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Northumberland
[edit]| Headland | Description | Public access? |
Coord | Grid ref |
Image |
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| Hud's Head | |||||
| Beal Point | |||||
| Lowmoor Point | |||||
| Ross Point | |||||
| Kiln Point | |||||
| Budle Point | |||||
| Blackrocks Point | |||||
| Snook or North Sunderland Point | |||||
| Red Brae or Dell Point | |||||
| Newton Point | |||||
| Castle Point | |||||
| Cullernose Point | |||||
| Seaton Point | |||||
| Pan Point | |||||
| Wellhaugh Point | |||||
| Snab Point | |||||
| Beacon Point | |||||
| Newbiggin Point | |||||
| Spital Point | |||||
| Crag Point | |||||
| Curry's Point | |||||
| Brown's Point | |||||
| Tynemouth North Point | |||||
| Sharpness Point | |||||
| Freestone Point | |||||
| Lindisfarne
(Listed clockwise from causeway) | |||||
| Snook Point | |||||
| Snipe Pint | |||||
| Emmanuel Head | |||||
| Castle Point |
County Durham
[edit]| Headland | Description | Public access? |
Coord | Grid ref |
Image |
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| Trow Point | |||||
| Lizard Point | |||||
| Souter Point | |||||
| Nose's Point | |||||
| Chourdon Point | |||||
| Hive Point | |||||
| Beacon Point | |||||
| Shippersea Point | |||||
| Hartlepool Point | |||||
| Inscar Point |
North Yorkshire
[edit]| Headland | Description | Public access? |
Coord | Grid ref |
Image |
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| Ness Point or North Cheek | |||||
| Old Peak or South Cheek | |||||
| Blea Wyke Point | |||||
| Hundale Point | |||||
| Long Nab | |||||
| Cromer Point | |||||
| Scalby Ness | |||||
| White Nab | |||||
| Osgodby Point |
Norfolk
[edit]| Headland | Description | Public access? |
Coord | Grid ref |
Image |
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| St Edmund's Point | |||||
| Gore Point | |||||
| Scolt Head | |||||
| High Cape | |||||
| Blakeney Point* | |||||
| Marl Point | |||||
| Little Marl Point | |||||
| Winterton Ness | |||||
| Caister Point |
Suffolk
[edit]| Headland | Description | Public access? |
Coord | Grid ref |
Image |
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| Lowestoft Ness* (most easterly point of UK) |
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| Benacre Ness | |||||
| Thorpe Ness | |||||
| Orford Ness* | |||||
| Landguard Point | |||||
| Bloody Point |
Essex
[edit]| Headland | Description | Public access? |
Coord | Grid ref |
Image |
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| Stone Point | |||||
| The Naze* | |||||
| Sandy Point | |||||
| Chevaux de frise Point | |||||
| Colne Point | |||||
| Sandy Point | |||||
| St Osyth Stone Point | |||||
| Westmarsh Point | |||||
| Shinglehead Point | |||||
| Mill Point | |||||
| Decoy Point | |||||
| Mundon Stone Point | |||||
| Sales Point | |||||
| Holliwell Point | |||||
| Wallasea Ness | |||||
| Foulness Point | |||||
| Shoebury Ness* | |||||
| Canvey Point | |||||
| Shellhaven Point |
Kent
[edit]| Headland | Description | Public access? |
Coord | Grid ref |
Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lower Hope Point | |||||
| West Point | |||||
| Foreness Point | |||||
| White Ness | |||||
| North Foreland* | |||||
| Shell Ness | |||||
| Hope Point | |||||
| South Foreland* | |||||
| Copt Point | |||||
| Dungeness* | |||||
| Isle of Sheppey Listed clockwise from Kingsferry Bridge | |||||
| Garrison Point | |||||
| Barton's Point | |||||
| Warden Point | |||||
| Shell Ness | |||||
| Spitend Point |
East Sussex
[edit]| Headland | Description | Public access? |
Coord | Grid ref |
Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langney Point | |||||
| Beachy Head* |
West Sussex
[edit]| Headland | Description | Public access? |
Coord | Grid ref |
Image |
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| Selsey Bill* | |||||
| East Head | |||||
| Cobnor Point | |||||
| Longmere Point | |||||
| Marker Point |
Hampshire
[edit]| Headland | Description | Public access? |
Coord | Grid ref |
Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilkicker Point | |||||
| Browndown Point | |||||
| Calshot Spit | |||||
| Stone Point | |||||
| Needs Ore Point | |||||
| Hurst Castle Spit | |||||
| Hayling Island | |||||
| Black Point | |||||
| Eastoke Point |
Isle of Wight
[edit](Listed clockwise from East Cowes)
| Headland | Description | Public access? |
Coord | Grid ref |
Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Castle Point | |||||
| Puckpool Point | |||||
| Nettlestone Point | |||||
| Horestone Point | |||||
| Node's Point | |||||
| Bembridge Point | |||||
| Foreland | |||||
| Dunnose | |||||
| Woody Point | |||||
| Binnel Point | |||||
| St. Catherine's Point* | |||||
| Atherfield Point | |||||
| Hanover Point | |||||
| New Ditch Point | |||||
| The Needles* | |||||
| Hatherwood Point | |||||
| Warden Point | |||||
| Sconce Point | |||||
| Hamstead Point | |||||
| Egypt Point |
Dorset
[edit]| Headland | Description | Public access? |
Coord | Grid ref |
Image |
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| Hengistbury Head* | Sandstone cliffs and spit between Christchurch Bay and Poole Bay. Forms the southern boundary of Christchurch Harbour | SZ163911 | 
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| North Haven Point | |||||
| South Haven Point | |||||
| The Foreland or Handfast Point* | Chalk cliffs and stacks. Together with Ballard Point, The Foreland separates Studland Bay to the north from Swanage Bay to the south. | 
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| Ballard Point | Chalk cliffs. Together with The Foreland, Ballard Point separates Studland Bay to the north from Swanage Bay to the south. | SZ025812 | |||
| Peveril Point* | Low cliffs composed of Purbeck and Portland limestone and shale. Separates Swanage Bay to the north from Durlston Bay to the south. | 
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| Durlston Head* | |||||
| Anvil Point | |||||
| St Aldhelm's Point or St Alban's Head | 50.5788 -2.0565 |
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| Egmont Point | |||||
| Worbarrow Tout | 50.6156 -2.185 |
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| Bat's Head | |||||
| White Nothe | 
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| Redcliff Point | |||||
| Portland Bill or Bill of Portland* | 
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| Golden Cap |
Physical geography
[edit]Dorset covers an area of 2,653 km2 (1,024 sq mi) and contains considerable variety in its underlying geology, which is partly responsible for the diversity of landscape.[1][2][3] A large percentage (66%) of the county comprises either chalk, clay or mixed sand and gravels, but the remainder is more complex and contains hard rock such as Portland or Purbeck stone, other limestones, calcareous clays and shales.[4] Both Portland and Purbeck stone are of national importance as a building material and for restoring some of Britain's most famous landmarks. [5][6] Almost every type of rock known from the Early Jurassic epoch through to the Eocene epoch can be found within the county.[7][8]
Dorset has a number of limestone ridges, which are mostly covered in either arable fields or calcareous grassland supporting sheep.[9] These limestone areas include a wide band of Cretaceous chalk which crosses the county as a range of hills from north-east to south-west, incorporating Cranborne Chase and the Dorset Downs, and a narrow band running from south-west to south-east, incorporating the Purbeck Hills.[10][11] Between the chalk hills are large, wide vales with wide flood plains.[8] These vales are dotted with small villages, farms and coppices,[12] and include the Blackmore Vale (Stour valley) and Frome valley.[11] The Blackmore Vale is composed of older Jurassic deposits, largely clays interspersed with limestones[8], and has traditionally been a centre for dairy agriculture.[13] South-east Dorset, including the lower Frome valley and around Poole and Bournemouth, lies on younger Eocene deposits,[8] mainly sands and clays of poor agricultural quality.[14] The soils created from these deposits support a heathland habitat which sustains all six native British reptile species.[15] In the far west of the county there are frequent changes in rock strata, which appear in a less obviously sequential way compared to the chalklands and vales further east.[16] This results in a hilly landscape of diverse character that resembles that of neighbouring West Country county Devon.[17] Marshwood Vale, a valley of Lower Lias clay at the western tip of the county,[18] lies to the south of the two highest points in Dorset: Lewesdon Hill at 279 m (915 ft) and Pilsdon Pen at 277 m (909 ft).[19]
A former river valley flooded by rising sea levels 6,000 years ago, Poole Harbour is one of the largest natural harbours in the world.[20][21] The harbour is very shallow in places and contains a number of islands, notably Brownsea Island, the birthplace of the Scouting movement and one of the few remaining sanctuaries for indigenous red squirrels in England.[22] The harbour, and the chalk and limestone hills of the Isle of Purbeck to the south, lie atop Western Europe's largest onshore oil field. The field, operated by BP from Wytch Farm, has the world's oldest continuously pumping well at Kimmeridge which has been producing oil since the early 1960s. [23][24]
Dorset's varied geography also ensures it has a variety of rivers, although a modest annual rainfall averaging around 900 mm (35 in), coupled with rolling hills, means most are characteristically lowland in nature.[25] Much of the county drains into three rivers, the Frome, Piddle and Stour which all flow to the sea in a south-easterly direction.[26] The Frome and Piddle are chalk streams but the Stour, which rises in Wiltshire to the north, has its origins in clay soil.[27] The River Avon, which flows mainly through Wiltshire and Hampshire, enters Dorset towards the end of its journey at Christchurch Harbour.[28] The rivers Axe and Yeo, which principally drain the counties of Devon and Somerset respectively, have their sources in the north-west of the county, while in the south-west, a large number of small rivers run into the sea along the Dorset coastline; most notable of these are the Char, Brit, Bride and Wey.[29]
Most of Dorset's coastline forms the major part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site, which stretches for 95 miles between Exmouth in Devon and Studland in Dorset. This coast documents the entire Mesozoic era, from Triassic to Cretaceous and is noted for its geological landforms.[30] The Dorset section has yielded important fossils, including the first complete Ichthyosaur and Jurassic trees.[30]It also features notable coastal landforms, including textbook examples of a cove (Lulworth Cove), a natural arch (Durdle Door)[31] and, at the most easterly part of the Jurassic Coast, the chalk stacks known as Old Harry Rocks.[32] Jutting out into the English Channel at roughly the midpoint of the Dorset coastline is the Isle of Portland, a limestone island that is connected to the mainland by Chesil Beach, a 17-mile (27 km) long shingle barrier beach protecting Britain's largest tidal lagoon.[33][34]
The county has one of the highest proportion of conservation areas in England—including two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty which together cover 53% of the county.[35][36] There is also a 114 km (71 mi) World Heritage Site,[37] two Heritage Coasts totaling 92 km (57 mi)[37] and Sites of Special Scientific interest covering 199.45 km2 (77 sq mi).[38] The South West Coast Path, a National Trail, runs along the Dorset coast from the Devon boundary to South Haven Point near Poole.[39]
References
[edit]- ^ "Dorset Data Book". Dorset County Council. 2010. p. 8. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
- ^ Draper (p.136)
- ^ Chaffey (p.5)
- ^ Draper (pp.136–137)
- ^ "Dorset's Minerals Core Strategy" (PDF). Dorset County Council. p. 22. Archived from the original on 18 February 2012. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
- ^ "Planning for Minerals and Waste (newsletter number 8)" (PDF). Dorset For You. p. 3. Archived from the original on 26 March 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ^ Chaffey (p.9)
- ^ a b c d "Geology of Britain Viewer". British Geological Survey. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
- ^ Cullingford (P.91)
- ^ Chaffey (p.43)
- ^ a b Chaffey (p.11)
- ^ Chaffey (pp.23–26)
- ^ Wightman, R., Portrait of Dorset, Hale, 1983, p15 ISBN 0 7090 0844 9
- ^ Wightman, R., Portrait of Dorset, Hale, 1983, pp22-25 ISBN 0 7090 0844 9
- ^ "Dorset's Heathland Reptiles". Dorset County Council. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2011.
- ^ Wightman, R. "Portrait Of Dorset", Hale, 1983, p19 ISBN 0 7090 0844 9
- ^ Wightman, R. "PortraitOf Dorset", Hale, 1983, p10 ISBN 0 7090 0844 9
- ^ Paul, Ensom (1998). Discover Dorset: Geology. Wimborne: Dovecote Press. p. 21. ISBN 1-874336-52-0.
- ^ Chaffey (p.54)
- ^ "Harbour Masters". Bournemouth Daily Echo. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2011.
- ^ "About Us". Poole Harbour Commissioners. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
- ^ "Nature Conservation and Landscape" (PDF). Poole Harbour Management Plan. Poole Harbour Commissioners. 2006. pp. 1–2. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2011.
- ^ Cullingford (p.122)
- ^ "Wytch Farm" (PDF). Asset Portfolio. BP. 2012. Archived from the original on 21 February. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|archivedate=(help) - ^ Wright (p.7)
- ^ Wright (pp.6–7)
- ^ Wright (pp.7–14)
- ^ Wright (pp.16–17)
- ^ Wright (p.17)
- ^ a b "Jurassic coast is world wonder". BBC News. 13 December 2001. Retrieved 12 August 2009.
- ^ "Path Description - Dorset". South West Footpath Association. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ "Old Harry Rocks". Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2011.
- ^ "Jewels of the Jurassic Coast". West Dorset District Council. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ Chaffey (pp.68–70)
- ^ "Dorset, Bournemouth, Poole Brief". Government Office for South-West. May 2010. p. 1. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- ^ planning constraints DFY "Planning constraints". Dorset for You. Dorset County Council. Archived from the original on 21 February 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ a b "Length of coastline and coastal designations". Dorset County Council. 2007. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
- ^ "Nature Conservation Designations - SSSIs". Dorset County Council. 2007. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2007.
- ^ "The South West Coast Path". Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 30 January 2012.
West Dorset parish populations
[edit]| Rank | Parish | Population | Current Wikipedia description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dorchester | 19,060 | County town |
| 2 | Sherborne | 9,523 | Market town |
| 3 | Bridport | 8,332 | Market town |
| 4 | Chickerell | 5,515 | Town |
| 5 | Lyme Regis | 3,671 | Coastal town |
| 6 | Beaminster | 3,136 | Small town |
| 7 | Charminster | 2,940 | Village |
| 8 | Bradpole | 2,339 | Village |
| 9 | Crossways | 2,267 | Village |
| 10 | Bothenhampton | 2,131 | Village |
| 11 | Puddletown | 1,405 | Village |
| 12 | Broadwindsor | 1,378 | Village |
| 13 | Charmouth | 1,352 | Village |
| 14 | Netherbury | 1,314 | Village |
| 15 | Broadmayne | 1,204 | Village |
| 16 | Maiden Newton | 1,119 | Village |
| 17 | Yetminster | 1,105 | Village |
| 18 | Symondsbury | 1,059 | Village |
| 19 | Bradford Abbas | 975 | Village |
| 20 | Burton Bradstock | 948 | Village |
| 21 | Thornford | 939 | Village |
| 22 | Cerne Abbas | 784 | Village |
| 23 | Allington | 766 | Village |
| 24 | Winterborne St Martin | 755 | Village |
| 25 | Thorncombe | 687 | Village |
| 26 | Chideock | 686 | Village |
| 27 | Portesham | 685 | |
| 28 | Whitchurch Canonicorum | 684 | Village |
| 29 | Osmington | 673 | Village |
| 30 | Piddletrenthide | 647 | Village |
| 31 | Buckland Newton | 622 | Village |
| 32 | Mosterton | 604 | Village |
| 33 | Stratton | 592 | Village |
| 34 | Halstock | 546 | Village |
| 35 | Frampton | 524 | Village |
| 36 | Loders | 518 | Village |
| 37 | Bincombe | 514 | Village or hamlet |
| 38 | Cattistock | 509 | Village |
| 39 | Abbotsbury | 481 | Large village |
| 40 | Leigh | 480 | Village |
| 41 | Longburton | 470 | Village |
| 42 | Owermoigne | 467 | Village |
| 43 | Puncknowle | 466 | Village |
| 44 | Tolpuddle | 452 | Small village |
| 45 | Corscombe | 445 | Village |
| 46 | Sydling St Nicholas | 414 | Village |
| 47 | Piddlehinton | 403 | Village |
| 48 | Bishop's Caundle | 398 | Small village |
| 49 | Shipton Gorge | 381 | Village |
| 50 | West Knighton | 375 | Village |
| 51 | Bradford Peverell | 370 | Village |
| 52 | Holwell | 369 | Village |
| 53 | South Perrott | 367 | Village |
| 54 | Litton Cheney | 359 | Village |
| 55 | Powerstock | 358 | Village |
| 56 | Winterbourne Abbas | 355 | Village |
| 57 | Marshwood | 346 | Village |
| 58 | Wootton Fitzpaine | 345 | Village |
| 59 | Chetnole | 344 | Village |
| 60 | Holnest | 342 | Village |
| 61 | Folke | 339 | Parish/hamlet |
| 62= | Evershot | 334 | Village |
| 62= | Stinsford | 334 | Village |
| 64 | Nether Compton | 328 | Village |
| 65 | Hilfield | 324 | Hamlet |
| 66 | Trent | 317 | Village |
| 67 | Toller Porcorum | 307 | Village |
| 68 | Winterbourne Steepleton | 297 | Village |
| 69 | Cheselbourne | 296 | Village |
| 70 | West Stafford | 291 | Village |
| 71 | Dewlish | 284 | Village |
| 72 | Langton Herring | 240 | Village |
| 73 | Stoke Abbott | 238 | Village |
| 74 | Tincleton | 236 | Village |
| 75 | Purse Caundle | 221 | Village |
| 76 | Long Bredy | 208 | Village |
| 77 | Melbury Osmond | 199 | Village |
| 78 | Wynford Eagle | 186 | Hamlet |
| 79 | Minterne Magna | 184 | Village |
| 80 | Over Compton | 183 | Village |
| 81 | Sandford Orcas | 180 | Village |
| 82 | Alton Pancras | 175 | Small village |
| 83 | Winterborne Herringston | 174 | (no article) |
| 84 | Frome St. Quintin | 171 | Village |
| 85 | Rampisham | 163 | Village |
| 86 | Warmwell | 161 | Hamlet |
| 87 | Hooke | 157 | Small village |
| 88 | Godmanstone | 156 | Village |
| 89 | Castleton | 155 | Civil parish |
| 90 | Askerswell | 154 | Small village |
| 91 | Frome Vauchurch | 149 | Parish / hamlet |
| 92 | Melcombe Horsey | 141 | Village |
| 93 | Poyntington | 128 | Village |
| 94 | Littlebredy | 121 | Small village |
| 95 | Burstock | 120 | Village |
| 96 | Ryme Intrinseca | 115 | Village |
| 97 | Swyre | 102 | Village |
| 98 | Oborne | 101 | Village |
| 99-138 | Athelhampton, Batcombe, Beer Hackett, Bettiscombe, Burleston, Catherston Leweston, Caundle Marsh, Chedington, Chilcombe, Chilfrome, Clifton Maybank, Compton Valence, East Chelborough, Fleet, Goathill, Haydon, Hermitage, Kingston Russell, Leweston, Lillington, Mapperton, Melbury Bubb, Melbury Sampford, Nether Cerne, North Poorton, North Wootton, Pilsdon, Poxwell, Seaborough, Stanton St. Gabriel, Stockwood, Toller Fratrum, Up Cerne, West Chelborough, West Compton, Whitcombe, Winterborne Came, Winterborne Monkton, Woodsford, Wraxall | 100 or less (no data) | The smallest parishes, described as: Village - 3 Small village - 7 Very small village - 1 Hamlet - 14 Other - 7 Redirect - 2 |
- I had previously considered these IP edits to be the actions of a local resident who wasn't looking at the wider picture, hence my construction of the above table and my numerous attempts on the different IP talk pages to direct the editor to this page. A closer look at the article history however reveals something more disruptive. The first insertion of "small" was made by a registered editor on 25 July 2012 (here). An inspection of that editor's own talk page is illuminating, as is the edit they made here. Back to the history of this article, on 16 April 2013 an IP editor who geolocates to Calne in Wiltshire at first changed the 2001 Census population figure from 708 to 4 (see here), then almost immediately completely removed the whole sentence about the village's population (here). Subsequently a number of different IPs, geolocating to several towns in Wiltshire or Hampshire, have repeatedly inserted "small" and sometimes also removed the sourced sentence about the parish of Portesham being quite large:
- 5 May 2013: Diff Geolocates to Winchester, Hampshire.
- 11 June 2013: Diff Geolocates to Marlborough, Wiltshire.
- 13 June 2013: Diff and Diff Geolocates to Winchester, Hampshire.
- 14 June 2013 Diff Same IP as for 13 June
- 20 June 2013 Diff Geolocates to Marlborough, Wiltshire.
- 22 June 2013 Diff Geolocates to Salisbury, Wiltshire. This edit also changed "West Dorset administrative district" to "South Dorset administrative district", which doesn't actually exist.
- 24 June 2013 Diff Geolocates to Calne, Wiltshire.
- 6 July 2013 Diff Geolocates to Salisbury, Wiltshire.