Lulworth
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.Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: coast
- Description: area of Dorset, England
- Also known as: “Lulworth, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Durdle Door and Hambury Tout.
Durdle Door
Photo: jacob, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Durdle Door is a natural limestone arch on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth in Dorset, England. It is privately owned by the Weld family, who own the Lulworth Estate, but it is also open to the public.
Hambury Tout
Peak
Photo: ian saunders, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hambury Tout is a large chalk hill by the coast near Lulworth, Dorset, England. The hill overlooks Lulworth Cove to the west. To the east is Durdle Door.
Bindon Hill
Archaeological site
Bindon Hill is an extensive Iron Age earthwork, enclosing a coastal hill area on the Jurassic Coast near Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England. It is about 19 kilometres west of Swanage, about 6 kilometres south west of Wareham, and about 17 kilometres southeast of Dorchester.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Lulworth and Chaldon Herring.
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.
Chaldon Herring
Village
Photo: Eugene Birchall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chaldon Herring or East Chaldon is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, about 8 miles south-east of the county town of Dorchester.
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.
Lulworth
Latitude
50.6208° or 50° 37′ 15″ northLongitude
-2.2498° or 2° 14′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C2VJQC2+83Wikidata ID
Q1144249
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