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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 ...
The Weld family & Lulworth. Wareham: Lulworth Castle. 2004. Newth, John. "One of Dorset’s grandest and most interesting country houses - The history of Lulworth Castle is bound up with the stories of the Weld family and of one of the most important estates in South Dorset. John Newth has been to visit.". Dorset Life, April 2015.
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 ]
Weld of Lulworth Castle archive (ref: D/WLC), family and estate papers, 1261–1951, held at the Dorset History Centre; Kauffman, Miranda (2007). "English Heritage Properties - 1600-1830, Slavery Connections - A Report Undertaken to Mark the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the British Atlantic Slave Trade". One: Report and Appendix 1.
Lulworth is the popular name for an area on the coast of Dorset, South West England notable for its castle and However, there is no actual place or feature called simply "Lulworth", the villages are East and West Lulworth and the coastal feature is Lulworth Cove.
In 1928, on the death of Reginald's brother Humphrey, he inherited the rest of the Lulworth Estate, of the Weld-Blundell family. [12] In 1923 he started campaigning against Army use of Bindon Hill as a firing range, the beginning of the long conflict that centred on the fate of Tyneham and other parts of the Lulworth Estate. [13]
Colonel Sir Joseph William Weld, OBE, TD (1909-1992), was Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, a British army officer and landowner.A direct descendant of Sir Humphrey Weld (died 1610), and member of a noted recusant family, he became owner of the Lulworth Estate and Lulworth Castle in Dorset, in 1935 after the death of his cousin, Herbert Weld Blundell.
East Lulworth is a village and civil parish nine miles east of Dorchester, near Lulworth Cove, in the county of Dorset, England. The village, which consists of 17th-century thatched cottages, is dominated by the barracks of the Royal Armoured Corps Gunnery School who use a portion of the Purbeck Hills as a gunnery range.