A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Purbeck, Isle of, peninsula, in SE. of Dorset, bounded S. and E. by the English Channel, N. by Poole harbour and river Frome, and W. by the Luckford stream (which rises in Lulworth Park); is 12 miles long by 7 miles broad, and is traversed E. and W. by a lofty range of chalk hills; contains, in the centre, Corfe Castle, and on the E. coast Swanage, in the neighbourhood of which lie upwards of 60 quarries of Purbeck stone, a kind of limestone susceptible of a good polish. The Purbeck beds are of great interest to geologists. The Isle of Purbeck was at one time a royal deer forest.
(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))
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| Feature Description: | "peninsula" (ADL Feature Type: "capes") |
| Administrative units: | Dorset AncC |
| Place names: | ISLE OF PURBECK | PURBECK | PURBECK ISLE OF |
| Place: | Purbeck |
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