StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Dorset

Interesting holiday cottage, owned by the Landmark Trust. I want to stay there ! Taken in the evening from the road into Kimmeridge Bay. history - including details of the relocation - link at Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavell_Tower

Remains of the 2ft 6" gauge track for what was a tramway (probably horse-drawn) on the front at Swanage, running between a stone store and the old pier. In several places the restoration / updating of the route into a public walkway has used dark stone to represent the iron rails. But not here, the running and check rails at this crossover are iron. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swanage_Pier_Tramway

This is "Bramble Bus Bay" heading to Sandbanks, Poole from Shell Bay (Studland) Nominal capacity is 48 cars. history here www.sandbanksferry.co.uk/history.php or see Wikipedia here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbanks_Ferry

HSC Condor Liberation returning to Poole after passage from the Channel Islands. There was a slight hold up for the Sandbanks Ferry sailing. Liberation is classed as a stabilised monohull, but is often referred to as a high speed catamaran - actually she is a trimeran.

This siege engine - a traction trebuchet - is of a design that predates gunpowder. It forms part of the "living history" at Corfe Castle. more info ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trebuchet

The piles are all that remains of the old pier (used by the stone trade from about 1860) The Steamer Pier dates from 1895 and is still in use today for various purposes, including visits by PS Waverley and also a well known diving school (reputedly the oldest in the UK).

Tower on the curtain wall has been partially destroyed. This damage was part of the slighting ordered when the castle was captured (by treachery, after a long siege) in 1645 by Parliamentary forces. . [209 views on 21Feb2024 when added to HWW]

Spare chains for the Sandbanks ferry, not little links in this.

View of Corfe Castle on top of the hill, seen in the late afternoon light from the Church Knowle road.

Detail of the two holes (sea caves) in the Portland limestone at Stair Hole - which usually means the whole assemblage, note - there is a full height opening in the main ridge just to the right of this image. I remember as a student in that late 1970s having a wonderful - and educational - time climbing in and around Stair Hole.

Looking eastwards from very close to Durdle Door, across Man o'War Bay and Rocks. The Man O'War Rocks are remnants of Portland / Purbeck limestone similar to Durdle Door. The band of softer Wealden clays are much narrower here, a few tens of yards compared to the just over two miles separation at Swanage, ten miles to the east.

The slightly less often imaged example of the "Lulworth Crumple" - the steeply and intensely folded Portland and Purbeck group of limestone(s). As a student I climbed in and around Stair Hole, a fascinating place - it shows what Lulworth Cove probably looked like 100,000 years ago.

Looking eastward across the cove. This place is a standard example of the differential erosion rates in rocks of varying strength / hardness. There is an interpretation board which explains this for the non-geologist visitor.

Nearly high tide. I remember visiting here in the late 1970s, but at low tide. I had a good plodge in some of the rock pools, looking at the bedding / strata. One thing that really stuck in my mind was the oily sheen to the water, I can also recall a "nodding donkey" oil wellhead - it was on the far side of the bay, well to the left of the white structure in the centre of this image [see NOTE]. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimmeridge_Oil_Field

Looking straight westwards into the setting sun, over the outer harbour at Poole. Not far from the chain ferry on the Shell Bay side..

Rock arch produced by marine erosion in the Portland limestone. The bay is cut into the much softer Wealden clay beds.