Chesil Beach and The Fleet picture gallery

Chickerell Hive

Last updated 5/4/2007

Taken from Chickerell Hive point looking west. Chesil Beach in the distance. The boats are flat-bottomed and built for use on the shallow waters of The Fleet.

Looking North-west up The Fleet across Butterstreet Cove. Sea Barn Hill in the distance.

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14/5/2006

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14/5/2006

Chickerell Hive Point. These huts were probably built as part of the RAF bombing range on The Fleet during WWII.

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14/5/2006

Chickerell Hive point in the foreground with Tidmoor Point and the army rifle range behind it. Beyond that is the western end of the Wyke ridge and beyond that Portland.

The old coastguard cottages above Chickerell Hive. Taken looking across Butterstreet Cove.

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18/2/2007

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11/3/2007

Huts on Chesil Beach opposite the Tidmoor Point rifle range. The building on top of the beach is the range lookout post and warning flag pole.

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11/3/2007

A turtle stone, or septarian nodule, on the beach near Chickerell Hive Point. They are called turtle stones because the segmented marking resembles turtle shells. Larger examples can be cut and polished and were known as Melbury marble. They are believed to have been formed when the Oxford clay is locally enriched to form spheres. Drying out causes cracks which then fill with calcite.

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2/4/2007