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    West Bay, originally known as Bridport Harbour, is a small harbour settlement and resort on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England, sited at the...
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    REE-jiss) is a town in west Dorset, England, 25 miles (40 km) west of Dorchester and east of Exeter. Sometimes dubbed the "Pearl of Dorset", it lies by the...
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    Bridport (redirect from Bridport, Dorset)
    of coastline in Dorset and neighbouring east Devon. Chesil beach starts at Portland and ends at West Bay. The east pier of West Bay is at the east end...
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    Studland is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. The village is located about 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the town of Swanage...
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  • capital. West Bay, Dorset, formerly known as Bridport Harbour, approximately two miles from Bridport on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, England East Bay (disambiguation)...
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    West Bay railway station was the terminus of the Bridport Railway in western Dorset, England. In 1879, the Great Western Railway, who held the operating...
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    coast in Dorset, southern England. The area lies on the Jurassic Coast and is known for its natural environment and fossils. Ringstead Bay has a pebble...
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  • series, Reggie fakes suicide by leaving his clothes on a beach in West Bay, Dorset and running into the sea. Coincidentally, MP John Stonehouse faked...
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    Dorset (/ˈdɔːrsɪt/ DOR-sit; archaically: Dorsetshire /ˈdɔːrsɪt.ʃɪər, -ʃər/ DOR-sit-sheer, -⁠shər) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered...
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    is a hamlet and civil parish in north west Dorset, England, situated 3 miles (4.8 km) south of Sherborne. Dorset County Council estimate that the population...
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    Swanage (redirect from Swanage, Dorset)
    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 of its...
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    (used by the Lyme Bay West Marine Character Area) and Berry Head. The east of the bay is part of a World Heritage Site, the Dorset and East Devon Coast...
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  • seventeenth century cargo vessel were found to the west of the Outer Pollock Reef, off West Bay, Dorset, England in 2004. The site was designated under the...
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  • Broadchurch (category Television shows set in Dorset)
    team was criticised by the West Bay coastguards in June 2014 for filming too close to the edge of East Cliff at West Bay, Dorset. Severe weather and recent...
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  • in West Bay in Dorset, where the production used the Station Road Car Park for its production trailers and offices. A car park next to the West Bay Hotel...
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    the east of Worbarrow Bay and to the west of Hobarrow Bay on the south coast of the Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset, England. Brandy Bay is located about 1 kilometre...
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    Weymouth in south Dorset, England. It is approximately 3 kilometres (2 mi) north-east of Weymouth town centre and 2 kilometres (1 mi) west of the village...
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    (/ˈɡɪlɪŋəm/ GHIL-ing-əm) is a town and civil parish in the Blackmore Vale area of Dorset, England. It lies on the B3095 and B3081 roads, approximately four miles...
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    Durdle Door (redirect from The Bull, Dorset)
    Dor) is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England. It is privately owned by the Weld family, who own the Lulworth...
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    West Lulworth is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated on the English Channel beside Lulworth Cove. In the 2011 census...
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    Dorchester (/ˈdɔːrtʃɛstər/ DOR-ches-tər) is the county town of Dorset, England. It is situated between Poole and Bridport on the A35 trunk route. A historic...
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    Upton is a town in south-east Dorset, England. Upton is to the east of Holton Heath and Upton Heath, and to the north of the Poole suburb of Hamworthy...
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    St John's Church is a Church of England church in West Bay, Dorset, England. It was built in 1935–39 to the designs of William Henry Randoll Blacking and...
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  • Mark Hix (category People from Dorset)
    relocating to Dorset permanently after five of his restaurants were put into administration. Hix was born and raised in West Bay, Dorset. His parents divorced...
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    the 2013 Dorset set TV series Broadchurch, which was in part filmed in West Bay. Dorset-based brewery Sunny Republic created an ale named 'Dorset Cross'...
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    Narborough Hall, Norfolk. 2007 (2007): David Inshaw: West Bay Beatitudes. Sladers Yard, West Bay, Dorset. 2008 (2008): David Inshaw: Between Dreaming and...
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    Heritage Sites: the Dorset and East Devon Coast, known as the Jurassic Coast, was designated in 2001, and the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape...
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    The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway (S&DJR, also known as the S&D, S&DR or SDJR), was an English railway line jointly owned by the Midland Railway (MR)...
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    2°45′48″W / 50.7102°N 2.7634°W / 50.7102; -2.7634 The Pier Terrace in West Bay, Dorset, was designed by the English Arts and Crafts architect Edward Schroeder...
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    Kimmeridge Bay ( /ˈkɪmərɪdʒ/) is a bay on the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England, close to and southeast of the...
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