Seatown
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The coast at Seatown is part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The surrounding area is also designated part of the Dorset National Landscape. Golden Cap, the highest point on the south coast of England, lies Script error: No such module "convert". to the west.
Seatown comprises a small number of houses, a holiday park, some holiday cottages and a pub. The small River Winniford or Wynreford[1] runs into the sea here. Seatown beach is popular with fossil collectors, with rock of Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous. The beach is privately owned; access to it is free, but there is a charge for car parking.
'Furmity'—a mix of wheat, dried fruit and sugar, often with added spirits—was one of the products sold at a Whit Monday Fair which used to be held in Seatown.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The current Anchor Inn and the neighbouring cottages are rebuildings of their earlier equivalents which had been destroyed in the Great Storm of 1824.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Notable residents
- Hugh Stoker, angling author
References
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External links
- Seatown (Dorset) Fossils Discovering Fossils.
- Dorset Beaches: West Dorset: Seatown Dorset Beaches. Newsquest Media Group.
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