Burning Cliff
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Burning Cliff is an area of disturbed geology, complete with the Holworth discontinuity, which at one time spontaneously caught fire due to the decomposition of iron pyrites and the subsequent ignition of the oil shale (Kimmeridge clay).
It does not burn now unless someone sets fire to it. However, there are places, further along the coast, where you can see burning rocks.
It does not burn now unless someone sets fire to it. However, there are places, further along the coast, where you can see burning rocks.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 50°37'50"N 2°20'6"W
- Bincombe Hill 12 km
- Polden Hills 75 km
- Black Down 83 km
- Quantock Hills 90 km
- The Garth Mountain 124 km
- Cotswolds 146 km
- Myarth 153 km
- Mynydd Troed 161 km
- Cefn Bryn (Ridge Hill) 170 km
- Brown Clee Hill 208 km
- Ringstead Bay 0.4 km
- White Nothe 1 km
- Car Park 1.3 km
- Large WW2 Coastal gun Battery 2.3 km
- Meadow Lake 3.2 km
- Poxwell 3.6 km
- South Dorset Coast SSSI 3.8 km
- Galton Garden Centre 3.9 km
- Bincombe Hill 7.7 km
- Dorset 19 km