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Golden Cap
The great rocky shoulder of Golden Cap offers magnificent 360 degree views of the Jurassic coastline. On a clear day you can see across Lyme Bay to Dartmoor.
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Golden Cap, Golden Cap Estate, Morcombelake, Bridport, Dorset , United Kingdom
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Beach: Charmouth Beach View: Located just above the beach overlooking the bay. What’s on the menu?: Snacks, drinks, ice-creams
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Beach: East Beach View: Situated right on the beach with views of the Jurassic Dorset coastline across the harbour towards Thorncombe Beacon, Charmouth and Lyme Regis. Looking the other way towards Burton Bradstock you have the imposing golden cliffs that are so well known along this coastline. What’s on the menu?: Offering up the best of Dorset’s produce with an
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Beach: Lyme Regis View: Views across Lyme Bay to Golden Cap. What’s on the menu?: Breakfasts, snacks, sandwiches, salads, homemade cakes, drinks, ice-creams
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Beach: Hive Beach, Bridport View: Located right on the beach with an extensive outdoor patio area with stunning views across Lyme Bay. What’s on the menu?: A fantastic seafood café which has won many awards, offering a range of locally caught shellfish (in particular crabs) during the summer months. Also open for breakfasts and the homemade cakes are pretty good
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Seatown beach is a steep shingle beach and is regarded as one of Dorset’s prime fossil-hunting spots and is especially good for the elderly or young as access is good. In the shingle and fallen rocks at the foot of the cliffs you can find small ammonites. Facilities include parking, toilets and food outlets.
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Lyme Bay is situated on the south coast of England, towards the western end of the English Channel. The Lyme Bay coast makes for excellent family holidays with excellent beaches, watersports and great fossil hunting. Lyme Bay is between Torbay in the west and Portland in the east. The counties of Devon and Dorset front onto the bay. The area
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Charmouth beach is a sand, at low tide, and shingle beach that stretches for two miles with many rock pools. The beach is split into two either side of the River Char, with the East beach being the main family beach and the West beach is an excellent place for fossil hunting. To the west of Charmouth is the site of
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Eype’s Mouth beach is a gravel and sand beach backed by cliffs, including Golden Cap at 191m above sea level the highest cliff on the south coast. Facilities include parking, toilets and cafe/shop.
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Studland Bay has over 250 beach huts of which some 50 are available for rent from the National Trust. The huts vary in location in that some are on the beach edge overlooking Studland Bay whilst others are set back and more secluded among the sand dunes. Rent can be daily or weekly from Saturday to Friday.
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Bournemouth has 7 miles of sandy beach and distributed over this seafront are 250 beach huts for hire with all huts being furnished and come with three deckchairs, a gas ring and bottle. Locations include: Alum Chine Beach Durley Chine Beach Bournemouth West and East Beach Fisherman’s Walk Beach Southbourne Beach Boscombe Beach Beach huts are available for daytime use
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Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre has amazing fossil collections and provides information on fossils, fossil hunting and the local coastal and marine wildlife. Throughout the year we run guided fossil hunting walks and rock pooling walks along the local Charmouth and Lyme Regis coastline. The Centre also has an extensive education programme. Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre opening times: Summer (Easter –
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The award winning West Bay Discovery Centre tells the story of West Bay past and present featuring information, static and interactive displays, oral history and walking trails. There is something of interest for all visitors and ages. It also aims to provide information to visitors on all there is to do in this part of West Dorset. The Centre is
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The Lyme Regis Museum is also known as the Philpot Museum as it was commissioned in 1901 by Thomas Philpot, a relative of the fossil collector Elizabeth Philpot. Elizabeth Philpot befriended Mary Anning when Anning was still a child; despite the almost 20-year age difference the two became close and were frequently seen collecting fossils together. Philpot encouraged the young Anning to read about geology
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