Deer in a Day with Land & Wave in Swanage, Dorset
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Paddle Boarding in Swanage Bay
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Coasteering in Dorset with Land & Wave at Dancing Ledge, Dorset
Coasteering in Dorset with Land & Wave! The best day you can have in a wetsuit and helmet! We still haven't stopped smiling. Thanks to Land & Wave, especially Paul for a fantastic afternoon.
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Bushcraft for Kids in Dorset - Land & Wave
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Body Boarding with Land & Wave Surf in Swanage Bay
Body Boarding in Swanage, Dorset with Land & Wave
Graham being an absolute hero paddle boarding in Swanage
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Climbing at Hedbury Quarry
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Coasteering in Dorset with Land and Wave
Coasteering along the Dorset coastline on Land and Wave's extreme / power course, with lots of cliff jumping and exploring sea caves.
Land & Wave Kayaking 2014
A days journey from Studland to Swanage beach on the Land & Wave accelerated instructor course 2014 along with some pool based roll work.
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Canoeing the Piddle near Wareham with Land and Wave
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Isle of Purbeck, Corfe Castle, Swanage, Dorset England, ( 1 )
Corfe Castle, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset. I love this small Dorset village, and the Castle dating from the 11th Century. Every person that visits Dorset should not miss this traditional stone built village. It is beautiful. The name Corfe means a pass in Old English. Corfe Castle was built on a steep chalk hill created by two streams eroding the rock either side. The construction of the medieval castle means that little is known about previous activity on the hill. However, there are postholes belonging to a Saxon hall on the site. The dramatic ruins of Corfe Castle stand on a natural hill guarding the principal route through the Purbeck Hills. As you can see it guards the gap between the south of Purbeck, where Purbeck marble was once quarried, and the rest of England. Nothing could pass in or out without going past the Castle.
Corfe Castle is a fortification standing above the village of the same name in the English county of Dorset. Built by William the Conqueror, the castle dates back to the 11th century and commands a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage. The first phase was one of the earliest castles in England to be built using stone when the majority were built with earth and timber. Corfe Castle underwent major structural changes in the 12th and 13th centuries. In 1572, Corfe Castle left the Crown's control when Elizabeth I sold it to Sir Christopher Hatton. Sir John Bankes bought the castle in 1635, and was the owner during the English Civil War. His wife, Lady Mary Bankes, led the defence of the castle when it was twice besieged by Parliamentarian forces. The first siege, in 1643, was unsuccessful, but by 1645 Corfe was one of the last remaining royalist strongholds in southern England and fell to a siege ending in an assault. In March that year Corfe Castle was demolished on Parliament's orders. Owned by the National Trust, the castle is open to the public and in 2010 received around 190,000 visitors. It is protected as a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. A castle was founded at Corfe near England's south coast soon after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The royal forest of Purbeck, where William the Conqueror enjoyed hunting, was established in the area. Between 1066 and 1087 William established 36 castles such in England. Sitting as it does on a hill top, Corfe Castle is one of the classic images of a medieval castle, however despite popular imagination occupying the highest point in the landscape was not the typical position of a medieval castle. In England, a minority are located on hilltops while most are in valleys; many were near important transport routes such as river crossings.
Unusually for castles built in the 11th century, Corfe was partially constructed from stone indicating it was of particularly high status. A stone wall was built around the hill top, creating an inner ward or enclosure. There were two further enclosures: one to the west, and one that extended south ( the outer bailey ) in contrast to the inner bailey, these were surrounded by palisades made from timber. At the time the vast majority of castles in England were built using earth and timber, and it was not until the 12th century that many began to be rebuilt in stone. The Domesday Book records one castle in Dorset; the entry, which reads Of the manor of Kingston the King has one hide on which he built Wareham castle, is thought to refer to Corfe rather than the timber castle at Wareham. There are 48 castles directly mentioned in the Domesday Book, although not all those in existence at the time were recorded. Assuming that Corfe is the castle in question, it is one of four the Domesday Book attributes to William the Conqueror; the survey explicitly mentions seven people as having built castles, of which William was the most prolific.
In the 1980's, Ralph Bankes bequeathed the entire Bankes estate to the National Trust, including Corfe Castle, much of the village of Corfe, the family home at Kingston Lacy, and substantial property and land holdings elsewhere in the area. In the summer 2006, the dangerous condition of the keep caused it to be closed to visitors, who could only visit the walls and inner bailey. The National Trust undertook an extensive conservation project on the castle, and the keep was re-opened to visitors in 2008, and the work completed the following year. During the restoration work, an appearance door was found in the keep, designed for Henry I. The National Trust claims that this indicates that the castle would have been one of the most important in England at the time. T
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Coasteering (Cliff Jumping) - Dancing Ledge, Dorset - GoPro Hero4 Session
A day out Coasteering at Dancing Ledge, near Swanage in Dorset.
For my 30th birthday, 13 of us decided it'd be a good idea to traverse cliffs and jump off them - what followed was an adrenaline-fueled afternoon that'll never be forgotten!
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Coasteering in Dorset with Land and Wave - GoPro HD
Coasteering in Dorset, England for Katie's 30th Birthday courtesy of Kerry and Alex
Coasteering Dancing Ledge, Dorset, UK
Couple of hours coasteering on the stunning Jurassic Coast of Dorset.
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Huge landslide opens a 900ft crack along a cliff on the Jurassic Coast after thousands...
Huge landslide opens a 900ft crack along a cliff on the Jurassic Coast after thousands of tons of earth suddenly give way and drop 'like an elevator'.
A huge landslide has opened up a giant 900ft crevice along a cliff - dramatically changing the face of Britain's famous Jurassic Coast.
The colossal crack emerged in the land's edge at Bowleaze Cove near Weymouth, Dorset, after thousands of tons of earth suddenly gave way following heavy rainfall.
One walker was photographed standing just 50ft away from the giant 'unstable' chasm, which is 4ft wide and 6ft deep in places.
It has almost cut the land in two and officials have been forced to close a footpath on the side of the crack as it is feared further movement will occur.
Excessive rainfall has led to water seeping through the limestone. That has then mixed with the clay, making it far heavier than before.
With the cliff unable to support the additional weight, the land has eventually broken off and slid towards the sea.
Ian Moore, who runs Howleys toy shop in Weymouth, used a £900 drone to fly over the coastal beauty spot to inspect the landslip from the air.
The coastline - a UNESCO World Heritage site - is prone to landslips due to its geology: a mix of permeable limestone at the top of the cliff and impermeable clay beneath it.
Coastguards are warning people to stay away from the unpredictable area.
Mark Fagg, from Wyke Regis Coastguard, said: 'It is an ongoing thing and large sections will just slump and disappear.
'Our advice is just to give it a wide berth. That whole area is just going to start dropping now, like an elevator, and we will lose another bit of cliff.
'People need to keep dogs on leads and stay away from the edge because it is very unstable.'
This is the latest landslide to hit the Jurassic Coast in recent years.
In 2014, an expensive bungalow west of Lyme Regis in Dorset was left surrounded by hundreds of acres of unstable land after billions of tons of rock and mud gave way.
The homeowners were left with a three-foot crack across the road from their property following the massive landslide.
Residents are used to seeing the Jurassic Coast's sea-cliffs fall spectacularly into the pounding waves - but now cracks and fissures are opening as far as a third of a mile inland.
Ancient sea-cliffs along the coast can be seen perched over 350 feet above the water. The landscape beneath them is merely reacting to gravity when pounded with rain water.
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Episode I: The Bottle Flips Back