Hen Cliff

Hen Cliff is a rock wall on the English Channel coast in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset on the south coast of England.

The rock wall Hen Cliff runs from the eastern end of Kimmeridge Bay ( below Folly name Clavell Tower ) eastward to an area called Cuddle. The rock walls are made of several layers of Jurassic rocks, Portland limestone, Purbeck stone and slate. The rock is fossil, but also very brittle, rockfalls happen here often and are very dangerous. Yellow Ledge is the prominent Kimmeridgian projection, a rock band, at the eastern end of Hen Cliff. The term Kimmeridgian was introduced by Jules Thurmann 1832. It involves the Latinized name of the village Kimmeridge. The Kimmeridgian is a stage of the Upper Jurassic ( Malm ).

From Orcombe Point, in the west, to the Isle of Purbeck, in the east, a stretch of coast that has been declared as the first natural landscape in England by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site stretches. The rock walls of Hen Cliff are part of the Jurassic Coast, it is one of the natural wonders of this world and the coast is known for its fossils.