#clavell tower

Steeple Folly, The Black Tower, & Clavell Tower, Dorset: fiction and fact.

In the middle of the 20th century books featuring the adventures of the Lockett children captured the imaginations of young readers. One title in particular appealed to the Folly Flâneuse: what ghastly goings-on could have taken place at the ‘half completed and abandoned tower’ known as Steeple Folly? And which real clifftop folly might have been the inspiration for it? (more…)

Monday 10th August 2020

Clavell Tower - Kimmeridge ranges - Tyneham Cap

Packed up and moved out of the tower before a final walk and swim. Lunch at the Mexican wagon

Sunday 9th August 2020

Clavell Tower to Swyre Head

Cracking walk from our tower, along the coast for a bit and then up Swyre Head, then a bit of a ridge walk before heading down via Kimmeridge for ice-cream.

Saturday 8th August 2020

Clavell Tower -  Chapman’s Pool

After a very long drive/day the day before, a swim, the flying ants, sunset,

and hardly any sleep, as it was so warm and we couldn’t open the windows, we got up, killed a load of ants, tried to take pics of the local kestrel

and went for a walk.

Met a couple struggling on the steep cliff edge descent. The wife let us past, saying they were slow as her husband was blind. Hmm, though I’ve not seen any “accidents” reported. 

A good hike and swim at Chapman’s Pool though I struggled for the last mile or so on the way back.

Swyre Head Purbeck Dorset

First landscape photography walk of 2019 was going to be from Swyre Head the highest point on the Purbeck Hills to Houns Tout Cliff on the Jurassic coast.  On a cold and frosty January morning. (more…)

I wanted to return to Kimmeridge on the Dorset coast on a weekend day so I could continue the walk through the army range, Worbarrow bay and the deserted WWII village of Tyneham. (more…)

It was a beautiful day in early July.  The great thing with not working you dont have to miss these beautiful days being confined to a stuffy office.  I had a preference for walks along the coast in Dorset.  The next nearest walk from my base in Bournemouth was the coastal walk around Kimmeridge. (more…)