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Take a Walk on the Gentle Side of the Jurassic Coast

Sarah Acton is the Jurassic Coast’s poet-in-residence. She is exploring the poetry of East Devon and West Dorset as part of a residency spanning the Jurassic Coastline, taking inspiration from natural landmarks and earth history, and working with local museums, schools, and other organisations along the way to create a body of site-specific poetry. Actively…

Jack Rattenbury – The “Rob Roy of the West”

The East Devon village of Beer, with its magnificent white cliffs (the last in England going west), is a classic example of where geology has impacted on the life, culture and history of its inhabitants. Beer Head, formed from Late Cretaceous chalk, is harder than the surrounding red Triassic cliffs of East Devon.  This resistance…