u/DisplayOne345

Hello all. I am planning a trip to England for next year and want to stay in just one location, I don't like packing up and moving from place to place, so I'd rather be based in one area. I'll be with my 13 year old son. I plan to rent a car so I can get to places outside of London I want to visit, but will want to use trains/buses for trips into and around London. Monkey World in Dorset is definitely a must visit as well as hoping to maybe go to a Bournemouth game, if they are playing home or somewhere between London/Bournemouth (if I can secure tickets). As I said, I will want to go into London a few days as well, but want to stay somewhere with some local things to do, walks, beautiful things to see/do so I'm looking for suggestions of towns/areas to maybe focus on to base our stay in. Any suggestions or ideas would be wonderful. Thank you so much!