Durlston Bay (also known as Durdlestone Bay)
is a small bay next to a country park of the same name, just south of the resort of
Swanage
Swanage () is a coastal town and civil parish in the south east of Dorset, England. It is at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck and one of its two towns, approximately south of Poole and east of Dorchester. In the 2011 census the civil ...
, on the
Isle of Purbeck
The Isle of Purbeck is a peninsula in Dorset, England. It is bordered by water on three sides: the English Channel to the south and east, where steep cliffs fall to the sea; and by the marshy lands of the River Frome and Poole Harbour to the n ...
in
Dorset
Dorset ( ; archaically: Dorsetshire , ) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the unitary authority areas of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole and Dorset (unitary authority), Dors ...
,
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
. It has been a renowned site for Lower Cretaceous fossils since the initial discovery of fragments there by
Samuel Beckles
Samuel Husbands Beckles (12 April 1814, in Barbados – 4 September 1890, in Hastings) was a Bajan/English 19th-century lawyer, turned dinosaur hunter, who collected remains in Sussex and the Isle of Wight. In 1854 he described bird-like trackw ...
in the 1850s.
Durlston Bay page on the Jurassic Coast website
See also
* List of Dorset beaches
This is a list of notable beaches in the United Kingdom.
England
* Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon
* Biggar, Cumbria
* Blackpool, Lancashire
* Blackpool Sands, Devon
* Bournemouth, Dorset
* Brean, Somerset
* Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire
* B ...
References
External links
Durlston Bay; Introduction and Upper Purbeck: Geology of the Wessex Coast
by I. M. West, 2005.
Isle of Purbeck
Bays of Dorset
Beaches of Dorset
Jurassic Coast
Swanage
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