St Alban's Head

Geographical location

St Alban's Head is a headland. St Alban's Head is a corruption of the real name St Aldhelm Head. The headland is an extension of Portland stone and the overlying Purbeck Stone.

St Alban 's Head is located two kilometers directly south of Worth Matravers, the English Channel and the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, on the south coast of England. St Alban 's Head is located about seven kilometers southwest of Swanage away, and about five kilometers south of Corfe Castle. The peninsula is the southernmost point of the Purbeck Peninsula.

At St Alban 's Head is a Norman chapel. St Aldhelm 's chapel is dedicated to St Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne. He died in the year 709 after Christ. The chapel may have been built in the early twelfth century.

The Isle of Purbeck has a long history in the quarry, especially along the cliffs to the south. The quarries were the largest suppliers of Purbeck stone and Purbeck marble. " St Aldhelm quarry " owned by Haysom and Sons ( a well-known local quarry family) is still processed a quarter mile inland from St Alban 's Head.

The coast and the cliffs along East Devon and Dorset on the English Channel are one of the natural wonders of the world. From Orcombe Point in Exmouth, up to Old Harry Rocks, east of Studland Bay, a 155 km long coastline, which has been declared as the first natural landscape in England by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site stretches. The headland St Alban 's Head is part of the Jurassic Coast.

• See also: List of places on the Jurassic Coast