On Chesil Beach

It’s not so windy and the sun is out so some coastal sights!

Set high on a hilltop overlooking Chesil Beach and the Isle of Portland, St Catherine's is a barrel-vaulted 14th century chapel was built by the monks of the Abbotsbury Abbey as a place of pilgrimage and retreat.

We walk up the hill and past the abbey ruins and the isolated standing wall of the refectory and huge tithe barn and to get closer to the isolated little chapel. Up top you get fantastic panoramic views over Chesil Beach!

Time for another trip back to old geography trips and onto Chesil beach or bank .It’s a Shingle beach structure and it’s name comes from Old English ceoselor cisel, meaning gravel or shingle. It runs for 29km or 18 miles from West Bay to the Isle of Portland and is up to 15m high and 200m wide. Great views also behind the beach of the Chapel on the hill .

Back on the road and up higher you get better views of the Fleet, a shallow tidal lagoon behind the beach

Time for lunch at a fave spot - The Hive cafe at Burton Bradstock ! Crab sandwiches and a beer !

Another walk for pooch around the Hardy Monument - a reminder of Nelson’s man from Trafalgar.

The Weather is changeable so we take a slow drive around Seaton (the rustic Tram has had a lot of money invested into it since we were last here!) Axbridge and Lyme Regis .Read more