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Budleigh's Fairlynch Museum display on the geology of the local area, developed with sponsorship from the Heritage Lotery Fund and Devon and Dorset County Council.
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Otterton church demonstrates a wonderful array of local and less than local stone. The tower, which is considerably older than the rest of the building, is constructed from local Triassic aged sandstone. The gravestones are mostly Beer Stone. The main building is Ashburton limestone quarried from the southern edge of D...
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The harbour at West Bay dates back some 300 years and was built around the River Brit but has changed greatly over the years. The new harbour breakwaters were completed in 2005 and the western arm was rebuilt entirely. The harbour is important for fishing, diving and recreation. The cliffs beyond West Bay form part of...
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The geology gallery explores the rich local fossils and the extraordinary history of science behind their early discovery and study. Mary Anning and the Anning family of Lyme Regis, plays a central part of this story.
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The classic view of the Purbeck coast, used by W.J. Arkell on the front cover of his famous memoir ‘The Geology of the Country around Weymouth, Swanage, Corfe and Lulworth’. The rocks here straddle the Jurassic Cretaceous boundary. The boundary is somewhere in the beach, between the strikingly banded Purbeck Beds ...
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The top of Gad Cliff offers one of the most spectacular views along the Dorset and East Devon coast World Heritage Site (the Jurassic Coast). Here the rocks have been folded into a huge ‘S’ shaped kink as the result of earth movements about 15 million years ago. In the foreground, Kimmeridge Clay together with Port...
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Black Ven is one of the most spectacular coastal landslides in Europe. Beyond, lies the Spittles, a series of fields that lie on an ancient landslide surface just waiting to be ‘unzipped’ by coastal erosion. The town of Lyme Regis is protected from the sea by its famous harbour, the Cobb and a new coast defence sch...
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The town on a busy Easter bank holiday weekend! Lyme is known as the ‘Pearl of Dorset’ and is rich in history. This view is from the Cobb, Lyme’s famous curvy harbour and this spot is where Meryl Streep stood during a storm in one of the early scenes from the film, ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’, adopte...
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One of the all time classic views of the Dorset coast and countryside with Chesil Beach, the Fleet Lagoon, Abbotsbury, the Isle of Portland and the Weymouth anticline, a huge fold in the rocks that makes this place what it is.
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The spectacular sandstone cliffs at West Bay form part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. The rocks are 180 million years old and formed in a shallow sea. Chesil beach runs from here all the way to Portland, 28km to the east and is one of the finest barrier beaches in the world. The harbour at West Bay dates...
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