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Kimmeridge Dorset Map

Traditional county: Dorset · Region: South West

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Place	Kimmeridge
Traditional County	Dorset
Region	South West
Country	England, United Kingdom

Latitude	50.616110
Longitude	-2.120839
Place Type	Village

About Kimmeridge

Kimmeridge reveals itself through the salt-crusted silence of a coastline where the shale cliffs lean precariously toward the grey, churning English Channel. It lies 4.9 miles south of Wareham (from Wareham: bearing 186°T, OS grid SY 915 796), and is situated south-west of Church Knowle village. Above the shoreline, the austere elegance of Smedmore House gazes across fields that have been shaped by centuries of agricultural endurance and the peculiar, dark legacy of oil shale extraction. The air here holds a sharp, brine-heavy clarity, often carrying the distant echo of waves breaking against the industrial remnants of the old jetties and breakwaters that once defined the local economy. Visitors might wander toward the Museum of Jurassic Marine Life to contemplate the fossilised remnants of creatures that swam these waters long before the land took its present form. Beyond the immediate reach of the shore, the landscape rises into the firm, rounded shoulders of Smedmore Hill, which guards the horizon like a silent sentinel of chalk and grass. Kimmeridge remains a place where the light shifts with a sudden, restless intensity, turning the sea into a sheet of hammered pewter against the sombre cliffs. The rhythm of the tide dictates the slow, deliberate pulse of the day, leaving the earth damp and smelling of ancient, compressed carbon.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Museum of Jurassic Marine Life (Museum) — 0.2 mi, 018° NNE
Smedmore Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 0.6 mi, 092° E
Fine Foundation Marine Centre (Attraction) — 0.6 mi, 218° SW
The Harp Stone (Scheduled Monument) — 0.7 mi, 038° NE
Alum Works, Other Multi-Period Industrial Remains And An Associated Group Of Jetties And Breakwaters, Kimmeridge Bay (Scheduled Monument) — 0.7 mi, 212° SSW · 2 ha
Smedmore House (Attraction) — 0.7 mi, 131° SE
Steeple Manor (Historic Park or Garden) — 0.9 mi, 350° N · 2 ha
Charnel (Wetland) — 1.1 mi, 244° WSW
Iron Age Settlement And Associated Field System On Smedmore Hill (Scheduled Monument) — 1.2 mi, 092° E · 10 ha
Ridgeway Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 1.3 mi, 000° N
Grange Arch (Monument) — 1.4 mi, 352° N
Purbeck Ridge (West) Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.5 mi, 332° NNW · 145 ha
Great Wood (Forest / Woodland) — 1.5 mi, 340° NNW
Creech Grange Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.6 mi, 353° N
Encombe (Historic Park or Garden (Grade II*)) — 2.1 mi, 114° ESE · 337 ha
South Gwyle (Valley) — 2.2 mi, 125° SE
Tyneham (Museum) — 2.2 mi, 281° W
Gwyle Cottages (Historic Ruins) — 2.2 mi, 281° W
Tyneham Post Office (Historic Ruins) — 2.2 mi, 282° WNW
Tyneham School (Museum) — 2.2 mi, 282° WNW
Blue Pool (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.6 mi, 029° NNE
Mare Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.6 mi, 337° NNW
Corfe Common (Park) — 2.9 mi, 073° ENE
Pool Pond (Lake / Reservoir) — 3.0 mi, 325° NW
Luckford Lake (River) — 3.1 mi, 307° NW
Corfe Castle Model Village (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 061° ENE
Corfe Castle Town Trust Museum (Museum) — 3.2 mi, 061° ENE
Corfe Castle (Castle) — 3.2 mi, 059° ENE
Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum (Museum) — 3.3 mi, 052° NE
Cow Corner (Wetland) — 3.4 mi, 277° W

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