My Jurassic Coast Poetry series has moved onward at the speed of tides to Sidmouth, the last stop for my residency this year. It has been a month of peeling away layers to find what energies lie beneath this well-heeled tourist haven. At the heart of the Regency town’s history I found the patience of…
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TWO ambitious projects are joining forces to create a single world class visitor experience – and bring hundreds of thousands of people to Portland. Jurassica, which aims to celebrate the geological heritage of the Jurassic Coast, will be joining with biodiversity project Memo to create a single visitor experience. And the man behind the world-famous Eden…
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I’m Sarah Acton, the Jurassic Coast’s Poet in Residence, and this month I have been exploring the poetry of Exmouth as part of my East Devon residency series. I’m taking inspiration from each stretch of coastline, and the exhibits within their museums’ collections, to create a body of site-specific poetry. I’ve already explored Beer and…
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Charmouth has been given a mini makeover. The area east of the bridge, known as Evan’s Cliff, has had a new simple seating structure installed, along with a new panel with key information for visitors and locals. The space has been smartened up into a defined circular area which has been kept as low-key and…
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All of us here at the Jurassic Coast Trust are really looking forward to Dippy’s arrival in Dorchester next February. Here are 8 incredible Dippy Facts that you should know before going to visit him in Dorchester! Dippy is a massive skeleton, measuring 21.3 metres in length, and over 4 metres in both width and…
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All of us here at the Jurassic Coast Trust are looking forward to Dippy’s arrival in Dorchester next February, and we’re thrilled to present A History of Dippy for you! Dippy has become so iconic as a fossil specimen, it’s easy to forget that he was once a living dinosaur, some 150 million years ago.…
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The Jurassic Coast Trust has just started on a new and exciting stage in its development having recently taken on the responsibility for looking after the Dorset and East Devon Coast World Heritage Site. Known to one and all as the Jurassic Coast, the Site stretches from Studland Bay in Dorset to Orcombe Point in…
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This is a re-production of an article from the July 2017 issue of our Go Jurassic! Rangers newsletter. It was written in response to the major rock fall at West Bay the previous month. Some of you may have seen or heard about the massive rock fall at West Bay last month. Here, our…
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Colin Bentley is an East Devon-based fine artist working on a three-year art project in collaboration with the Jurassic Coast Trust. In the latest of his regular blogs, Colin writes of the inspiration, frustration and perspiration that goes into creating his artwork. Colin’s first Jurassic Coast art exhibition is at Kennaway House, Sidmouth, from 21 to…
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