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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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 Grade II listed World War Two observation bunker overlooking Studland Bay, in Dorset. It was built in 1943 to defend the bay from possible German invasion along with other beach defences such as gun emplacements, Type 25 pill boxes and concrete Dragon’s Teeth anti-tank obstacles.
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. 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, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.63132° or 50° 37′ 53″ northLongitude
-1.9636° or 1° 57′ 49″ westElevation
531 feet (162 metres)Open location code
9C2WJ2JP+GHOpenStreetMap ID
node 29820187OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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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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Localities in the Area
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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 “Ballard Down”. Photo: Phil Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.