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Kimmeridge again
Aug. 21st, 2022 01:27 pmI was so disappointed by last week's landscape shots taken at Kimmeridge that I returned to Kimmeridge today, with a different lens on the camera and a graduated ND filter, to see if I could manage some better shots.
Clavell Tower, Kimmeridge. "Clavell Tower was built in about 1830 by Reverend John Richards Clavell of Smedmore House as an observatory and folly... Thomas Hardy... often took his first love Eliza Nicholl to Clavell Tower. He used an illustration of it in his Wessex Poems. The local Coastguards used it as a lookout until the 1930s, when it was gutted by fire. The desolate condition of Clavell Tower was the inspiration behind Baroness P. D. James's prize winning 1975 novel 'The Black Tower'." en.wikipedia
Until 2006, the Tower actually stood right on the edge of the cliffs, in imminent peril of disappearing with the next landslip. But in the best traditions of folly, the sum of £900,000 was raised to dismantle it stone by numbered stone, and re-erect it 25 metres further inland. It's now a Landmark Trust holiday cottage.
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Clavell Tower, Kimmeridge. "Clavell Tower was built in about 1830 by Reverend John Richards Clavell of Smedmore House as an observatory and folly... Thomas Hardy... often took his first love Eliza Nicholl to Clavell Tower. He used an illustration of it in his Wessex Poems. The local Coastguards used it as a lookout until the 1930s, when it was gutted by fire. The desolate condition of Clavell Tower was the inspiration behind Baroness P. D. James's prize winning 1975 novel 'The Black Tower'." en.wikipedia
Until 2006, the Tower actually stood right on the edge of the cliffs, in imminent peril of disappearing with the next landslip. But in the best traditions of folly, the sum of £900,000 was raised to dismantle it stone by numbered stone, and re-erect it 25 metres further inland. It's now a Landmark Trust holiday cottage.
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