Where is durdle beach

The rock feature of Durdle Door is around feet tall, so get ready to be impressed! In the summer months you can swim on the beach but be careful, the beach shelves steeply in places and there are no lifeguards.

With this in mind please supervise children. Dogs are allowed on the beach at Durdle Door year round, but do pick up after them and keep our coastline clean :. The best postcode to use is BH20 5PU. Durdle Door can be accessed by the South West Coast path, a short and beautiful walk from Lulworth Cove where there is ample parking.

Secondly, some of the beds have been cut out by faulting; and thirdly, the area around Durdle Door seems to have had shallower water at the time of deposition than comparable geological sections, so thinner bands of sediments were deposited. Erosion at the western end of the limestone band has resulted in the arch formation. The metre ft isthmus which joins the limestone to the chalk is made of a metre ft band of Portland limestone, a narrow and compressed band of Cretaceous Wealden clays and sands, and then narrow bands of Greensand and sandstone.

Similarly, offshore to the west, the eroded limestone outcrop forms a line of small rocky islets called from east to west The Bull, The Blind Cow, The Cow, and The Calf. As the coastline in this area is generally an eroding landscape, the cliffs are subject to occasional rockfalls and landslides; a particularly large slide occurred just to the east of Durdle Door in April , resulting in destruction of part of the South West Coast Path. Call Us: Durdle Door This perfectly-carved limestone arc just west of Lulworth is perhaps one of the most beautiful naturally-forming rocks in the country.

A 'back view' of the Durdle Door promontory from the east, showing the visible remnants of the more resistant strata in Man O'War Bay The limestone and chalk are in closer proximity at Durdle Door than at Swanage, 10 miles 16 km to the east, where the distance is over 2 miles 3 km. See Other Attractions:.

The walk between the two sites takes 30 minutes up and down a steep, but spectacular, walking path. Durdle Door is part of Lulworth Estate , which is owned and managed by the Weld family. The Lulworth Rangers operate out of the Lulworth Cove Visitor Centre and are responsible for conservation and visitor management across the estate. Durdle Door is best accessed by car, by turning at Winfrith Newburgh if driving from the west, or at Holmebridge shortly after Wareham if driving from the east.

Taxis to Durdle Door are available from Wool station. For further information, visit our Travel page. It is a 15 minute walk down a steep path then steps from the car park to the beach. Good footwear not flip flops is essential. Please be aware that there a no toilets on or adjacent to the beach at Durdle Door. The nearest available toilets are in the holiday park. Although Durdle Door beach is accessed by a steep path and steps, the viewpoint from the clifftop can be accessed by all terrain wheelchairs.

There are also accessible toilets available in the holiday park. Bathing at Durdle Door can be dangerous. The beach shelves steeply and there is a strong under-tow. This has caused fatalities in the past. We recommend staying at Durdle Door Holiday Park , located within easy walking distance of the coastline.

For a comprehensive list of local options, visit our Accommodation page. Further afield are the incredible geological formations of Worbarrow Bay and the eerie abandoned village of Tyneham. To the west are the coastal hamlets of Osmington Mills and Ringstead.

We will update our website when more information is known. Nearby Lulworth Cove Visitor Centre is typically available for school and other education groups, with a range of learning topics available. Around 25 million years ago the African tectonic plate collided with the European plate. The huge pressures generated heaved and folded rocks to create the mountain chain we know as the Alps.

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