Dorset
Purbeck District
West Lulworth

Mupe Bay

Mupe Bay is a bay with a shingle beach to the east of in , , and is part of the World Heritage Site. The bay exposes a sequence of Cretaceous rocks from the Chalk in the north through the Wealden Beds to the Purbeck Beds in the south at Mupe Rocks.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Bindon Hill and Fossil Forest.

Archaeological site
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is an extensive Iron Age earthwork enclosing a coastal hill area on the near in , England, about 19 kilometres west of , about 6 kilometres south west of , and about 17 kilometres south east of .

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The is the remains of an ancient submerged forest from Jurassic times, located to the east of on the in , .

Pub
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The is a public house in , , England, which dates from the 16th century. It was originally called The Green Man, and later The Jolly Sailor.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lulworth and Stair Hole.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the popular name for an area on the coast of , notable for its castle and cove. However, there is no actual place or feature called simply "Lulworth", the villages are East and West and the coastal feature is Cove.

Locality
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is a small cove located just west of in , southern England. The folded limestone strata known as the Lulworth crumple are particularly visible at .

Village
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is a village and civil parish nine miles east of , near , in the county of , 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 as a gunnery range.

Mupe Bay

Latitude
50.61762° or 50° 37′ 3″ north
Longitude
-2.22224° or 2° 13′ 20″ west
Open location code
9C2VJQ9H+24
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4478900294
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­bay
Geo­Names ID
11102862
Wiki­data ID
Q6937101
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Satellite Map

Discover Mupe Bay from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mupe Bay” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Mupe Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mupe Bay”
  • Swedish: “Mupe Bay”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Bindon Hill and Bindon Plantation.

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