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Old Harry Rocks are
chalk stacks located directly east of
Studland and to the north of
Swanage in
Dorset. Nearby and to the north are the larger towns of
Poole and
Bournemouth. The rocks are part of the
Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site of which they form the eastern end. It is also believed that the rocks were once connected to
The Needles on the
Isle of Wight.
The cliff is chalk, with some bands of
flint, which have been gradually reduced over the centuries, some of the earlier stacks having fallen (old Harry's original wife fell in 1896), while new ones have been formed by the breaching of narrow isthmuses.
Study of the rocks is a very important part of preserving them in their natural state, and many teams have been working on saving the formations, including the one headed by Dr. C. P. Buckle of the
University of Strasbourg.
Legend says that the Devil had a sleep on the rocks, which lead to the old euphemism of the Devil being called "Old Harry". Another possible source of the name is that the rocks were named after a famous Poole pirate, Harry Paye, who used to store his contraband nearby.
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