Worbarrow Bay
Worbarrow Bay is a large broad and shallow bay just to the east of Lulworth Cove on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England.- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Dorset, England
- Also known as: “Warbarrow Bay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Worbarrow Tout and Flower’s Barrow.
Worbarrow Tout
Peak
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Worbarrow Tout is a promontory at the eastern end of Worbarrow Bay on Isle of Purbeck in Dorset on the south coast of England, about 6 kilometres south of Wareham and about 16 kilometres west of Swanage.
Flower’s Barrow
Archaeological site
Photo: JimChampion, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Flower’s Barrow is an Iron Age hillfort, built over 2500 years ago, above Worbarrow Bay in Dorset on the south coast of England. Flower’s Barrow is located about 11 miles west of Swanage and about 6.25 miles south-west of Wareham.
Tyneham
Museum
Tyneham is a ghost village abandoned in 1943 and former civil parish, now in the parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in the Dorset district, in the south of Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Lulworth and Lulworth.
East Lulworth
Village
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Lulworth
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lulworth is the popular name for an area on the coast of Dorset, South West England notable for its castle and cove. 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.
Stair Hole
Locality
Photo: ian freeman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stair Hole is a small cove located just west of Lulworth Cove in Dorset, southern England. The folded limestone strata known as the Lulworth crumple are particularly visible at Stair Hole.
Worbarrow Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.6177° or 50° 37′ 4″ northLongitude
-2.19066° or 2° 11′ 26″ westOpen location code
9C2VJR95+3POpenStreetMap ID
node 263554793OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
2633564Wikidata ID
Q2593386
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Worbarrow Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Worbarrow Bay”
- Dutch: “Worbarrow Bay”
- German: “Mupe Bay”
- German: “Worbarrow Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Worbarrow Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Worbarrow Tout”
- Swedish: “Worbarrow Bay”
- Welsh: “Worbarrow Bay”
Localities in the Area
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