Seatown
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Seatown is a coastal hamlet in Dorset, England, on the English Channel approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west-southwest of Bridport. It lies within the civil parish of Chideock.
The coast at Seatown is part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The surrounding area is also designated part of the Dorset National Landscape. Golden Cap, the highest point on the south coast of England, lies 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west.
Seatown comprises a small number of houses, a holiday park, some holiday cottages and a pub. The small River Winniford or Wynreford[1] runs into the sea here. Seatown beach is popular with fossil collectors, with rock of Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous. The beach is privately owned; access to it is free, but there is a charge for car parking.
'Furmity'—a mix of wheat, dried fruit and sugar, often with added spirits—was one of the products sold at a Whit Monday Fair which used to be held in Seatown.[citation needed]
The current Anchor Inn and the neighbouring cottages are rebuildings of their earlier equivalents which had been destroyed in the Great Storm of 1824.[citation needed]
![The rebuilt Anchor Inn and rebuilt neighbouring cottages at Seatown, Dorset, England.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Seatown_Anchor_Inn.jpg/220px-Seatown_Anchor_Inn.jpg)
Notable residents
- Hugh Stoker, angling author
References
- ^ Roland Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. pp. 123–4. ISBN 0 7091 8135 3.
External links
- Seatown (Dorset) Fossils Discovering Fossils.
- Dorset Beaches: West Dorset: Seatown Dorset Beaches. Newsquest Media Group.
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