The Dorset and East Devon coast owes its unique character to the underlying geology and the erosional processes acting upon it.

West Bay is a holiday resort with a small harbour, located on the West Dorset coast at the western end of the Chesil Bank.

The beautiful coastal town of Lyme Regis, often described as ‘the Pearl of Dorset’, is surrounded by spectacular clay cliffs of Lower Jurassic age, capped by younger Cretaceous sandstone.

The village of Chiswell lies at the point where the massive bank of Chesil Beach joins the Isle of Portland to the mainland of Dorset.