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Old Harry Rocks
Sea stacks
Old Harry Rocks is located in Dorset
Old Harry Rocks
Old Harry Rocks
Coordinates: 50°38′32″N 1°55′25″W / 50.6423°N 1.9236°W / 50.6423; -1.9236
Grid positionSZ0350382564
LocationIsle of Purbeck, Dorset, England
Part ofJurassic Coast
GeologyChalk
Old Harry and his (latest) wife

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.

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Old Harry Rocks

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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...

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journalist Carl Feilberg (1844–1887) Old Harry oil field, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, Canada Old Harry Rocks, chalk formation at Handfast Point...

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of Swanage, the chalk outcrop creates the headland which includes Old Harry Rocks. The converse of a discordant coastline is a concordant coastline....

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Jurassic Coast stretches from Orcombe Point near Exmouth in East Devon to Old Harry Rocks near Swanage in East Dorset, a distance of 96 miles (154 km). Inscribed...

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Durley Chine

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and east of Westbourne. On clear days views of the Isle of Wight and Old Harry Rocks can be seen. Along the beach there are beach huts and a Harvester,...

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cove (Lulworth Cove), a natural arch (Durdle Door) and chalk stacks (Old Harry Rocks). Jutting out into the English Channel at roughly the midpoint of the...

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East Devon

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Jurassic Coast; the designated area continues into Dorset as far as the Old Harry Rocks near Swanage. The district was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local...

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Isle of Purbeck

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blue Chalk Milkwort (Polygala calcarea). In late May the field near Old Harry Rocks has a carpet of yellow Kidney Vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria). Blue and...

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Purbeck Hills

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the Purbeck Monocline, and extends from Lulworth Cove in the west to Old Harry Rocks in the east, where it meets the sea. The hills are part of a system...

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contiguous with the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset—the Needles on Wight and Old Harry Rocks on Purbeck are the last remnant of this connection. Ten thousand years...

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eroded. A narrow (less than 30 metres (98 ft)) band of Portland limestone rocks forms the shoreline. Behind this is a narrow (less than 50 metres (160 ft))...

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Swanage

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civil parish had a population of 9,601. Nearby are Ballard Down and Old Harry Rocks, with Studland Bay and Poole Harbour to the north. Within the parish...

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Cottage Hod Hill Kingston Lacy Lambert's Castle Lewesdon Hill Max Gate Old Harry Rocks Pilsdon Pen Portland House Spyway Studland Beach White Mill Bourne...

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Lange Anna on Heligoland, while, in England, a prominent example are Old Harry Rocks in Dorset. Furthermore, on a rocky cliffed coast wave action is not...

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Isle of Wight

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an island. The Needles, along with Old Harry Rocks on Purbeck, represent the edges of this breach. All the rocks found on the island are sedimentary...

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cattle help to maintain the area. Bournemouth is directly north of Old Harry Rocks, the easternmost end of the Jurassic Coast, 96 miles (155 km) of coastline...

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kilometres (95 mi) from Orcombe Point near Exmouth in the west to Old Harry Rocks in the east. The coastal exposures provide a continuous sequence of...

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Ballard Down

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between what is now west Dorset and the present day Isle of Wight. Old Harry Rocks, just offshore from the dip slope of the down, and The Needles on the...

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forming Ballard Cliff (near Swanage), Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door. At Old Harry Rocks (east of Studland and north of Swanage) these strata lines moving from...

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and members of the public sail from the mouth of the River Frome to Old Harry Rocks to confirm the mayor's authority over the water boundaries of the harbour...

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chalk Ballard Down, the eastern tip of which has been eroded to form Old Harry Rocks – a series of stacks, arches and caves jutting into the sea between...

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as at Flamborough Head, the White Cliffs of Dover, Seven Sisters, Old Harry Rocks (Purbeck) and The Needles on the Isle of Wight. The Chalk, which once...

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