme Sports is an activity centre offering quad biking, clay shooting, rage karting, paintballing, archery and crazy footgolf, alongside challenge courses with obstacles such as monkey bars and swinging ropes. Visitors can also use an indoor swimming pool, walk through a sunflower field, pick pumpkins and meet the site's goats, with a cafe on site.

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6 to 14 November
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Lyme Regis Beaches

Sherborne Castle and Gardens

Lyme Regis Marine Aquarium

Coming up

Bridport Literary Festival

Spatula Carving with Adam Hawker

Jayne Burton: Cyanotype Printing