Treasures of Dorset – Anvil Point lighthouse
Published in April ’22
Sailing off Anvil Point, Purbeck, Dorset, UK
Picture: Steve Belasco/jurassicphotographic.com
THE lighthouse stands in Durlston Country Park, the 320-acre nature reserve to the south of Swanage which has been owned by Dorset Council for the last fifty years. It is a walk of about half a mile from the car park at Durlston Castle, either along a tarmac lane or via a rather more challenging cliff path.
The lighthouse was built from stone quarried locally and opened in 1881 by the then President of the Board of Trade, Joseph Chamberlain, father of…
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