These kinds of stones were created out of tightly packed freshwater snail shells from the Isle of Purbeck off the southern coast of England. Amid the Purbeck stones, experts located mortars ...

The ship was found to have been transporting Purbeck stone and marble, a type of dark-colored limestone sourced from southern England that can be polished to give a marble effect. These qualities ...

Hundreds turned out across the south of England for the "whistle-up" to mark ... as well as the Isle of Purbeck, over the past 200 years," he said. Swanage Railway Company chairman Gavin Johns ...

Now Natural England has revealed populations have spread ... Taw, Exe, Little Sea at Purbeck, Dorset, Helman Tor in Cornwall, and the Brue, Somerset. The illegal release of beavers is also a ...

National Trust / John Miller Purbeck National Nature Reserve was ... The area forms part of England's first "super" National Nature Reserve, which was designated in 2020. Dorset Peat Partnership ...