Kimmeridge Bay
Kimmeridge Bay is a bay on the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England, close to and southeast of the village of Kimmeridge, on the Smedmore Estate.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Kimeridge Bay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Clavell Tower and Smedmore House.
Clavell Tower
Tower
Clavell Tower, also known as Clavell Folly or the Kimmeridge Tower, is a Grade II listed Tuscan style tower built in 1830. It lies on the Jurassic Coast, on the top of Hen Cliff just east of Kimmeridge Bay in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England.
Smedmore House
Manor estate
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Smedmore House is a country house near Kimmeridge, Dorset, in England. It was originally built by Sir William Clavell around 1620, partially rebuilt by Edward Clavell around 1700, and greatly augmented by George Clavell around 1760.
St Nicholas’s Church, Kimmeridge
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Nicholas's Church is a parish church in Kimmeridge, Dorset. It is dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra. The church is in the Archdeaconry of Dorset, in the Diocese of Salisbury.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Steeple and East Creech.
Steeple
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Steeple is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in the English county of Dorset. It is situated 8 miles west of the coastal resort town of Swanage at the foot of Ridgeway Hill.
East Creech
Hamlet
Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Creech is a hamlet in the parish of Church Knowle in the county of Dorset, England. East Creech lies at the northern foot of the Purbeck Hills about 3 kilometres west of Corfe Castle.
Kingston
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingston is a small village on the Isle of Purbeck in the county of Dorset in southern England.
Kimmeridge Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.60953° or 50° 36′ 34″ northLongitude
-2.13384° or 2° 8′ 2″ westOpen location code
9C2VJV58+RFOpenStreetMap ID
node 29687823OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
2645533Wikidata ID
Q24640086
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Kimmeridge Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kimmeridge Bay”
- Chinese: “金默里奇灣”
- Japanese: “キンマリッジ湾”
- Swedish: “Kimmeridge Bay”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fine Foundation Marine Centre and Old Site of Clavel Tower.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kimmeridge Bay”. Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.