Chesil Beach Visitors Centre

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Please note that the Chesil Beach Centre is currently being re-developed. A temporary centre is operating from a portacabin in the car park until July 2012. Much of the car park is now a building site.

The Chesil Beach Visitors Centre is located at the southern end of the Fleet Lagoon on the Ferrybridge car park between Weymouth and Portland. The current centre was opened in 1994 and replaced a makeshift centre operated from a temporary building.

The building was jointly funded by the Crown Estates, Weymouth & Portland Borough Council, Portland Court Leet and Ilchester Estates. The displays were sponsored by English Nature (now Natural England), the Environment Agency, Wessex Water, and the Rural Development Commission. Roger Oakes did the artwork in the visitors room.

The Centre was visited by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh in 1999.

The Chesil Beach Visitors Centre is one of the Dorset Coastlink chain of visitor centres.

 

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pinks around the centre The Portland pinks (thrift, Armeria maritima) in flower late April 2007.
 
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