Seatown

Seatown
Seatown in November 2008, with Golden Cap in the background
Seatown is located in Dorset
Seatown
Seatown
Location within Dorset
OS grid referenceSY420918
Unitary authority
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBridport
Postcode districtDT6
PoliceDorset
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament
  • West Dorset
List of places
UK
England
Dorset
50°43′22″N 2°49′22″W / 50.7227°N 2.8229°W / 50.7227; -2.8229

Seatown is a coastal hamlet in Dorset, England, on the English Channel approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) west-southwest of Bridport. It lies within the civil parish of Chideock.

The coast at Seatown is part of the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The surrounding area is also designated part of the Dorset National Landscape. Golden Cap, the highest point on the south coast of England, lies 1 mile (1.6 km) to the west.

Seatown comprises a small number of houses, a holiday park, some holiday cottages and a pub. The small River Winniford or Wynreford[1] runs into the sea here. Seatown beach is popular with fossil collectors, with rock of Late Jurassic/Early Cretaceous. The beach is privately owned; access to it is free, but there is a charge for car parking.

'Furmity'—a mix of wheat, dried fruit and sugar, often with added spirits—was one of the products sold at a Whit Monday Fair which used to be held in Seatown.[citation needed]

The current Anchor Inn and the neighbouring cottages are rebuildings of their earlier equivalents which had been destroyed in the Great Storm of 1824.[citation needed]

The rebuilt Anchor Inn and rebuilt neighbouring cottages at Seatown, Dorset, England.
The rebuilt Anchor Inn and rebuilt neighbouring cottages at Seatown, Dorset, England.
  1. ^ Roland Gant (1980). Dorset Villages. Robert Hale Ltd. pp. 123–4. ISBN 0 7091 8135 3.