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Looking towards Corfe Castle from Downshey (above Harman's Cross)
This beautful and still much isolated peninsula stretches south-westwards from the sandy shores of
Poole Harbour and Studland Bay
for some 24 kilometres (14 miles) to the 144 metre (400 foot) high limestone cliffs of
St Aldhelm's or St Alban's Head. From the coast, the peninsula is about 13 kilometres (8 miles)
wide. Running west to east of the peninsula is a range of chalk downs which meet the sea as the
near vertical cliffs to the north of Swanage. To the south, the limestone rises sheer from the
waves and is still quarried to produce the famous
Purbeck 'Marble' -
not a true marble, but limestone patterned by many fossil shells.
In saxon and medieval times, when
Wareham was the chief port of
Poole Harbour,
marshes stretched high up the valley of it's river Frome and gave much more justification to the prefix
'Isle' which the peninsula still bears despite being quite firmly
attached to the mainland of
Dorset.
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| | | | OTHER PLACES | | Kimmeridge Bay
Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England
The nodding donkey pulls oil from the fossiliferous shales of the
shallow bay which became the first marine nature reserve on the British
Coast | 1.2 km SE | | Grange Heath
Dorset, England | 4 km N | | Grange
Heath
Dorset, England | 4 km N | | Mupe Rocks
Dorset,
England
The series of diminishing stacks pointing eastwards make a
spectacular sight | 5.5 km SW | | Corfe
Castle
Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England
Slighted by the Roundheads after the Civil War, the remains of the huge castle
still dominate the area | 6.4 km NE | | St Aldhelms Chapel
St
Aldhelms Head, Isle Of Purbeck, Dorset, England | 7.5 km SE | | | | | Public Houses | | Square & Compass
Worth Matravers, Dorset BH19 3LF | | 7.8 km SW | | The King`s Arms
27 High St, Langton Matravers, Dorset BH19 3HA | | 9.8 km SW | | The Ship Inn
Langton Matravers, Dorset BH19 3EU | | 10.2 km SW | | Red Lion Hotel
th Newburgh, Dorset DT2 8LE | | 10.7 km NE | | Seven Stars Inn
n, Dorset DT2 8RL | | 11.1 km NE | | The Royal Oak
417 High St, Herston, Dorset BH19 2NR | | 11.4 km SW | | Sailors Return
n Herring, Dorset DT2 8DN | | 11.4 km NE | | The Globe Inn
3 Bell St, Swanage, Dorset BH19 2RY | | 11.7 km SW |
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Geology of the Country Around Weymouth, Swanage, Corfe and Lulworth
by WJ Arkell, 1947
The Kings England Dorset
by Arthur Mee (1967), ed. E T Long, publisher Hodder and Stoughton, 1971, ISBN0340000791
Recommend a Book for this Page
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