HampshireCam Travels ~ Lulworth Castle and Cove

Lulworth Cove is a beautifully shaped cove formed over a 100 million years ago. The cove and its pebble beach by virtue of its very shape is extremely sheltered. Lulworth Cove is between Swanage and Weymouth and part of the World Heritage Jurassic Coastline. Click on the image for a panorama of the cove.                                              Photo: David Packman

 

Anyone wishing for more information on the Jurassic Coastline should visit Dr Ian West's website at the School of Ocean and Earth Sciences at the National Oceanography Centre Southampton, it's full of photographs and geological data.

Photo: David Packman

 

Nestling in the valley bottom a small part of Lulworth Cove village, the long white building on the left is the old coastguard cottages. Below, floats, markers and exploded ordnance decorate the wall of one of the cottages.  Photo: David Packman

 

Photo: David Packman

 

Stair Hole - Climate changes over a 100 million years ago produced the layered Purbeck rock, this was later re-shaped by the collision of two continental plates. In the background people climb Hambury Tout on the footpath to Durdle Door.

Photo: David Packman

 

Photo: David Packman

 

A group of Royal Marine Rigid Raiders in Lulworth Cove.                                                             Photo: David Packman


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