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In June each year the gardens host the Swanage Fish Festival. [10] An episode of BBC's Songs of Praise was filmed in the gardens in 2021. [11] Other music and theatre performances take place in the gardens. [12] The open air theatre group, SISATA, started with a week's run in the gardens in 2012. [13]
View from the clifftop. Kimmeridge Ledges (/ ˈ k ɪ m ə r ɪ dʒ /) is a set of Kimmeridge clay ledges stretching out in to the sea on the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England.They are located to the southeast of Kimmeridge Bay and south of the villages of Kimmeridge, on the Smedmore Estate.
Swanage Bay Simplified geology map of the Swanage area. Swanage faces to the east Swanage Bay in Dorset on the south coast of England. The bay is at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck, approximately 6 miles (10 km) south of Poole and 25 miles (40 km) east of Dorchester. The northern headland of the bay is formed of chalk, the southern of ...
The Great Globe at Swanage is one of the largest stone spheres in the world and stands at Durlston Castle within Durlston Country Park, a 113-hectare (280-acre) country park and nature reserve. [1] It is constructed of Portland stone, weighs about 40 tonnes and is 3 metres (10 ft) in diameter. [2] The Great Globe with Durlston Castle in the rear
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 ...
Tilly Whim Caves seen from the sea A walker points to the old 'tourist' entrance to the caves. Tilly Whim Caves consists of three stone quarries in Durlston Country Park, 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Swanage, on the Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset, southern England.
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