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The village of West Bexington provides access to the Chesil Beach. The West Bexington nature reserve is one of the Dorset Wildlife Trust's few coastal reserves. It is internationally important because of the rare vegetated shingle habitat that thrives here (Rock Samphire, Sea Beet, Sea Campion, Sea Kale, Tree Mallow, Tufted Vetch, Wild Carrot, Wild Parsnip, Woody Nightshade, Yellow Horned ...
The species farmed is the Pacific oyster, rather than the local oyster, and the farm racks are always visible at low tide. [ 12 ] At Seabarn, a 68-metre-high (223 ft) hill located in the mid-Fleet, between Butterstreet Cove and Herbury , is a disused control tower and landing pad for the navy helicopter firing range in Lyme Bay.
During Saxon and Norman times the pans were one of two places for the thriving salt production industry on Portland. The other was the tidal lagoon known as The Mere, which was situated at the north of the island. The two pans at East Weares were formed by the digging of Kimmeridge clay. [4]
Puncknowle (/ ˈ p ʌ n əl / PUN-əl) is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southwest England, situated on the southern slopes of the Bride Valley approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) east of Bridport and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Chesil Beach on the Jurassic Coast.
View southeast at Kimmeridge Bay with Clavell Tower in the background. Kimmeridge Bay (/ ˈ k ɪ m ə r ɪ dʒ /) is a bay on the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England, close to and southeast of the village of Kimmeridge, on the Smedmore Estate. [1]
Weymouth Beach — one of the beaches that border Weymouth Bay.. Weymouth Bay is a sheltered bay on the south coast of England, in Dorset.It is protected from erosion by Chesil Beach and the Isle of Portland, and includes several beaches, notably Weymouth Beach, a gently curving arc of golden sand which stretches from the resort of Weymouth.
A pre-war wooden beach chalet at West Bexington, Dorset sold at auction for £216,000 in 2006, [2] and a beach hut on Mudeford Spit sold for £170,000 in 2012, where prices have risen above £270,000 by 2017. [3] However these were exceptional as in both cases overnight stays were possible. [4]
The unusual name of the village is derived from its position on the River Piddle, combined with it having been assessed for thirty hides in the Domesday Book.The name sometimes prompts amusement and discussion, and references have been made to it in the TV Times (25 April – 1 May 1970), The Times (a lengthy correspondence in 1974, then again on 27 March 1999), The Sunday Times ( 22 December ...