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Isle of Purbeck
Map from Lycos @ 1:500,000
Map from Lycos
@ 1:500,000

Quarried for centuries from the limestone of the 'Isle' of Purbeck, the 'marble' is not marble at all but limestone which contains many shells embedded in it - when polished the edges of the shells in the darker limestone matrix give an attractive appearance to the stone.

The Romans valued Purbeck Marble for construction and quarried it - and a jetty found at Ower in Poole Harbour may have been used for loading the stone into Roman ships.

The discovery of beds of Purbeck stone close to the surface was the basis to the former quarrying industry of Old Swindon in Wiltshire.

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NEWTOWN,   Brand's Bay, Poole Harbour
Newton was a "new town" which King Edward I attempted to establish on the shores of Brand's Bay in Dorset's Poole Harbour as a port to handle the trade in Purbeck Stone in 1286. Although the site was pegged out to include space for a market and a church and some houses were built, by the time of Queen Elizabeth I it had become reduced to a single cottage.

Old Town, Swindon, Wiltshire
 
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