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Swanage is accessible by main road either through Wareham and its bypass or via the Sandbanks Ferry which provides a shorter route to Bournemouth. There is a minor road connecting Swanage to East Lulworth via Corfe Castle but this passes through a military firing range and is closed during firing exercises. The main bus services are provided by ...
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 materials salvaged from demolition works in London. The façade was rescued from London's 17th-century Mercers' Hall and the external clock is dated to 1826. It was not universally welcomed ...
Swanage, the main town and resort of Purbeck, with the Purbeck Hills in the background. Other places of note are: Swanage, at the eastern end of the peninsula, is a seaside resort. At one time it was linked by a branch railway line from Wareham; this was closed in 1972, but has now partially reopened as the Swanage Railway, a heritage railway.
Langton Matravers (/ m ə ˈ t r æ v ər z /) is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset in the south of England.It is situated about 2 miles (3.2 km) west of Swanage town centre and 5 miles (8 km) south-east of Corfe Castle.
Corfe Castle railway station lies to the east of East Street, adjacent to the village centre. Originally the only intermediate station on the London and South Western Railway 's branch line from Wareham to Swanage, the station is now a stop on the Swanage Railway , a steam locomotive operated heritage railway .
Between St Alban's Head and the resort of Swanage is Durlston Country Park nature reserve; from Worth Matravers to Swanage the coast path follows the route of the Priest's Way. [71] North of Swanage is the chalk Ballard Down , the eastern tip of which has been eroded to form Old Harry Rocks – a series of stacks , arches and caves jutting into ...
The Priest's Way then follows the route of two streets, Priests Way and Priests Road (both named after the Priest’s Way). St Mary's Church, Swanage, a 19th and early-20th century reconstruction of the mediaeval chapel of ease (by then the parish church); the tower is the only remaining mediaeval part of the church.
Harman's Cross is the location of Harman's Cross railway station, one of the intermediate stations on the Swanage Railway, a steam locomotive operated heritage railway. The railway links the tourist centres of Corfe Castle and Swanage with each other, and with a Park and Ride site at Norden station just to the north of Corfe Castle. [1]