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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.
Please suggest websites here only if there is no appropriate locality category in Dorset.
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