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 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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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the Isle of Purbeck in the county of Dorset in southern England. Kingston is situated about two miles south of Corfe Castle and five miles west of Swanage...
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Corfe Castle (category Isle of Purbeck)
fortification standing above the village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset. Built by William the Conqueror...
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Chapman's Pool (category Articles using infobox body of water without alt)
cove to the west of Worth Matravers on the Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset, England. The rocks that form the cove are the upper parts of the Kimmeridge Clay...
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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 preceded the publication of Scouting for Boys and...
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Dorset National Landscape (redirect from Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty)
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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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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Nicholas Elliott (category Foreign recipients of the Legion of Merit)
where Nicholas was sent after Durnford School, a prep school on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. After leaving Trinity College, Cambridge, Elliott was offered...
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Winspit (category Isle of Purbeck)
the cliffs near Worth Matravers in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England. To the west and east are the hills of West Man and East Man. Until around 1940...
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Dancing Ledge (category Isle of Purbeck)
part of the Jurassic Coast near Langton Matravers in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. Dancing Ledge is a flat area of rock at the base of a small...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Wight-Bray Monocline. The Purbeck Hills run east–west through the small broad peninsula known as the Isle of Purbeck. The resistant beds of chalk and limestone...
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Fossil Forest, Dorset (category Isle of Portland)
Forest is the remains of an ancient submerged forest from Jurassic times, located to the east of Lulworth Cove on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England...
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