Dancing Ledge

Dancing Ledge is part of the Jurassic Coast near Langton Matravers in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England.

Dancing Ledge is a flat area of rock at the base of a small cliff.

Some of the stone removed by the quarrying was transported by ship direct from Dancing Ledge, round the south coast to Kent in order to construct Ramsgate harbour in the 18th and 19th centuries.

arranged for debris, including several large rocks, to be removed, making swimming possible once again.

The sea itself is not suitable for swimming, as there is no shoreline, simply a rock shelf under which people have been pulled by the current to their deaths.

Dancing Ledge from the west
Dancing Ledge seen from the steps
The tidal swimming pool at Dancing Ledge