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There are great quarries up there on the high heathland, sources of notable varieties of Purbeck stone, mostly pale grey, although the beds of stone vary; some yield what is known as Purbeck marble, which can be highly polished and forms the slender dark columns in Salisbury cathedral, while others lend themselves to being split to make the roof tiles that are a local feature in cottages and mansions.
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View from Kingston towards Corfe Castle surrounded by early morning mist on the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset.
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In fact you are entering Purbeck, known as an island, but really a peninsula bounded on two sides by the sea.
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It already has 240 spider and hundreds of insect species, including a subspecies of the rare silver-studded blue butterfly and the Purbeck mason wasp which even appears on a set of stamps of endangered British insects issued by Royal Mail in 2008.
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Looking down from our ridge and to the east, we had seen, far below, Corfe Castle and its village in miniature, shades of ancient, pale grey Purbeck stone blending with the landscape.
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After landing, we took the boardwalk through the reed beds, climbed the pine hills on a carpet of cones looking for red squirrels, and gazed across Purbeck and the harbour, all the while with the sense of being apart, and on an island – albeit one that lies only a stone's throw from the affluence of the Sandbanks waterfront properties.
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Tyneham a small parish in the Isle of Purbeck 6 miles south-west of Corfe Castle and 7 miles from Wareham is Dorsets 'most famous lost village.
Archive 2008-07-01 The Nag 2008
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The altar-stone, once thought to be porphyry, is more likely to be a variety of Purbeck marble.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Inside, the limestone is contrasted with the slender Purbeck marble shafts creating an austere beauty uplifting the gaze.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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I only recently discovered, two years ago that Enid's books are set around the Isle of Purbeck, the faded sea side glory that is Swannage, you have to put a year ahead to get in a the YHA there!
Blyton Rocks juliette 2009
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