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Stair Hole and the Lulworth Crumple is a small cove located adjacent to Lulworth Cove on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset.
Folded limestone strata known as the Lulworth crumple are particularly visible at Stair Hole and a magnificent example of geological and tectonic processes such as the Alpine orogeny.
The Alpine Orogeny occurred mainly between 65 and 2.5 million years ago, although it is still active today. It saw the collision of the African and Eurasian plates, and the closure of the Tethys Ocean as oceanic lithosphere was subducted northwards beneath the Eurasian Plate, leaving today what we now know as the Mediterranean Sea.
The continental collisions of the Alpine Orogeny formed the Alps, Pyrenees and Carpathian Mountains in Europe. With the UK being over 1000 km from the collision zone, only minor structures record the orogeny. The majority of evidence comes from the Mesozoic and Cenozoic rocks of southern England, where it gave rise to localised folds and faults.
Stair Hole featured in Nuts in May, a Play for Today directed by Mike Leigh, and in Five on a Treasure Island, a 1957 film serial by the Children's Film Foundation and the background for the climactic sword fight between George Baker and Peter Arne in The Moonraker
Overcombe - a couple of miles north east of Weymouth.
At the beginning of the c20th there was a golf course and the painter John Constable had his honeymoon here.
In the field north of Bowleaze Coveway road are the remains of the C4th Romano-Celtic Temple and in 1928, an important hoard of late 4th century Roman coins was unearthed.
Overcombe is the principal location for Thomas Hardy's 1880 novel 'The Trumpet-Major', set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Morton House | Elizabethan E-Plan Grade II* listed | National Heritage Register.
Built in 1590 and the home of several notable families over the next four centuries; now a hotel.
The Dacombe family built Mortons House in 1590 - acquiring the estate by marriage in about 1500 when Thomas Dacombe married Elizabeth Clavell daughter and heir of Richard Clavell of Corfe Castle.
The Dackombe's were prominent Corfe citizens. Edward, son of William and Mary was mayor in 1623 and M.P.
His younger brother, Henry, also MP post in 1614 and 1621. Edward, son of Brune, was mayor in 1679 and called to Parliament to answer a charge of 'miscarriages in the returning of Members during elections.' His son, Henry who was mayor in 1699, was accused of 'partiality' when vowing his favourite candidate would win regardless of the election.
Henry Dacombe sold it to John Morton of Henbury in 1712 when it became known as Mortons House. With no direct heir it was left to his nephew Reverend John Colson.
Reverend John Colson (1701-1769) was the son of Robert Colson, mayor of Dorchester who had married John Morton’s sister Mary in 1700. Reverend John Colson sold it to John Bond (1717–1784) who was Member of Parliament in 1751.
It remained in the hands of the Bonds for two centuries, mostly rented out to wealthy tenants. One of the first was the Dampier family who have a memorial plaque in Corfe Castle Church. They were tenants for many years until the last daughter Mary died in 1820.
The most notable tenants were the Cavendish-Bentincks, residents from 1898 until 1933. (William George) Frederick Cavendish Bentinck (1856-1948) was the son of George Cavendish-Bentinck. In 1887 he married Ruth St. Maur (1867-1953) and the couple had five children two of whom became the 8th and 9th Dukes of Portland.
Ruth Cavendish Bentinck, became a famous suffragette and political activist. In 1911 she wrote a letter from Morton’s House which is still noteworthy in which she railed against changes to fair wage legislation. She thought these changes would damage the next generation as working men were struggling to feed their families, she said, and widows were expected to be grateful for a pittance to raise their fatherless children: “The West Country labourer is supposed to live on the beauty of his scenery and his picturesque (and too often insanitary) house,”
Ruth Cavendish-Bentinck was a most unlikely socialist and suffragist whose life reads like a Who’s Who of the late 19th/early 20th century. Her close friends were diverse, from George Bernard Shaw and Keir Hardy, to the Duke of Argyll and Edward VII’s mistress, Alice Keppel. Her extensive collection of books, about and for women, formed the basis of the culturally-important Women’s Library, now part of the LSE. Ruth’s unusual parentage is also thought to have been an inspiration for Pygmalion.
Ruth was the beautiful great-great-granddaughter of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. By marriage to Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck, from a family of dukes and other notables, she was related to Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother), and today to Timothy Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, better known as David Archer in The Archers. Ruth was also the mother of both the 8th and 9th (the last) Dukes of Portland.
She had a wide variety of close friends from George Bernard Shaw and Keir Hardie, to the Duke of Argyll and Edward VII’s mistress, Alice Keppel.
She was also friends with the famous Hungarian painter Philip de László and his wife Lucy (from the banking branch of the Guinness family) and in the 1920s this couple visited them at Mortons House.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_de_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3
De Laszlo owned one of the first motion cameras given to him by George Eastman founder of Kodak and there is short home movie of their visit together with the Duke and Duchess of Somerset.
The Cavendish Bentinck’s lived at Mortons House until 1933 and then lived in London. Freddie died in 1948 at the age of 92 and Ruth died in 1956 at the age of 86. They are both buried nearby at St James Churchyard in Kingston. In 1983 Sir John Rupert Colville wrote a book on Ruth’s interesting life called “Strange Inheritance".
janedismore.com/2017/12/14/of-dukes-soviets-and-suffragis...
In about 1940 the Bond family returned to live at Mortons House. Lieutenant Colonel Ashley Raymond Bond moved in with his wife Annette Hester Mary Bowles.
Hartland Moor
Declared a national nature reserve in 1954 and part of a larger area designated as a SSSI in 1986.
The northeastern part of the original SSSI was later excluded to become part of Poole Harbour SSSI. A large part of the site is owned by the National Trust.
The site is a lowland heathland. Plant communities range from dry heath to valley mire and together with adjoining reserves, Hartland Moor forms one of the largest areas of lowland heath and mire in the county—(the Dorset Heaths) The underlying soil, which formed on sands and clay of the Bagshot Beds, is very low in fertility.
The wetland surrounding the northern branch of the stream supports acid-loving wetland plants; golden bog-moss is abundant in this area. The wetland around the southern branch supports wetland plants that thrive in alkaline conditions; it is dominated by black bog-rush, which forms tussocks Rare plants on the site include Dorset heath, and, around a series of pools, bog sedge and the rare bog orchid.
The plants on the site are in turn a habitat for various animals, both local and rare. All six British reptile species are present on the site the rare sand lizard and smooth snake both breed on the property.
The site is grazed by a herd of Red Devon cattle that help to keep scrub vegetation from taking over the habitat.
Gorse found on the dry heath provides habitat for the European stonechat and the rare Dartford warbler, which is only present on a few sites in the United Kingdom.
Hartland Moor was the location of the first railway in Dorset; built in 1805, the Middlebere Plateway transported ball clay from Corfe Castle through the moor to Poole Harbour
The River Frome at Moreton ford in mid-January, a short distance from the grave of T.E.Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), the spectacular engraved church windows by Sir Lawrence Whistler, the fabulous Walled Garden teas rooms and a couple of miles from possibly the greatest tank museum in the world at Bovington. Various walking and cycling routes pass through here, such as the Frome Valley trail, the Hardy Way, Jubilee trail and National Cycle Route 2.
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February sunset - Rushy Pond - Egdon Heath - Thorncombe Wood - Dorset
'"The untameable, Ishmaelitish thing that Egdon now was it had always been. Civilization was its enemy: and ever since the beginning of vegetation its soil had worn the same antique brown dress, the natural and invariable garment of the particular formation. . . . The great inviolate place had an ancient permanence which the sea cannot claim."
Thomas Hardy, 'Return of the Native'
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Morton House | Elizabethan E-Plan Grade II* listed | National Heritage Register.
Built in 1590 and the home of several notable families over the next four centuries; now a hotel.
The Dacombe family built Mortons House in 1590 - acquiring the estate by marriage in about 1500 when Thomas Dacombe married Elizabeth Clavell daughter and heir of Richard Clavell of Corfe Castle.
The Dackombe's were prominent Corfe citizens. Edward, son of William and Mary was mayor in 1623 and M.P.
His younger brother, Henry, also MP post in 1614 and 1621. Edward, son of Brune, was mayor in 1679 and called to Parliament to answer a charge of 'miscarriages in the returning of Members during elections.' His son, Henry who was mayor in 1699, was accused of 'partiality' when vowing his favourite candidate would win regardless of the election.
Henry Dacombe sold it to John Morton of Henbury in 1712 when it became known as Mortons House. With no direct heir it was left to his nephew Reverend John Colson.
Reverend John Colson (1701-1769) was the son of Robert Colson, mayor of Dorchester who had married John Morton’s sister Mary in 1700. Reverend John Colson sold it to John Bond (1717–1784) who was Member of Parliament in 1751.
It remained in the hands of the Bonds for two centuries, mostly rented out to wealthy tenants. One of the first was the Dampier family who have a memorial plaque in Corfe Castle Church. They were tenants for many years until the last daughter Mary died in 1820.
The most notable tenants were the Cavendish-Bentincks, residents from 1898 until 1933. (William George) Frederick Cavendish Bentinck (1856-1948) was the son of George Cavendish-Bentinck. In 1887 he married Ruth St. Maur (1867-1953) and the couple had five children two of whom became the 8th and 9th Dukes of Portland.
Ruth Cavendish Bentinck, became a famous suffragette and political activist. In 1911 she wrote a letter from Morton’s House which is still noteworthy in which she railed against changes to fair wage legislation. She thought these changes would damage the next generation as working men were struggling to feed their families, she said, and widows were expected to be grateful for a pittance to raise their fatherless children: “The West Country labourer is supposed to live on the beauty of his scenery and his picturesque (and too often insanitary) house,”
Ruth Cavendish-Bentinck was a most unlikely socialist and suffragist whose life reads like a Who’s Who of the late 19th/early 20th century. Her close friends were diverse, from George Bernard Shaw and Keir Hardy, to the Duke of Argyll and Edward VII’s mistress, Alice Keppel. Her extensive collection of books, about and for women, formed the basis of the culturally-important Women’s Library, now part of the LSE. Ruth’s unusual parentage is also thought to have been an inspiration for Pygmalion.
Ruth was the beautiful great-great-granddaughter of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. By marriage to Frederick Cavendish-Bentinck, from a family of dukes and other notables, she was related to Elizabeth Bowes Lyon (later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother), and today to Timothy Bentinck, 12th Earl of Portland, better known as David Archer in The Archers. Ruth was also the mother of both the 8th and 9th (the last) Dukes of Portland.
She had a wide variety of close friends from George Bernard Shaw and Keir Hardie, to the Duke of Argyll and Edward VII’s mistress, Alice Keppel.
She was also friends with the famous Hungarian painter Philip de László and his wife Lucy (from the banking branch of the Guinness family) and in the 1920s this couple visited them at Mortons House.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_de_L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3
De Laszlo owned one of the first motion cameras given to him by George Eastman founder of Kodak and there is short home movie of their visit together with the Duke and Duchess of Somerset.
The Cavendish Bentinck’s lived at Mortons House until 1933 and then lived in London. Freddie died in 1948 at the age of 92 and Ruth died in 1956 at the age of 86. They are both buried nearby at St James Churchyard in Kingston. In 1983 Sir John Rupert Colville wrote a book on Ruth’s interesting life called “Strange Inheritance".
janedismore.com/2017/12/14/of-dukes-soviets-and-suffragis...
In about 1940 the Bond family returned to live at Mortons House. Lieutenant Colonel Ashley Raymond Bond moved in with his wife Annette Hester Mary Bowles.
Corfe Castle and the Swanage Railway is a railway branch line from near Wareham to Swanage, Dorset opened in 1885 and now operated as a heritage railway
The passenger service was withdrawn in 1972, leaving a residual freight service over part of the line handling mineral traffic.
After the passenger closure, a heritage railway group revived part of the line; it too used the name Swanage Railway and now operates a 9.5-mile (15.3 km) line which follows the route of the former line.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the area around Corfe Castle was known for its supply of Purbeck Ball Clay, which at that time was shipped by a pair of horse-drawn tramways to Poole Harbour. The port of Swanage at the tip of the Isle was equally well known for the Purbeck Marble mined locally and shipped out by sea.
While the development of Swanage as a tourist resort brought additional passenger traffic to the line, the collapse of both the clay and marble industries, and the increase in private car ownership in the second half of the 20th century made the line unprofitable. Closure was first proposed in 1967, and despite local opposition the line finally closed on 3 January 1972.
In the meantime the Swanage Railway had started operating a steam service at the Swanage end of the line in 1982.
There were concerns that reopening Corfe Castle station as a northern terminus for the Swanage Railway would cause parking problems in the village. It was therefore decided to extend the line a further half a mile north to a new Park and Ride site built on the former location of the exchange sidings
Corfe Castle station reopened on 12 August 1995, although the official opening was not until February of the following year.
Corfe Castle station is also the home of the Swanage Railway's Railway Museum, which is housed in the old goods shed and an adjacent rail van.
Kingston Maurward House built in 1720 for George Pitt in the classic Palladian style.
King George III is reputed to have been a frequent visitor and on the strength of a chance remark that he disliked red brick Houses, William Pitt had the entire building encased in Portland Stone in 1794.
Contemporary parkland and pleasure gardens laid out in the ﾓJardin Anglaisﾔ style popularised by Capability Brown. Simplicity was the hallmark of the gardens which consisted of rolling turf, carefully placed groups of trees, a 5 acre lake and a lakeside temple. The Gardens today are a survival from several periods.
The 35 acre Arts and Crafts garden was created between 1915 and 1922 within the existing framework of the 18th Century Parkland setting.
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The Himalayan Gardens at Minterne House, Minterne Magna in the Cerne Valley, Dorset. .
20 acres of wild woodland gardens, noted for the historic collection of Rhododendrons, Azaleas & Magnolias.
Between 1850 and 1947, Victorian plant hunters voyaged across the world, sponsored by amateur garden enthusiasts and brought countless new exotic species to English gardens; the seeds were shared around the sponsors who propagated this as a basis for exotic subtropical shrub gardens. Minterne Gardens were at the forefront of planting these newly introduced species.
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Corfe Castle and the Swanage Railway is a railway branch line from near Wareham to Swanage, Dorset opened in 1885 and now operated as a heritage railway
The passenger service was withdrawn in 1972, leaving a residual freight service over part of the line handling mineral traffic.
After the passenger closure, a heritage railway group revived part of the line; it too used the name Swanage Railway and now operates a 9.5-mile (15.3 km) line which follows the route of the former line.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the area around Corfe Castle was known for its supply of Purbeck Ball Clay, which at that time was shipped by a pair of horse-drawn tramways to Poole Harbour. The port of Swanage at the tip of the Isle was equally well known for the Purbeck Marble mined locally and shipped out by sea.
While the development of Swanage as a tourist resort brought additional passenger traffic to the line, the collapse of both the clay and marble industries, and the increase in private car ownership in the second half of the 20th century made the line unprofitable. Closure was first proposed in 1967, and despite local opposition the line finally closed on 3 January 1972.
In the meantime the Swanage Railway had started operating a steam service at the Swanage end of the line in 1982.
There were concerns that reopening Corfe Castle station as a northern terminus for the Swanage Railway would cause parking problems in the village. It was therefore decided to extend the line a further half a mile north to a new Park and Ride site built on the former location of the exchange sidings
Corfe Castle station reopened on 12 August 1995, although the official opening was not until February of the following year.
Corfe Castle station is also the home of the Swanage Railway's Railway Museum, which is housed in the old goods shed and an adjacent rail van.
Grade 2.
Table-tomb Monument to Combe in churchyard. Early C18. Grey stone with bolection-moulded panel with round-headed ends. . Momento mori on east end. Inscription to Frances Combe, wife of Mr Brian Combe of in the parish of Evershot, died Dec 1704"
Grade 1.
C12 and C13 nave and chancel. Octagonal bell-turret. South doorway Norman.
Table-tomb Monument to Combe in churchyard. Early C18. Grey stone with bolection-moulded panel with round-headed ends. . Momento mori on east end. Inscription to Frances Combe, wife of Mr Brian Combe of in the parish of Evershot, died Dec 1704"
One of Dorset’s Elizabethan gems is Kingston Maurward Manor, a rare E-plan house, of which only Parnham, Chantmarle and Anderson Manor bear some comparison. But the latter had their origins some one hundred years later than the manor at Maurward, so making its ground plan unique for the Dorset of its century.
Built around 1597
The Himalayan Gardens at Minterne House, Minterne Magna in the Cerne Valley, Dorset. .
20 acres of wild woodland gardens, noted for the historic collection of Rhododendrons, Azaleas & Magnolias.
Between 1850 and 1947, Victorian plant hunters voyaged across the world, sponsored by amateur garden enthusiasts and brought countless new exotic species to English gardens; the seeds were shared around the sponsors who propagated this as a basis for exotic subtropical shrub gardens. Minterne Gardens were at the forefront of planting these newly introduced species.
#minterne #localguide #cernevalley #minternemagna #RHS #royalhorticulturalsociety #rhododendron #garden #subtropicalgarden #minternemagnagardens #Dorset #January #Lockdown3 #Wessex #englishgarden #Himalayangarden #Digby #guidelocal #exploredorset #farfromthemaddingcrowd #Dorsetguide #england #swisbest❤️ #lovefordorset #secretdorset #january2021 #Dorsetwinter #cycledorset
Chesil Beach Walk/Cycle between Abbotsbury and West Bexington.
Littered with WW2 pillboxes, machine gun emplacements and radar stations.
Following Hitler's directive on 16 July 1940 to ensure England could not be a base from which war could be pursued against Germany, codenamed Operation Sealion, an invasion of the southern English Coast seemed imminent and Dorset was identified to be a favoured landing point.
Britain’s ability to defend herself was seriously compromised especially due to the fact that so much crucial equipment had been abandoned during the evacuation of Dunkirk.
The Directorate of Fortifications and Works at the British War Office was set up in May 1940 to devise specific designs for small defensive constructions to be built along the coast, such as the hexagonal pillboxes.
The success of the Battle of Britain forced Hitler to indefinitely postpone the invasion and after the war the defenceswere left to be demolished, gradually decompose or crumble into the sea.
#Jurassiccoast #WestBexington #Dorsetcoast #ww2 #pillboxes #June2021 #southwestcoastpath #wessex #Dorset #CycleDorset #ExploreDorset
The Cobb
(wikipedia)
It was made of oak piles driven into the seabed with boulders stacked between. The boulders had been floated into place, tied between empty barrels. A 1685 account describes it as, "an immense mass of stone, of a shape of a demi-lune, with a bar in the middle of the concave: no one stone that lies there was ever touched with a tool or bedded in any sort of cement, but all the pebbles of the see are piled up, and held by their bearings only, and the surge plays in and out through the interstices of the stone in a wonderful manner."
The Cobb wall provides a breakwater to protect the town from storms and separates Monmouth and Cobb Gate beaches and was of economic importance to the town and surrounding area, creating an artificial harbour that enabled the town to develop as a port and a shipbuilding centre from the 13th century onwards. Shipbuilding was significant between 1780 and 1850; nearly 100 ships were launched, including the 12-gun Royal Navy brig HMS Snap.
Well-sited for trade with France, the port's most prosperous period was from the 16th century until the end of the 18th century.
In 1780, the port was larger than the Port of Liverpool but the town's importance as a port declined in the 19th century because it was unable to handle the increase in ship sizes.
The Cobb has been destroyed or severely damaged by storms several times; it was swept away in 1377 when 50 boats and 80 houses were also destroyed. The southern arm was added in the 1690s and rebuilt in 1793 after it was destroyed in a storm the previous year. It is thought that mortar was used in the Cobb's construction for the first time in this rebuilding. It was reconstructed in 1820 using Portland Admiralty Roach, a type of Portland stone. After the Great Storm of 1824, Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN carried out pioneering lifeboat design work in the Cobb harbour.
The Cobb
(wikipedia)
It was made of oak piles driven into the seabed with boulders stacked between. The boulders had been floated into place, tied between empty barrels. A 1685 account describes it as, "an immense mass of stone, of a shape of a demi-lune, with a bar in the middle of the concave: no one stone that lies there was ever touched with a tool or bedded in any sort of cement, but all the pebbles of the see are piled up, and held by their bearings only, and the surge plays in and out through the interstices of the stone in a wonderful manner."
The Cobb wall provides a breakwater to protect the town from storms and separates Monmouth and Cobb Gate beaches and was of economic importance to the town and surrounding area, creating an artificial harbour that enabled the town to develop as a port and a shipbuilding centre from the 13th century onwards. Shipbuilding was significant between 1780 and 1850; nearly 100 ships were launched, including the 12-gun Royal Navy brig HMS Snap.
Well-sited for trade with France, the port's most prosperous period was from the 16th century until the end of the 18th century.
In 1780, the port was larger than the Port of Liverpool but the town's importance as a port declined in the 19th century because it was unable to handle the increase in ship sizes.
The Cobb has been destroyed or severely damaged by storms several times; it was swept away in 1377 when 50 boats and 80 houses were also destroyed. The southern arm was added in the 1690s and rebuilt in 1793 after it was destroyed in a storm the previous year. It is thought that mortar was used in the Cobb's construction for the first time in this rebuilding. It was reconstructed in 1820 using Portland Admiralty Roach, a type of Portland stone. After the Great Storm of 1824, Captain Sir Richard Spencer RN carried out pioneering lifeboat design work in the Cobb harbour.
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Chesil Beach Walk/Cycle between Abbotsbury and West Bexington.
Littered with WW2 pillboxes, machine gun emplacements and radar stations.
Following Hitler's directive on 16 July 1940 to ensure England could not be a base from which war could be pursued against Germany, codenamed Operation Sealion, an invasion of the southern English Coast seemed imminent and Dorset was identified to be a favoured landing point.
Britain’s ability to defend herself was seriously compromised especially due to the fact that so much crucial equipment had been abandoned during the evacuation of Dunkirk.
The Directorate of Fortifications and Works at the British War Office was set up in May 1940 to devise specific designs for small defensive constructions to be built along the coast, such as the hexagonal pillboxes.
The success of the Battle of Britain forced Hitler to indefinitely postpone the invasion and after the war the defenceswere left to be demolished, gradually decompose or crumble into the sea.
#Jurassiccoast #WestBexington #Dorsetcoast #ww2 #pillboxes #June2021 #southwestcoastpath #wessex #Dorset #CycleDorset #ExploreDorset
The Himalayan Gardens at Minterne House, Minterne Magna in the Cerne Valley, Dorset. .
20 acres of wild woodland gardens, noted for the historic collection of Rhododendrons, Azaleas & Magnolias.
Between 1850 and 1947, Victorian plant hunters voyaged across the world, sponsored by amateur garden enthusiasts and brought countless new exotic species to English gardens; the seeds were shared around the sponsors who propagated this as a basis for exotic subtropical shrub gardens. Minterne Gardens were at the forefront of planting these newly introduced species.
#minterne #localguide #cernevalley #minternemagna #RHS #royalhorticulturalsociety #rhododendron #garden #subtropicalgarden #minternemagnagardens #Dorset #January #Lockdown3 #Wessex #englishgarden #Himalayangarden #Digby #guidelocal #exploredorset #farfromthemaddingcrowd #Dorsetguide #england #swisbest❤️ #lovefordorset #secretdorset #january2021 #Dorsetwinter #cycledorset
Chesil Beach close to West Bexington.
Littered with WW2 pillboxes, machine gun emplacements and radar stations.
Following Hitler's directive on 16 July 1940 to ensure England could not be a base from which war could be pursued against Germany, codenamed Operation Sealion, an invasion of the southern English Coast seemed imminent and Dorset was identified to be a favoured landing point.
Britain’s ability to defend herself was seriously compromised especially due to the fact that so much crucial equipment had been abandoned during the evacuation of Dunkirk.
The Directorate of Fortifications and Works at the British War Office was set up in May 1940 to devise specific designs for small defensive constructions to be built along the coast, such as the hexagonal pillboxes.
The success of the Battle of Britain forced Hitler to indefinitely postpone the invasion and after the war the defenceswere left to be demolished, gradually decompose or crumble into the sea.
#Jurassiccoast #WestBexington #Dorsetcoast #ww2 #pillboxes #June2021 #southwestcoastpath #wessex #Dorset #CycleDorset #ExploreDorset