Swyre Head, Lulworth is a hill and sea cliff which lies on the
Jurassic Coast
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between
Bat's Head
Bat's Head is a chalk headland on the Dorset coast in southern England
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to the west and
Durdle Door
Durdle Door (sometimes written Durdle Dor) is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England.West, I.W., 2003.Durdle Door; Geology of the Dorset Coast. Southampton University, UK. Version H.07.09.03. It is priva ...
to the east, close to
Lulworth
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(further to the east) in
Dorset
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,
England
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. It is located approximately east of
Weymouth and west 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 civi ...
.
Swyre Head, Lulworth, lies only about west of
another Swyre Head, which is located close to the village of
Kingston
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and which is the highest point on the peninsula known as 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 ...
.
The cliffs of Swyre Head, Lulworth, are of
chalk
Chalk is a soft, white, porous, sedimentary carbonate rock. It is a form of limestone composed of the mineral calcite and originally formed deep under the sea by the compression of microscopic plankton that had settled to the sea floor. Cha ...
and are steep, with grassland and a footpath above. The footpath runs close to the cliff edge and is steeply undulating. Despite the steepness, it is popular for walks and the scenery is spectacular.
Photo from Swyre Head and Durdle Door from Bat's Head
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Between Swyre Head and the natural rock arch of Durdle Door is a small dry valley
A dry valley may develop on many kinds of permeable rock, such as limestone and chalk, or sandy terrains that do not regularly sustain surface water flow. Such valleys do not hold surface water because it sinks into the permeable bedrock.
There ...
known as Scratchy Bottom
Scratchy Bottom (or Scratchy's Bottom) is a clifftop valley between Durdle Door and Bat's Head in Dorset, England. A dry valley in the chalk, it is surrounded by farmland at its sides and landward end, with cliffs at the seaward end.
The na ...
.
References
Cliffs of England
Headlands of Dorset
Jurassic Coast
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