If you’re ever in Dorset especially the coast this is a definite must. Gorgeous coastal walks(25 minutes, and hour, or longer). Great pubs along the coastal paths and nearly everywhere is dog friendly. Dogs are welcomed on the beach, too.
Matthew L.
Tu valoración: 3 Church Crookham, United Kingdom
Ringstead beach is perhaps one of the lesser known places to go fossil hunting. You reach it by driving throught the village of Ringstead over a couple of very steep hills. The road turns into a private road and ends at a car park with a kiosk(see C J kiosk Ringstead). As this is private land, you pay a reasonable fee for all-day parking here. It is a shingle beach that starts off shallow with an increasing slope up to the ‘cliff’ which is formed of rock strata. The place you find fossils is in fact in a strip of clay about 6 foot high accessible from the beach. The beach runs for a good mile down the coast, which being Dorset is very beautiful when the sun is out. It isn’t the best place to find fossils easily, but it is a good place to have a quiet time, say paddling in the sea or(British weather permitting), sunbathing.
