In the top row of pictures:

• Descending Flower's Barrow (Iron Age hillfort), the view westwards across Mupe Bay to the Isle of Portland (picture)
• Arish Mell and range warning notice (picture)
• Ascending Bindon Hill (picture)
• Ascending Hambury Tout, the view back eastwards past West Lulworth to Flower's Barrow (above the chalk cliffs) (picture)
• From Hambury Tout the view westwards, St Oswald's Bay in the foreground, top of Durdle Door beyond (picture)

In the bottom row of pictures:

• From Hambury Tout the view eastwards, Lulworth Cove with Bindon Hill to the left (picture)
• Lulworth Cove (picture)
• Part of the Fossil Forest; these stromatolites date from the Upper Jurassic (135 million years ago) and are the fossilised remains of algae and other encrustations that formed around the trunks of trees submerged in hypersaline waters (picture)
• Mupe Rocks – the eastwards continuation of the hard limestone beds that form the mouth of Lulworth Cove and the fossil forest. Inshore from the limestones, the softer greensand and chalk beds. (picture)
• Mupe Bay, the sea milky white with particles of chalk washed from the cliffs (picture)

Other sites on the web

If you intend to walk along the coast between Lulworth Cove and Kimmeridge then check the Defence Estates web page first for details regarding access to this part of the coast.

West's Geology Field Guide to the Lulworth area

The coastline shown here forms part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site

The Dorset Page:   Lulworth Cove, East Lulworth, West Lulworth – local information and links to further resources on the web

Maps of the area on streetmap.co.uk:   1:50,000 – detail, 1:250,000 – locality and route to get there

The pictures of Lulworth in this gallery were captured at high resolution.
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All photographs copyright © 1998–2003 John Allen