South Street, Dorchester's main shopping street, starts with an impressive row of 18C red brick façades. No 10, where the Mayor of Casterbridge lived in the novel of the same name, now a bank, is a distinguished, three-storey, late 18C house.

The distant south gate leads to De Vaux College and St Nicholas' hospital now closed.

In this village on the Isle of Wight, a pretty stone manor dates back to 1639. The panelling in the hallway is the most notable element of period decoration. The floors house a Museum of Childhood (collection of old toys and dolls). St George's Church, part romanesque, part Early English, houses a Radio Museum.

Housed in East Cliff Hall, the museum is decorated in High Victorian taste (numerous ornaments, decorative patterns, polychromes, etc.): inlaid furniture, painted ceilings, decorative windows and wallpaper. The collection includes a number of paintings (William Frith, Birket-Foster, etc.), English china, gold and silver plate and objets d'art from Egypt, Germany and the Orient.