This is the first in an ongoing series of blogs by Colin Bentley, who will be creating the Jurassic Coast Art Project over the next three years, in close collaboration with the Jurassic Coast Trust. The sea has always been a major part of my life, and painting the coastline is an important aspect of my…
Anyone who’s ever been to the Netherlands will have been hit by one overwhelming impression: boy is that country flat! You can often see for miles and miles, with rows of trees providing the odd ‘break’ in the landscape. And although the country has almost 300 miles of coast, because the Netherlands effectively formed itself…
Scientists from the British Geological Survey (BGS) and University of Southampton have published a seamless onshore-offshore bedrock geology map of the eastern half of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. This is the first time a map of this resolution has been published for the seabed in this area, and it will undoubtedly play an…