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Chesil Beach, sometimes called Chesil Bank, is a tombolo in Dorset, southern England. A tombolo is a deposition Landform such as a spit or bar which is attached to the mainland by a narrow piece of land Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The shingle beach is 29 kilometres (18 mi) long, 200 metres (660 ft) wide and 15 metres (50 ft) high. The beach and the Fleet are part of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and the location for a book ("On Chesil Beach") by Ian McEwan. The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site on the English Channel coast of southern England. United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established on November 16 A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a site (such as a Forest, Mountain, Lake, Desert, Monument, Building, complex On Chesil Beach (ISBN 0385522401 is a 2007 Novel by the Booker Prize -winning British writer Ian McEwan. Ian McEwan, CBE, FRSA, FRSL, (born June 21, 1948) is a Booker Prize -winning English Novelist
At the end of the beach next to the Isle of Portland, the beach curves round sharply to form Chesil Cove. The Isle of Portland ( is a limestone tied island long by wide in the English Channel. Chesil Cove is a beach which is the most southerly part of the long Chesil Beach in Dorset, England. This part of the beach protects the low lying village of Chiswell from flooding. Chiswell (pronounced Chesil Chis-well or Chisel sometimes called Chesilton is a small fishing Village at the southern end of Chesil Beach, in Underhill
The beach provides shelter from the prevailing winds and waves for the town of Weymouth and the village of Chiswell, which would otherwise probably not exist. The prevailing winds are the trends in speed and direction of Wind over a particular point on the Earth 's surface A wave is a disturbance that propagates through Space and Time, usually with transference of Energy. Weymouth (ˈweɪməθ is a town in Dorset, England situated on a sheltered bay at the mouth of the River Wey on the English Channel coast Chiswell (pronounced Chesil Chis-well or Chisel sometimes called Chesilton is a small fishing Village at the southern end of Chesil Beach, in Underhill
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The Fleet Lagoon
From West Bay to Cliff End the beach is piled up against the cliff. Abbotsbury Castle is an Iron Age Hill fort in south west Dorset, England, situated on Wears Hill above the village of Abbotsbury West Bay, formerly known as Bridport Harbour, is situated approximately two miles from the centre of Bridport on the Jurassic Coast in Dorset At Cliff End a hollow forms behind the beach and at Abbotsbury a stretch of saline (or brackish) water called the Fleet lagoon begins. Salinity is the Saltiness or dissolved salt content of a body of Water. A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow salt or Brackish water separated from the deeper Sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank, coral The Fleet is home to many wading birds and Abbotsbury Swannery, and fossils can be found in the sand and mud. Abbotsbury Swannery is the only managed colony of nesting mute Swans in the world FOSSIL is a standard protocol for allowing serial communication for Telecommunications programs under the DOS Operating system.
Because of the low population density of nearby areas and their proximity to the naval base on Portland, the beach and the Fleet were used for machine gun training and bouncing bomb testing for Operation Chastise in World War II. For other uses of the phrase see Machine Gun (disambiguation. A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed specifically to bounce to a target such as across water to avoid Torpedo nets Unlike Skip bombing, which uses conventional Operation Chastise was the official name for the attacks on German Dams on 17 May 1943 in the Second World War using a specially developed " World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including
Both Chesil Beach and the Fleet Lagoon are a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and the view of the beach from Abbotsbury has been voted by Country Life magazine as Britain's third best view. A Site of Special Scientific Interest or SSSI is a Conservation designation denoting a Protected area in the United Kingdom.
Origin
The origin of Chesil Beach has been argued over for some time. This article is about a village in England For the suburb in Sydney Australia see Abbotsbury New South Wales Abbotsbury is a large Village Originally it was believed that beach material was from the Budleigh Salterton pebble beds to the west and later from Portland to the south east. Budleigh Salterton is a small Town on the south coast of Devon, England approximately 15 miles south of Exeter. The differences between the pebbles on the beach and nearby sources is now put down to the Flandrian isostatic sea level rise, so the feature could also be considered a barrier beach or bar, that happens to connect the mainland to an island rather than a 'true' tombolo. The Flandrian interglacial or stage is the name given by Geologists and Archaeologists in the British Isles to the first and so far only stage of the Isostasy (Greek isos = "equal" stásis = "standstill" is a term used in Geology to refer to the state of gravitational equilibrium between the A shoal or sandbar (also called sandbank) is a somewhat Linear Landform within or extending into a body of Water, A tombolo is a deposition Landform such as a spit or bar which is attached to the mainland by a narrow piece of land Normally, tombolos are created due to the effects of the island on waves (through refraction) and to sediment transport, which usually produces a beach perpendicular to the mainland rather than parallel to it. Refraction is the change in direction of a Wave due to a change in its Speed.
See also
Photographs
- Weymouth Pictures - Chesil & Portland
- Chesil Beach Photographs
- South West Coast Path, showing shingle grading
- Chesil Beach Group on Flickr
External links
- Website for Chesil Beach and a number of associated organisations
- Southampton University - Information and Photos
- Denver University - Overview
- Fleet Study Group
- Chesil Beach & The Fleet Special Protection Area
- The Fleet Observer - A Local Charity site providing information on the area
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