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Old Harry Rocks Dorset Photographs
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Title: Roost for Sea Birds
Place: Old Harry Rocks
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About: The shiny white sea stacks of Old Harry make the perfect nesting place for breeding birds. The unreachable recesses are home to cormorants and sand martins and the ledges provide a home for peregrine ......
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Title: Joined to the Needles
Place: Old Harry Rocks
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About: About 10,000 years ago it would have been possible to walk across the bay but today the sea divides the chalk formations of the Purbeck in Dorset and those of the Needles on the Isle of White.
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Title: Boat Passing Old Harry
Place: Old Harry Rocks
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About: Old Harry lost his wife in 1896 when she collapsed after a storm. Another casualty caused by the horrendous conditions on that day was the old chain pier at Brighton which was washed away. Handfast Po......
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Title: Old Harry and Without His Wife
Place: Old Harry Rocks
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About: We have visited Old Harry Rocks on quite a few occasions but always from the land. This photograph was taken from the sea when we enjoyed a cruise from Swanage to Poole. The entrance to Poole harbour ......
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Title: Sea Caves
Place: Old Harry Rocks
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About: The chalk sea stacks of Old Harry, Turf Rick Rock and the Pinnacles located at map reference (SZ055 825)are Dorsets cretaceous counterparts of the older sandstone pillars that are found in Devon at La......
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About Old Harry Rocks Dorset.
There are several legends attached to the rocks and how they got their name. Some believe that they are named after the mediaeval pirate Henry Payne but another popular theory is that Harry was none other than the devil himself.
The chalk sea-stacks of Old Harry rocks are the most easterly point of Purbeck. The cliffs that lead to the stacks are known as the Foreland or Handfast Point and they are nearly vertical cliffs of some 100 - 180 feet high.
Old Harry was widowed in 1896 when Old Harry's Wife succumbed to erosion and collapsed into the sea during the same storm that destroyed the chain pier at Brighton.
Handfast Point has been the site of several fortifications and Henry VIII is known to have built a castle as one of a chain of South Coast Block-Houses. Today all trace of any buildings have been taken by the sea.
Parson's Barn is a large sea-level cavern below the main cliff and the waves have cut arches through the base of the stacks and this results in the ghostly pealing of bells still being heard in severe gales. Locals say this eerie noise is from a ship carrying bells for a church in Poole that sank because of the crew's blasphemy,
The gap between the headland and the stacks is called St. Lucas Leap reportedly after a greyhound that went over the cliff chasing a rabbit.
The coast walk from Studland gives magnificent views across Poole Harbour and the sight of the white rocks on a bright day is stunning.
The Isle of White is clearly visible from this vantage point and in the very distant past Old Harry would have been joined to the Needles,
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