11 photos of 'hidden' Dorset - Can you identify them?

Here's a great test for you - 11 pictures of hidden Dorset.

We've got photos of parts of Weymouth, Portland, Dorchester, Bridport, West Bay and surrounding areas that rarely make a tourist snap.

Are you familiar with the area's quirky street signs, its lesser known streets and details on some of the area's beautiful features?

Scroll down to see the photos and guess their location. Both 10 and 11 are very hard, so hats off if you get the right answers!

The answers are at the bottom of the page.

1.) Elegant benches - perfect for a sit down in the sunshine - whereabouts?

2.) Street lamp standing tall - but where is it?

3.) This grand looking lion in a fountain is the mane attraction - but where is it?

4.) Shadow play on a wall in an historic town - where is the wall?

5.) A doom-laden street sign - but where would you find it?

6. ) The site of this church was once occupied by a Roman cemetery

7.) One way only down this street, but which is it and in which town?

8.) Tithe barn in rural Dorset location, but where?

9.) Apartments with a view are quay for most flat dwellers, but where are they?

10.) Millstone not around a neck but in a wall - where? 

11.) Horse sculpture, fitting for its surrounds, but where?

Here are the answers to the photo locations in our hidden Dorset challenge. How many did you get right? 

1.) Benches in the Borough Gardens, Dorchester

2.) Lamp post in South Walks, Dorchester ​

3.) Fountain in the Borough Gardens, Dorchester 

4.) Bowling Alley Walk, Dorchester

5.) Street sign on the wall of an alley in Chiswell, Portland

6.) St George's Church, Fordington

7.) Bath Street, Weymouth

8.) The Tithe Barn, Abbotsbury

9.) Quay West apartments in West Bay

10.) Millstone in a wall of the former rear entrance to Bonfields & Son garage in Bridport

11.) Horse sculpture, Whitcombe Stables

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