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Isle of Purbeck

This category leads to websites for localites on the penisula in the former Purbeck District, which since April 2019: has been part of the unitary authority of Dorset Council.
The Isle of Purbeck is a peninsula south of Poole Harbour.
The major holiday resort is Swanage at the south east tip, with Peveril Point and Durlston Head projecting eastwards: in to the English Channel, and on a clear day the Isle or Wight can be seen 20 miles directly east.
Along the south coast, the next parish is Worth Matravers which has the most southern point at St Aldhem's Head.
The next village to the west is Kingston which is in the parish of Corfe Castle.
The village of Corfe Castle is on the A351 road, connecting Swanage with Dorset to the east.
The parish of Corfe Castle stretches to tidal creeks into the south shore of Poole Harbour.
Here the parish to the east is Studland, which includes the Studland and Godlingston Heath National Nature Reserve, as well as: "Little Sea" and marshy Studland Heath that has its own penisula projecting north east, where South Haven Point makes; a narrow entrance for boats into Poole Harbour. (In season a ferry connects with Sandbanks, a tied island from Poole.)
Arne is hamlet north west of Corfe Castle, and Arne parish is at the mouth of the River Frome which flows south of Wareham from the west.
Within Arne parish, Stoborough and Stoborough Green are south of Wareham.
South of Stoborough Green, the next parish, Church Knowles, is land locked.
Kimmeridge separates Church Knowles from south coast, west of Kingston.
North of Kimmeridge, the Purbeck Hills rise to almost 200 metres, on a steep-sided ridge, from the castle remains: at Corfe Castle village westwards through Steeple with Tyneham parish, ending abruptly in a 180 metre cliff; at Worbarrow Bay west of the hamlet of Tyneham.
The ridge continues westwards from East Ludworth to West Ludworth with another steep cliff above Mupe Bay,: exposing fossils in the cliff face to the elements of the sea.
This part of the coastline is represented by the Ludworth Cove category.
The B3071 serves Ludworth Cove, from the north, where at Wool the A352 from East Knighton directly west,: leads to Warehem, where the A352 joins the A351 from Sanford, and Lytchett Minster west of Poole.