Poundbury has good public transport links locally and nationally via trains, buses, and coaches. Direct trains from Dorchester to London and Bath and beyond. It's and excellent location for access to beaches and all water sport activities, walking the fantastic Jurassic Coast, visiting the ancient cities of Exeter, Salisbury and Winchester, and the even older Iron Age sites that litter the surrounding countryside.
Dorchester was Thomas Hardy's hometown which he named Casterbridge, its characters and events became the source and inspiration of several of his greatest novels.