Swanage (/ˈswɒnɪdʒ/) 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...
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The Swanage Railway is a railway branch line from near Wareham, Dorset to Swanage, Dorset, England, opened in 1885 and now operated as a heritage railway...
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The Swanage Railway is a railway branch line in Dorset, England, opened in 1885 and now operated as a heritage railway. The locomotive can haul trains...
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Swanage is an electoral ward in Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 2 councillors to Dorset Council. The Swanage ward contains the town of Swanage...
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Swanage Lifeboat Station is a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) station located on Peveril Point in the town of Swanage in Dorset, England. It...
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The Swanage Open Lawn Tennis Championships or simply the Swanage Open was men's grass court tournament founded in 1883 as the Swanage LTC Tournament....
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Sandbanks Ferry (redirect from Bournemouth-Swanage Motor Road and Ferry Act 1956)
connects the coastal parts of the towns of Bournemouth and Poole with Swanage and the Isle of Purbeck. This avoids a 25-mile journey by road on a return...
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Swanage Pier is a Victorian pier which extends into the southern end of Swanage Bay near the town of Swanage, in the south-east of Dorset. It was built...
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St Mary's Church is a parish church in Swanage, Dorset. It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The church is in the Archdeaconry of Dorset, in the Diocese...
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The Swanage Pier Tramway was a narrow gauge tramway in the port town of Swanage, in the English county of Dorset. It opened about 1858 and closed in the...
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1°57′50″W / 50.620°N 1.964°W / 50.620; -1.964 Swanage Grammar School was a former school in Swanage, Dorset, England, established in 1929 (95 years...
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Trevor Chadwick (category People from Swanage)
Nigeria for 18 months. He became a Latin teacher at his family's school in Swanage, Dorset and married in 1931. He was regarded as kind and considerate of...
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Studland (redirect from New Swanage to Studland Bay - Dorset and East Devon Coast)
England. The village is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the town of Swanage, over a steep chalk ridge, and 3 miles (4.8 km) south of the South East...
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from Wareham to Swanage, the line and station were closed by British Rail in 1972. It has since reopened as a station on the Swanage Railway, a heritage...
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Disappearance of Gaia Pope (category People from Swanage)
11 days after her disappearance. Gaia Pope was born on 2 July 1998 in Swanage, Dorset to Richard Sutherland and Kim Pope. She had a twin sister, Maya...
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The Prince Albert Memorial is a memorial in Swanage, Dorset in the form of a stone obelisk to Prince Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria, who died in...
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miles (6.4 km) north-northwest of Swanage. Both the main A351 road from Lytchett Minster to Swanage and the Swanage Railway thread their way through the...
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from Orcombe Point near Exmouth in East Devon to Old Harry Rocks near Swanage in East Dorset, a distance of 96 miles (154 km). Inscribed on the World...
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restores, maintains and runs steam locomotives. It is based at Herston, Swanage, Dorset. 31178 SECR P class; sold to the Bluebell Railway 35022 Holland-America...
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Trains installed live departure boards for Swanage Railway heritage services at Corfe Castle and Swanage stations. The data presented on Realtime Trains...
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Swanage Museum & Heritage Centre is a local history museum and family history centre in Swanage, Dorset. The museum was established in 1976; it merged...
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District of Purbeck wards of Bere Regis, Castle, Langton, St Martin, Swanage North, Swanage South, Wareham, West Purbeck, Winfrith, and Wool, and the District...
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July 2024. Retrieved 17 July 2024. "Labour MP to represent Swanage at Westminster". Swanage News. 6 July 2024. Retrieved 10 July 2024. Courea, Eleni (9...
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Swanage Town Hall is a municipal building on Swanage High Street in Dorset. Constructed by the local building contractor George Burt in 1882–83, it reused...
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The Recreation Ground is a public park in Swanage, Dorset. It was acquired prior to WWI, but only properly established in the 1920s. The land which is...
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Swanage Town & Herston Football Club is a football club based in Swanage, Dorset, England. The club is affiliated to the Dorset County Football Association...
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The limestone and chalk are in closer proximity at Durdle Door than at Swanage, 10 miles (16 km) to the east, where the distance is over 2 miles (3 km)...
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the branch line to Swanage from 1885 until 1972, when the branch closed. The branch line to Swanage is now the preserved Swanage Railway, a steam locomotive...
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Paul Nash (artist) (section Swanage)
would eventually include Ypres, Dymchurch, the Romney Marshes, Avebury and Swanage, that would inspire Nash in his landscape paintings throughout his life...
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station on the Swanage Railway, a heritage railway that currently operates from Swanage to Norden (and occasionally to Wareham ). The Swanage Railway follows...
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