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Kingsand, Cawsand & Penlee Point
...Portland Plateau Walk). In 1893 it was armed with four 9-inch guns and protected by an unclimbable fence, which was replaced with a pill box during the First World War, when the guns were upgraded. It...
Mutter's Moor and Peak Hill
...Portland Bill. Inland, too, great swathes of the countryside are laid out before you. The National Trust owns and manages the coastal woodland on Peak Hill, to your right, which can be seen for miles...
Chapman's Pool
...Portland limestone, laid down on top of the shale in a later period, before erosion and other processes reshaped the local landscape. When the path from the boathouse down at Chapman's Pool join...
Falmouth Docks Station - Town Walk
...Portland stone in 1869. Falmouth Moor has grown around a small village known as Smithick in the seventeenth century.  A stream once flowed through here and on to Smithick Creek, operating a water mill...
Maidencombe Circular
...Portland and the Dorset coast, where the white limestone cliffs of the Jurassic rocks are a striking contrast to Torbay's earlier red rocks. Towards the top turn left on the path heading through ...
St Aldhelms Head
...Portland limestone, laid down on top of the shale in a later period, before erosion and other processes reshaped the local landscape. Very soon steps descend into a steep-sided valley, and a footpath...
The Wildlife & Forts of Berry Head NNR
...Portland, 42 miles away on the other side of Lyme Bay, and most of the coast in between. Situated high on these cliffs provides a good vantage point to spot passing sea mammals, with harbour porpoises...
Bovisand & Hooe Lake
...Portland stone, and it incorporated Fisher's Nose Blockhouse, which had been protecting the Cattewater from its south-east corner since 1490. During the Dutch Wars in 1664-67, Charles II had real...
Sharkham Point & Berry Head
...Portland. The rare limestone grasslands provide a good habitat for many unusual plants. In the summer the cliffs are home to thousands of 'Brixham Penguins', whose rowdy activities can be wa...
Minster Wood & the Boscastle Floods
...Portland Coastguard station. 91 people were plucked from rooftops in the largest peacetime rescue operation ever mounted in the UK, and there were no casualties other than a broken thumb. When the wat...
Cawsand & Polhawn Forts
...Portland's was sixth-highest at £630,000), and the brief was to protect the Plymouth Sound from a sea-based attack and to provide a landward defence of the dockyard. Palmerston decided that Plymo...
Lamorna & St Loy
...Portland. In London, Lloyds Bank, the New Zealand Bank, New Scotland Yard, the steps to the National Gallery, the Embankment and the obelisk for the Great Exhibition were all built using local granite...
A taste of the Salt Path - Cremyll to Rame Head
...Portland's was sixth-highest at £630,000), and the brief was to protect the Plymouth Sound from a sea-based attack and to provide a landward defence of the dockyard. Palmerston decided that Plymo...
52 day itinerary
...Portland 13 miles Ferrybridge to Lulworth 14 miles Lulworth to Worth Matravers (through Lulworth Ranges) 14 miles Worth Matravers to South Haven Point 14 miles Alternative route between West Bexington...
Paignton Town Geology Trail
...Portland stone, a much younger limestone, aged about 150 million years, from the Jurassic Coast whilst next door on the left, the walls are of Devonian coral limestone. Using your magnifying glass, ha...

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