Abbotsbury

Though Portland stands a league off from the mainland of Britain, yet it is almost joined by a prodigious riff of beach -- that is to say, of small stones cast up by the sea -- which runs from the island so near the shore of England that they ferry over with a boat and a rope, the water not being above half a stone's-throw over; and the said riff of beach ending, as it were, at that inlet of water, turns away west, and runs parallel with the shore quite to Abbotsbury, which is a town about seven miles beyond Weymouth.

From London to Land's End and Two Letters from the "Journey through England by a Gentleman" Daniel Defoe 1696

From Abbotsbury, it's only a 20-minute drive to the village of Wyke Regis and Chesil beach.

Love is in the (open) air Nell Card 2010

Thirty minutes from here on the Abbotsbury to Bridport road, you'll see a lonesome, 14th-century chapel high on a hillside.

Love is in the (open) air Nell Card 2010

There are two well exhibited main features of the structural geology of the site, east-west trending extensional faults (the Abbotsbury-Ridgeway Fault and the Purbeck Fault), that have undergone contractional reactivation.

Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom 2008

The surrounding countryside and local villages, are beautiful - Abbotsbury, Bridport and Lullworth Cove of course.

In Dorset... Joanna Bogle 2008

The oldest extant charter of a guild dates from the reign of Canute, and from this we learn that a certain Orcy presented a guild-hall gegyld-halle to the gyldschipe of Abbotsbury in Dorset, and that the members were associated in almsgiving, care of the sick, burial of the dead, and in providing Masses for the souls of deceased members.

The Guilds 2007

And now we came to Abbotsbury, a town anciently famous for a great monastery, and now eminent for nothing but its ruins.

From London to Land's End 2003

And now we came to Abbotsbury, a town anciently famous for a great monastery, and now eminent for nothing but its ruins.

From London to Land's End 2003

A lot of driving for a little holiday well, a weekend really but fun -- spent the afternoon in Abbotsbury today, which was very picturesque and allowed us to stretch legs and so forth quite nicely.

Back from Dorset jinty 2003

And now we came to Abbotsbury, a town anciently famous for a great monastery, and now eminent for nothing but its ruins.

From London to Land's End 2003