Kimmeridge
Wareham
BH20 5PG
England
Telephone – Tel & fax (01929) 480702
GPS co-ordinates
Latitude: 50.60805, Longitude: -2.10922
Opening Dates
1 May to 26 Oct
Escape to an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty that includes part of the World Heritage Coastline. The site is an open, sloping field surrounded by farmland. It has views to the Sea and Clavell Tower on one side and the Purbeck Hills on the other. Kimmeridge Bay (also part of the Smedmore Estate) is famous for fossils, fascinating geological strata and rock pools. There is wind surfing and diving on the ledges and a slipway for boats alongside the Dorset Wildlife Trust’s Fine Marine Centre, which is open to the public.
Many people stay at the site for its walking opportunities as the Dorset Coastal Path runs close by. For the avid explorer there is the wartime-abandoned village of Tyneham on M.O.D land. In a north westerly wind, the distant tank fire on the ranges is the only intrusion to this otherwise peaceful rural area.
