A ‘V’-shaped feature of the coastline between Kimmeridge and Lulworth Cove, the Arishmel Gap is a deeply cut notch in the coastline, now strewn with rusting tanks and armoured vehicles used as targets for the nearby British Army gunnery ranges.

An Iron Age hill fort in the territory of the Durotriges. The site, on a dip slope of Cranborne Chase, is on the Kingston Lacy Estate in east Dorset.

Blue Pool is a flooded, disused clay pit three miles south of Wareham within the Furzebrook estate, a 25-acre park of heath woodland and gorse on the Isle of Purbeck. Dating back to the 17th century, Purbeck ball clay was dug from the pit and used to make fine ceramic products, such as smoking pipes, plates, teapots.

A massive hill figure 55 metres (180 feet) tall near the village of Cerne Abbas, the standing nude is cut into the turf and backfilled with chalk.

Twenty-nine kilometres long and in places 200 metres wide, Chesil Bank is one of only three major shingle beach structures in Britain. Identified geomorphologically as a barrier beach, its name is derived from the Old English ceosel or cisel, meaning ‘gravel’ or ‘shingle’.

Corfe Castle is an imposing hill-top fortification that dominates a gap in the Purbeck ridges on the route between Wareham and Swanage. Now little more than a monumental stone ruin, it dates to the 11th century and played a significant strategic role in the English Civil War.

The 18th-century Grange Arch, also known as Creech Folly, lies within the parish of Steeple and is situated on Ridgeway Hill, at 199 metres the second-highest point of the Purbeck Hills.

Kimmeridge Bay forms part of what is now termed the Jurassic Coast, and is renowned for its unique geology, comprising a bedrock of clay topped in places by Portland stone, overlain by layers of bituminous shale and dolomite, which form distinctive flat ledges within the bay that are exposed at low tide. Nash was fascinated by its unique geology and photographed its foreshore many times.

Lulworth Cove is a small and picturesque arc-shaped bay near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset. It is regarded as one of the world’s finest examples of the landform, and is close to the rock arch of Durdle Door and many unique geological features that make the site world renowned to geologists. In 2001 the coast was granted World Heritage Site status by UNESCO.

A vast, multi-ringed and steeply terraced Iron Age hill fort, Maiden Castle, near Dorchester, is one of the largest and, in terms of its design, one of the most complex hill forts in Europe.

“It happened that at the time Raymond Mortimer’s article was published I was living in Swanage, a seaside town in the Isle of Purbeck, on the Dorset coast, and whether it was due to the idea of not, I began to discover that Swanage was definitely, as they say, surrealist.” Paul Nash, ‘Swanage or Seaside Surrealism’, The Architectural Review LXXIX, April 1936, pp.151-154

Nash made several drawings and watercolours of unspecified landscapes throughout Dorset. Landscape, West Dorset resulted from his most prolific year in the country, 1935.

It was reproduced in the Dorset Shell Guide 1936 as plate 16.

A picturesque village of limestone cottages, farmhouses and a church built around a circular pond. Located on the cliffs west of Swanage it has striking views of the coast and the valleys leading to the sea-facing stone-ledges.