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2-night Jurassic Coast tour: Guided fossil hunt & Etches Museum

By GeoCultura
Free cancellation available
Price is €1,089 per adult
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Overview

Enjoy a 2 day expert led tour discovering the many stories of the dramatic Jurassic Coast, a geological wonder that for centuries has inspired fossil hunters, authors, artists, film makers and adventurers.

Highlights include:

● 2-night guided small group tour of the Jurassic Coast, England’s only natural UNESCO world heritage site.

● Explore Dorset’s key landmarks of Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove and your expert guide will explain the fascinating geology of these impressive landforms and rock formations.

● Visit the Etches Collection in Kimmeridge to see the newly-displayed fossilised giant pliosaur skull, and hear the storey of its very local discovery, and its national importance.

● Learn about the Victorian pioneering fossil-hunter, Mary Anning, and her achievements.

Choose tour dates from:
20th - 22nd April 2026
1st - 3rd June 2026
10th - 12th October 2026

Activity location

  • Mortons Manor
    • 45 East Street
    • BH20 5EE, Corfe Castle, England, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Mortons Manor
    • 45 East Street
    • BH20 5EE, Corfe Castle, England, United Kingdom

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2 night stay: 2 adults sharing
  • Activity duration is 3 days3d
    3d
  • English

Double room for two people: Double room for two people sharing with own bathroom
Duration: 2 days: 2-day tour, including two night stay at Mortons Manor Hotel, Corfe Castle village, including breakfast
Breakfast and lunch: Breakfast - two morning at Mortons Manor
Lunch on day 2 only

Language options: English
Starting time: 18:00
Price details
€1,088.83 x 1 Adult€1,088.83
Total
Price is €1,088.83
Until Tue, 14 Apr
2 night stay: Solo Traveller
  • Activity duration is 3 days3d
    3d
  • English

Double room for one person: Double room for one person with own bathroom
Duration: 2 days: 2-day tour, including two night stay at Mortons Manor Hotel, Corfe Castle village, including breakfast
Breakfast and lunch: Breakfast - two mornings, at Mortons Manor
Lunch on day 2 only

Language options: English
Starting time: 18:00
Price details
€1,359.32 x 1 Adult€1,359.32
Total
Price is €1,359.32
Until Tue, 14 Apr

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    Tour guide
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Air-conditioned vehicle from the start and end of the tour
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Lunch
  • What's includedWhat's included
    2 night stay at Mortons Manor Hotel based on 2 people sharing a room
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Admission fee for Corfe Castle and The Etches Collection Museums included
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Breakfast at Mortons Manor Hotel is included.
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Evening meals not included
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Lyme Regis Museum entry fee not included
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Lunch in Lyme Regis not included

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

Activity itinerary

Day 1: Jurassic Coast tour arrival

  • 1 stop
  • Meals: Not included
  • Accommodation: Mortons Manor Hotel Tour price includes 2-nights bed & breakfast 2 people sharing room. Supplement for singles.

Mortons Manor

  • 1d
  • Admission ticket included
Check in to the hotel the evening before the tour starts for 2 night stay. Upon arrival guests will be greeted with a welcome drink in the hotel and receive introductions to the itinerary with your tour guide and fellow travellers. Free evening, with options to dine at the hotel or choose one the pubs in the village

Day 2: Lyme Regis, fossil-hunting activities and Mary Anning storey

  • 2 stops
  • Meals: breakfast
  • Accommodation: 2-night stay at Mortons Manor, Corfe Village, includes breakfast only

Lyme Regis

  • 3h
Exclusive morning fossil hunt on the beach with Jonathan Evans, geologist and Trustee of Lyme Regis Museum and discussion with your expert guide on the life of Mary Anning, the extraordinary Victorian fossil collector.

Lyme Regis

  • 2h
Meet up again early afternoon for a guided walk, along the coast to see Mary Anning’s statue and to include the Cobb, the Lyme Regis Harbour Wall and famous setting of the film, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, with Meryl Streep and, more recently, in the Netflix film, Persuasion. Option to visit Lyme Regis museum, entry fee not included.

Day 3: Corfe Castle, Kingston Church, Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove

  • 5 stops
  • Meals: breakfast, lunch
  • Accommodation: Not included

Corfe Castle

  • 1h 30m
Take a private guided walk around Corfe Castle with our local expert. Built by William the Conqueror, it was one of the first castles in England to be built from stone. It is positioned to defend one of the only gaps in the steep-sided Purbeck ridge which extends across Dorset.

Wareham

  • 1h 30m
Next stop is a short journey to visit Kingston Church, nicknamed of ‘the Cathedral of Purbeck’, which according to John Betjeman ‘gleams with Purbeck marble’.

The Square and Compass

  • 45m
  • Admission ticket included
Enjoy lunch at the ultra-traditional local pub, included in tour cost

Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door

  • 1h 30m
Lulworth Cove. This a wonderful geological masterpiece and striking horseshoe-shaped cove has been carved out of the cliffs. Durdle Door is a natural limestone arch made of rocks some 140 million years old. Stair Hole is where the rock layers are folded into a remarkable structure called the ‘Lulworth Crumple’.

The Etches Collection, Museum of Jurassic Marine Life

  • 1h 30m
  • Admission ticket included
We'll finish off with a visit to the Etches Collection museum, which houses the spectacular fossil skull of a pliosaur, carefully extracted from the cliffs above Kimmeridge Bay in 2023. Return to Mortons Manor, end of tour.

Location

Activity location

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    Mortons Manor
    • 45 East Street
    • BH20 5EE, Corfe Castle, England, United Kingdom

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Mortons Manor
    • 45 East Street
    • BH20 5EE, Corfe Castle, England, United Kingdom

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