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Durdle Door from the eastern side of the estate. The Lulworth Estate is a country estate located in central south Dorset, England. Its most notable landscape feature is a five-mile stretch of coastline on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site, including Durdle Door and Lulworth Cove. The historic estate includes the Lulworth Castle and park ...
There is a dearth of early written records about the arch, [12] though it has kept a name given to it probably over a thousand years ago. [10] In the late 18th century there is a description of the "magnificent arch of Durdle-rock Door", [10] and early 19th-century maps called it "Duddledoor" and "Durdle" or "Dudde Door".
Lulworth Cove is a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, southern England.The cove is one of the world's finest examples of such a landform, and is a World Heritage Site and tourist location with approximately 500,000 [1] visitors every year, of whom about 30 per cent visit in July and August. [2]
A visitor centre and car park occupy a hillside at Lulworth Cove, a popular attraction in the Dorset National Landscape. The coast and countryside in the National Landscape area are valued for its recreational amenity value, with the Dorset National Landscape Partnership recognising pressure from a population of 2.15 million people who live within 40 miles of the National Landscape. [1]
Man o' War Cove from the cliffs. The top of Durdle Door, and a glimpse of its opening, can be seen at the top of the steps.. Man o' War Cove (or Man of War Bay and similar names) lies on the Dorset coast in southern England and is flanked by the rocky, steep and slightly projecting headlands of Durdle Door to the west and Man O War (or O' War) Head to the east.
Swyre Head, Lulworth is a hill and sea cliff which lies on the Jurassic Coast between Bat's Head to the west and Durdle Door to the east, close to Lulworth (further to the east) in Dorset, England. It is located approximately 8 miles (12.9 km) east of Weymouth and 14 miles (22.5 km) west of Swanage .
West Lulworth is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, situated on the English Channel beside Lulworth Cove.In the 2011 census the civil parish—which includes most of Lulworth Camp army base—had 291 households and a population of 714. [1]
It is also possible to walk to Ringstead Bay on a circular walk from Lulworth Cove to the east, via Durdle Door and White Nothe. [9] The small village of Osmington Mills lies on the coast about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) to the west and there is a footpath along the cliffs, via Bran Point. [10] [11] Perry Ledge is a reef off the beach near Bran ...