Geography
The village is built on the side of the Bere River and sits on the line dividing chalk from the river valley sand, clay and gravel rocks. It is situated at the western terminus of the A31 (Guildford - Bere Regis) and A35 (Southampton - Honiton) which both bypass the Village. The local travel hubs are Wareham railway station, 6 miles (9.7 km) from the village, and Bournemouth Airport, 17 miles (27 km) away.
To the south east of the town a large conifer plantation, Wareham Forest, stretches several miles to Wareham. To the west is Dorchester, North is Blandford and east is Bournemouth. Further to the South is a chalk ridge, the Purbeck Hills, and 10 miles (16 km) to the south is the World Heritage Jurassic Coast on the English Channel.
Read more about this topic: Bere Regis
Famous quotes containing the word geography:
“Yet America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;—and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Ktaadn, near which we were to pass the next day, is said to mean “Highest Land.” So much geography is there in their names.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)