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Houses on Durlston Road
These houses on Durlston Road have rather extravagant appendages - turrets and balconies and so on.
Image: © Jim Champion
Taken: 27 Oct 2008
0.04 miles
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Swanage: postbox № BH19 116, Durlston Road
This Elizabeth II-reign postbox stands on the corner of Bon Accord Road, along which we look, and is emptied finally at 4pm on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 20 Feb 2010
0.05 miles
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Guidestone, Durlston Road, Swanage
Carved stone guide post in the Parish of Swanage (Purbeck District) on Durlston Road, Swanage, junction with Bon Accord Road, built into garden wall. Erected for local entrepreneur George Burt as part of his abortive scheme to develop the area; late C19th.
Inscription reads:-
TO DURLSTON HEAD
{hand to left} AND CASTLE
THE LARGE GLOBE
AND THE CAVES
Milestone Society National ID: DO_DHLI03.
Image: © Milestone Society
Taken: 31 May 2017
0.05 miles
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Pine, grounds of Wordsworth House, Swanage
A care home. Oddly it has a minibus inscribed 'Marley House Nursing Home' parked by the tree. That is in Winfrith Newburgh.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 30 Oct 2012
0.07 miles
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Durlston Road, Swanage
Image: © nick macneill
Taken: 20 Nov 2011
0.09 miles
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Coastal path winding through the woods, south of Swanage
Image: © N Chadwick
Taken: 12 Apr 2008
0.11 miles
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Swanage: postbox № BH19 174, South Cliff Road
A small postbox on a fairly steep, unmade road whose name is spelt with or without an E on the end of Cliff, depending on which sign you look at. It is emptied finally at 4pm on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 20 Feb 2010
0.11 miles
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Guidestone, Durlston Road, Swanage
Carved stone guide post in the Parish of Swanage (Purbeck District) on Durlston Road, Swanage, at entrance to park in pillar, East side of road. Erected for local entrepreneur George Burt as part of his abortive scheme to develop the area; late C19.
Inscription reads:- : TO DURLSTON HEAD AND CASTLE / {hand to left} THE LARGE GLOBE / TILLY WHIM CAVES / AND THE LIGHT HOUSE :
Milestone Society National ID: DO_DHLI04.
Image: © Milestone Society
Taken: 31 May 2017
0.11 miles
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Landslips, Durlston Bay
The softer clays and greensands is prone to landslips. The most recent slip is on the left of the picture, marked by an area of dead and dying trees.
Image: © Ian Andrews
Taken: 11 Jul 2013
0.12 miles
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Former route of the coastal path, south of Belle Vue Road
A beautiful view from these flats, maybe, but not a such beauty to look at. There is an identical block hidden behind the block seen here. The coast path used to continue on from here to the right, around the bottom of the gardens, but a mudslide in April 2001 wiped it out and now this is a 'dead-end' path at the northern extreme of Durlston Country Park. There is stone seat in the shadows beneath the tree in the foreground, but its inscription is badly weathered and thus hard to read.
The far section of the former coastal path climbs up between the ugly flats and the block beyond, via a set of stone steps. These can still be accessed from Belle Vue Road, but now they only lead to the top of the Zigzag Path which leads down to the bottom of the cliffs in the middle of Durlston Bay.
Image: © Jim Champion
Taken: 25 Oct 2009
0.12 miles