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Article (of sorts) about the Fleet/Chesil, Dorset
This is primarily for Carol, but anyone else is welcome to have a look...
http://www.dorsetlife.co.uk/2013/11/the-dorset-walk-1-langton-herring-and-moonfleet/
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[quote= Dorset Life]Walk extremely cautiously on the right-hand side of the road down the hill[/quote] Were the authors en-route on an occasion when my car happened to be piloted along this rat-run commuter road?
Carol, and others, might prefer traversing these, slightly safer, expeditions.
http://www.dorsetcamper.com/guided_walks.html
http://www.southwestcoastpath.com/walksdb/322/
Enjoy.
I see there's an article on Tyneham in this issue, one of my favourite places. Completely unreal and totally lost in time now, and if it hadn't been left so precipitately it could have become just another village that the locals couldn't afford. In a way, it's still theirs because it can't be anyone else's. Fascinating. I'm going to write a novel based there one of these days.
It's memorable to me for the incredibly loud noise of the waves rolling and pushing and sucking at the stones and rocks on the beach so much so that, if you closed your eyes, it sounded like an enormous sporting arena full of people applauding. I've never heard anything quite like it.
You can close your eyes and you could be on that beach in any time period in history.
It goes for miles.
[quote=Carol]that bit is not as good as the bit between Weymouth and Abbotsbury[/quote]
The Chesil Bank is much longer than folk may realise.
It is possible {although very strenuous} to walk its eighteen miles between Portland and West Bay, Bridport; has been scientifically measured to move and is claimed to be a wonder of the world.
http://www.chesilbeach.org/
Include adjoining villages, scenery and attractions, a summer camping holiday could be filled by tour of its length.
A further week might continue west through fossil 'fields' and rocky escarpments to Lyme Regis.
Family entertainment, Carol, whilst you soak more inspiration for that historical romance you are scribing.
{Maybe Baggy Books was endeavouring to supply the ambience without need for the physical trek.}