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    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...
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  • Purbeck Marble is a fossiliferous limestone found in the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in south-east Dorset, England. It is a variety of Purbeck stone...
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    Wessex Formation (category Lower Cretaceous Series of Europe)
    the Isle of Purbeck and the Isle of Wight. While the Purbeck sections are largely barren of vertebrate remains, the Isle of Wight sections are well known...
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    Solent. The ridge of steeply dipping chalk that forms the Purbeck Hills continues further east on the Isle of Wight. The height of the chalk ridge and...
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    Purbeck was a local government district in Dorset, England. The district was named after the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula that forms a large proportion...
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  • Purbeck Group, found on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset in southern England. The best known variety of this stone is Purbeck Marble. The stone has been quarried...
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    environment of the then subtropical Wareham Basin. It is thus found today on the northern half of the Isle of Purbeck, to the north of the Purbeck Hills, and...
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  • Purbeck may refer to: Elizabeth Purbeck and Jane Purbeck, 18th century British novelists Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula in the English county of Dorset Purbeck...
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    known as the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset where the strata are exposed in the cliffs west of Swanage. The Purbeck Group is famous for its fossils of reptiles...
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    forming the basin of Poole Harbour (Tertiary) and the Isle of Purbeck (Cretaceous) respectively. The chalky ridges of Wight and Purbeck were a single formation...
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    Barn Old Harry Rocks Purbeck Hills Isle of Purbeck Geology of Dorset Geology of the United Kingdom List of fossil sites List of Dorset beaches South West...
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    Swanage (category Isle of Purbeck)
    south east of Dorset, England. It is at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck and one of its two towns, approximately 6+1⁄4 miles (10 km) south of Poole and...
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  • since all of her television and film credits, until her divorce and after, have been as Thelma Barlow. In 2003, Barlow moved to the Isle of Purbeck. Barlow...
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    Old Harry Rocks (category Isle of Purbeck)
    located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England. They mark the most eastern point of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World...
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    Guy Ritchie, James Mangold, and Rob Letterman. Mathieson was born on Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England. Beginning his career in the British film industry...
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  • of Elmley (part of Sheppey) Isle of Ely Isle of Grain Isle of Harty (part of Sheppey) Isle of Oxney Isle of Portland Isle of Purbeck Kelham Island Ramsey...
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    Corfe Castle (village) (category Isle of Purbeck)
    the gap and the village. The civil parish of Corfe Castle stretches across the width of the Isle of Purbeck, with coasts facing both the English Channel...
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    Tyneham (category Isle of Purbeck)
    now in the parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in the Dorset district, in the south of Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck. In 2001 the civil...
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    Church of St James is the parish church for the village of Kingston, located on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. The church is a notable example of the Gothic...
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  • the western parts of the Isle of Purbeck stretching from Bere Regis in the north to West Lulworth in the south. "West Purbeck (Ward, United Kingdom) -...
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    River Frome, Dorset (category Isle of Purbeck)
    estuary, Poole Harbour. Prior to the end of the last ice age, the Purbeck Hills were continuous with the Isle of Wight, and the Frome would have continued...
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    Swanage Railway (category Isle of Purbeck)
    and ruins of Corfe Castle. In 2023, regular trains ran through from Wareham (with National Rail connections) to Swanage. The Isle of Purbeck had extensive...
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  • Gerhardodon (category Early Cretaceous mammals of Europe)
    Berriasian (Lower Cretaceous) strata of Durlston Bay in Dorset, England. It is a multituberculate mammal from the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. This formation is sometimes...
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  • Hazel Brook or Hen, a stream in Bristol, England Hen Cliff, on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England HEN, station code for Hendon railway station, England...
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    Studland (category Isle of Purbeck)
    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, over a steep chalk...
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    the Isle of Purbeck and Poole Harbour, and the vales and rolling hills in the west of the county. Around 75,000 people live within the boundaries of the...
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    on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. It borders Studland Bay on the south side of Poole Harbour, between the settlements of Swanage...
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    Worbarrow Bay (category Isle of Purbeck)
    bay just to the east of Lulworth Cove on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England. Worbarrow Bay is located about six kilometres south of Wareham and about 16...
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    Brownsea Island (category Isle of Purbeck)
    Poole Harbour and the Isle of Purbeck. The island was the location of an experimental camp in 1907 that led to the formation of the Scout movement the...
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  • western parts of the Isle of Purbeck outside Swanage. It includes the villages of Acton, Corfe Castle, Kimmeridge and Studland. "South East Purbeck (Ward, United...
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