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Old Harry Rocks Dorset Photographs
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Title: Old Harry and His Wife in a Pink Sky
Place: Old Harry Rocks
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About: The sun had set when this photograph was taken and the evening was very chilly but the sight of Old Harry and his Wife with the pink sky behind them made the wait worthwhile.
Photograph Added: 30th September 2007
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Title: Old Harry as the sun Sets
Place: Old Harry Rocks
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About: An early evening photograph of Old Harry taken when the sun had just started to come down in the sky. The shadow on Old Harry increased as we watched and enjoyed the wonderful panorama that was all around us.
Photograph Added: 30th September 2007
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Title: Sea Arch or Cave
Place: Old Harry Rocks
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About: The sea stacks in the foreground of this photograph certainly catch the eye but look closer and in the background it is just possible to see Bournemouth and look closer still and you can just make out the balloon rising in to the air. Old Harry origi......
Photograph Added: 11th June 2007
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Title: On the Cliffs
Place: Old Harry Rocks
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About: The coast path to Old Harry rocks is a well worn one with thousands of visitors a year eager to see the white sea stacks.
Photograph Added: 11th June 2007
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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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