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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Corfe Castle, Dorset, River Frome, Dorset, Swanage, Swanage Railway, Brownsea Island, Middlebere Plateway, Studland, St. Aldhelm's Chapel, St. Aldhelm's Head, Corfe Castle railway station, Worth Matravers, Furzebrook Railway, Tyneham, Chapmans Pool, Swanage railway station, Flower's Barrow, Kimmeridge, Gad Cliff, Wytch Farm, Great Globe, The Old Malthouse School, Norden railway station, Arne, Dorset, Brandy Bay, Dorset, Old Harry Rocks, Worbarrow Bay, Durlston Castle, Clavell Tower, Kingston, Purbeck, Tilly Whim Caves, Purbeck Ball Clay, St Alban's Head, Purbeck Marble, Kimmeridge Oil Field, Durlston Country Park, Langton Matravers, Blue Pool, Cow Corner, Anvil Point, Leeson House, Pondfield Cove, Swanage Pier, Harman's Cross railway station, Worbarrow Tout, Dancing Ledge, Church Knowle, Creech Grange, Lulworth Military Range, Ballard Down, Swanage Pier Tramway, Purbeck Monocline, Purbeck Hills, Winspit, Egmont Bight, Swyre Head, Hobarrow Bay, Parson's Barn, Nine Barrow Down, Durlston Bay, Furzebrook, Dorset, Bucknowle Farm, Peveril Point, Arne RSPB reserve, Ridge, Dorset, Lulworth Estate, Belle Vue Quarry, Hen Cliff, Blashenwell Farm Pit, Brenscombe Heath, Acton, Dorset, Stoborough, Stoborough Green. Excerpt: Swanage is a small coastal town in the south east of Dorset, England. It is situated at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck, approximately 10 km south of Poole and 40 km east of Dorchester. The town has a population of 10,124 (2001). Nearby are Ballard Down and Old Harry Rocks, with Studland Bay and Poole Harbour to the north and Durlston Bay and Durlston Country Park to the south. The town, originally a small port and fishing village flourished in the Victorian era, when it first became a significant quarrying port and later a seaside resort for the rich of the day. Today the town remains a popular touris...
