Geography of Dorset Channel. It stretches from Lyme Regis in the west to Highcliffe in the east. The main settlements on the coastline are, from west to east, Lyme Regis, Weymouth, Swanage, Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch, although the majority of the coastline is not covered by urban development. The Dorset coastline contains a great variety of coastal landforms, including cliffs, bays, headlands, a large natural harbour and a barrier beach. Almost the entire length of the Dorset coast forms the major part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, designated in 2001. This coast is notable for the variety in its geological structure
Dorset East and Hampshire West (European Parliament constituency) and South Dorset. The constituency replaced most of Wessex and parts of Hampshire West. It was itself replaced by much of Dorset and East Devon and parts of Itchen, Test and Avon in 1994. These seats became part of the much larger South West England and South East England constituencies in 1999. ! style="background-color: " | Dorset East and Hampshire West (European Parliament constituency) Dorset East and Hampshire West was a European Parliament constituency covering most of Dorset and parts of western Hampshire in England. Prior to its uniform adoption of proportional representation in 1999, the United Kingdom used first-past-the-post