Ballard Down

Ballard Down is an area of chalk downland on the Purbeck Hills in the English county of Dorset. The hills meet the English Channel here, and Ballard Down forms a headland, Ballard Point, between Studland Bay to the north and Swanage Bay to the south.

Photo: Phil Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Old Harry Rocks and Fort Henry.

Old Harry Rocks

Photo: John Tomlinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England. They mark the most eastern point of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Fort Henry

Photo: Stevekraken, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort Henry is a World War Two observation bunker overlooking Studland Bay, in Dorset. It was constructed during September-October 1943 by 12 Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers for Exercise Pirate, the first large scale, live fire, rehearsal for the Normandy Landings.

Swanage Railway Station

Railway station

Photo: Steinsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Swanage railway station is located in Swanage, on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. Originally the terminus of a London and South Western Railway branch line from Wareham, the line and station were closed by British Rail in 1972.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Swanage and Nine Barrow Down.

Swanage

Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Swanage is a coastal town of 9,600 people in Dorset. It is at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck and one of its two towns. The town is a popular tourist resort, with many thousands of visitors coming to the town during the peak summer season, drawn by the bay's sandy beaches and other attractions.

Nine Barrow Down

Locality

Photo: StephenDawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Nine Barrow Down is an elongated hill forming the northern ridge of the Purbeck Hills on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. The chalk down is part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation.

Herston

Neighborhood

Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Herston is a western suburb of the town of Swanage, in Dorset, England. It has its own railway station – Herston Halt railway station Near Corfe Castle – on the Swanage Railway.

Ballard Down

Type: Peak with an elevation of 531 feet
Description: area of chalk downland on the Purbeck Hills, Dorset, England
Categories: downland and landform
Location: Studland, Purbeck District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.63132° or 50° 37′ 53″ north

Longitude

-1.9636° or 1° 57′ 49″ west

Elevation

531 feet (162 metres)

Open location code

9C2WJ2JP+GH

OpenStreetMap ID

node 29820187

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

12612242

Wikidata ID

Q805152

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Ballard Down” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Ballard Down”
German: “Ballard Down”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ballard Down”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ballard Point”

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