The route taken, both parts clockwise, starting at the blue marker and heading East.

Gad Cliff is one of the most spectacular cliffs along the Jurassic Coastline, consisting of Purbeck Beds and Portland Limestone on top of Portland Sand over Kimmeridge Clay. Its jutting angles are evidence of the immense tectonic forces at work which effected so much of the geology around this part of Dorset when the continents of Africa and Europe collided around 30 million years ago, forming the Alps. This cliff section represents the most Northerly impact ripple from that event.

Looking to the East from Gad Cliffs; Kimmeridge Bay with St Aldhelm's head in the distance.

An old ex Flight Refuelling Ltd fire engine at Kimmeridge.

Looking West from Kimmeridge.

Gad Cliffs. A herd of wild goats lives amongst the thick vegetation of the undercliff here. It is thought they either escaped from a farm or have been living and breeding here as survivors from a shipwreck.

The lunchtime stop.

The view down to Warbarrow Bay from Flowers Barrow, an iron age hill fort now partly lost to erosion over the millennia.

Looking inland from Flowers Barrow with Lulworth Castle left of centre.

Sheltering in the steep valley behind Gad Cliff is the village of Tynham. This was once a thriving community with its own school, church and Manor house. The 205 villagers willingly left their 102 properties when it was requisitioned for use as a military firing range and training area on the 19th December 1943. But after the war, the village remained in MOD control and to this day, the village of Tynham lies derelict and deserted, locked in time within the MOD’s Lulworth firing range. The village stretched for nearly a mile (1.5km) down to Worbarrow Bay, where the fisherman had their cottages, but all that remains of these are some walls and foundations. The school room and church are the only intact buildings left in the village and are opened to visitors giving an interesting glimpse of life in the 1940’s.