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. A little scrambling is required for access. It is signposted on the South West Coast Path a few kilometres west of Swanage.
A swimming pool was blasted into the rock for the use of local preparatory schools, particularly Durnford School sometime near the beginning of the twentieth century. The last surviving school (The Old Malthouse in Langton Matravers, which closed in 2007) and one of the schools for which the pool was originally created recently 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.

Dan Palmer

July 27, 2024

Careful when climbing down! You don’t want to fall like I did 🙄

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Distance 1.73 km

Uphill 20 m

Downhill 20 m

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Sunday 21 December

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Max wind speed: 32.0 km/h

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Location: Langton Matravers, Purbeck, Dorset, South West England, England, United Kingdom

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