Next door to Harrow House is a special needs boarding school, Purbeck View School, owned by Cambian Education.

The public invented their own stories, including a tale that the sound of digging had been heard near the House of Commons and rumours of a French invasion in the Isle of Purbeck.

The matter was referred to the House of Lords, which unanimously ruled in Rex v Purbeck that no " fine " could allow a peer to dispose of his peerage.

Burt, like his uncle, maintained an interest in Swanage, establishing gas and waterworks, developing the Durlston estate, and lived in a large house called " Purbeck House ", now a hotel, on the main street.

For governmental purposes it lies within the Purbeck local government district, the South Dorset constituency of the House of Commons and the South West England constituency of the European Parliament.

John lived at Westport House in Wareham, now the home of Purbeck District Council.

The granite gate piers at the entrance of Purbeck House, High Street, Swanage in Dorset, and a granite bollard next to the gate, are believed by English Heritage to be from Millbank prison.

A full size reclining copper gilt effigy of the Earl lies upon his Purbeck marble tomb – a fine piece of medieval metalwork cast in 1459.

On 10 May 2007 history was made when the Swanage Railway ’ s permanent connection with Network Rail was used for the first time – four ex-BR diesel locomotives running from Eastleigh down to Swanage to participate in the Purbeck Line ’ s largest ever diesel gala and beer festival in May 2007.

This was formed by reverse reactivation of the Purbeck – Isle of Wight fault zone.

He passed the house on to Robert Villiers, 3rd Viscount Purbeck, who occupied the house for two years ( 1676 – 1678 ).

His remains were interred on the vigil of Pentecost, 1255 under his effigy in full canonicals carved in Purbeck marble under a canopy resting on ten light pillars.

The village and castle stand over a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage.

from Orcombe Point near Exmouth, in the west, to Old Harry Rocks on the Isle of Purbeck, in the east.

It is situated just over half a mile ( 1 km ) inland on the Isle of Purbeck on the English Channel coast, south of Wareham and about west of Swanage.

Studland is a small village on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset.

The Studland and Godlingston Heaths NNR is located on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset.

The buses on these routes are branded as Purbeck Breezers.

A number of Romano-British sites have been discovered and studied on the Isle of Purbeck, including a villa at Bucknowle Farm near Corfe Castle, excavated between 1976 and 1991.

At the extreme southern tip of Purbeck is St Aldhelm's chapel which is Norman work but built on a Pre-Conquest Christian site marked with a circular earthwork and some graves.

* Links to all the Museums on the Isle of Purbeck

from Orcombe Point near Exmouth, in the west, to Old Harry Rocks on the Isle of Purbeck, in the east.

Ballard Down is an area of chalk downland on the Purbeck Hills in the English county of Dorset.

Each side has the lions head design with those on the north and south sides giving water into a Purbeck Marble bowl.

As a young man, he working in the quarries of the Isle of Purbeck: he was reputedly one of the last people to work in the quarry at Tilly Whim and, as a stonemason, on the Isle of Wight.

George grew up in Swanage, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset.

The Old Harry Rocks are two chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England.

Some of the best exposures of the Chalk are where these ranges intersect the coast to produce dramatic, often vertical cliffs as at Flamborough Head, the White Cliffs of Dover, Seven Sisters, Old Harry Rocks ( Purbeck ) and The Needles on the Isle of Wight.

The Jurassic Coast, 153 km long, extends from Orcombe Point near Exmouth in the west, to Old Harry Rocks on the Isle of Purbeck, in the east.

His earlier work comprised a monograph on the Cretaceous bivalve mollusca of Gosau ( 1863-66 ); and an essay on the Tithonian stage ( 1870 ), regarded as equivalent to the Purbeck and Wealden formations.

Langton Matravers is a village on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset in the south of England.

This chalk outcrop runs through the centre of the Island from Culver Cliff in the east to the Needles in the west, and then continues under the sea to the Isle of Purbeck, forming Ballard Cliff ( near Swanage ), Lulworth Cove and Durdle Door.

The Orchard (" Horcerd ") listed in the Domesday Book of 1086, is more likely to refer to " Orchard " near Church Knowle in Purbeck, rather than East and West Orchard.

Durlston Country Park is a 1. 13 square kilometre ( 280-acre ) country park and nature reserve stretching along the coast of the Isle of Purbeck at Durlston near Swanage in Dorset, England.

In July 2010, Dorset County and Purbeck District councils voted to allocate up to £ 3 million over three years, to part-fund re-signalling work by Network Rail ( NR ) at Worgret Junction, which connects the Swanage branch to NR's main line near Wareham.

East Lulworth is a hamlet nine miles east of Dorchester, near Lulworth Cove, in the Purbeck district of Dorset, South West England.

from Orcombe Point near Exmouth, in the west, to Old Harry Rocks on the Isle of Purbeck, in the east

A thick layer of Chert gravel from the Purbeck Strata can be found on Blackdown Hill near Portesham, but it is not known whether it was carried there or whether it is the remains of an earlier deposit.

Tyneham is a ghost village in south Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck.

The Purbeck Hills fork from the Dorset Downs to run on, or near the Jurassic Coast in south east Dorset, where they form part of Lulworth Cove, White Nothe and Old Harry Rocks, some of the many famous landforms on England's only natural World Heritage Site.

Dancing Ledge is part of the Jurassic Coast near Langton Matravers in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England.

The Jurassic Coast stretches over a distance of, from Orcombe Point near Exmouth, in the west, to Old Harry Rocks on the Isle of Purbeck, in the east.

The location was chosen at the suggestion of the producer David Rose, who came from Purbeck: " I told him about the quarries in the district and asked him to film everything out of doors, under the skies ; he reneged only slightly on this condition-there is one sequence of about one minute twenty seconds, in the Greyhound pub near Corfe Castle, and one short scene in a toilet.

Winspit is an old quarry on the cliffs near Worth Matravers in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England that is no longer in use.

from Orcombe Point near Exmouth, in the west, to Old Harry Rocks on the Isle of Purbeck, in the east

The Jurassic Coast stretches over a distance of, from Orcombe Point near Exmouth, in the west, to Old Harry Rocks on the Isle of Purbeck, in the east

The Jurassic Coast stretches over a distance of, from Orcombe Point near Exmouth, in the west, to Old Harry Rocks on the Isle of Purbeck, in the east