![]() ![]() It is also connected to the South West Coast Path, so it is possible to park elsewhere along the trail and access the cove by foot. It was taken by units of the British 50th Infantry Division. Gold Beach was the centre beach of the five designated landing areas of the Normandy Invasion of World War II. There is a paid parking lot available 300 metres (330 yd) away from the cove. Gold & Sword Beaches and the British Cemeteries. In line with these further along (to the east) are the three sets of named rocks along the rest of St Oswald's Bay Access The near rocks in the bay are recorded as the Man of War himself. ![]() St Oswald's Bay is in turn protected from Atlantic surf by south Devon and by closer Portland Bill forming the multi-cove Weymouth Bay, before the even greater recess of Christchurch or Poole Bay which in its greater definition takes in the area of sea east of Swanage on the Purbeck peninsula. A technical distinction is possible as to the water rather than the solid features of the crescent, in that the cove the bay encloses is Man o' War Cove. The UK Ordnance Survey maps have local bay names at 1:50000 and 1:25000 these record the pronounced crescent as Man o' War Cove, in turn forming part of St Oswald's Bay reduced to a long gentle arc to the east, about five times the width of the cove. It is usually possible to walk along a thin strand of high tide, dry sand linking the cove to the rest of St Oswald's Bay an area almost entirely visible from the west side of the cove. The line of exposed rocks continues, very intermittently about 100 metres (110 yd) from the shore as the Norman Rock, Pinion Rock and a cluster around the Ball Stone, along St Oswald's Bay. Its name is believed to be a corruption of the Brythonic 'Men-an-Vawr' (The Great Rock) Features Ī line of pronounced rocks takes up the far side of the cove at the distance of the great Durdle Door headland to the east these partially enclose the cove, and have few submerged components and feature mostly at the east end of the bay - map-recorded as "The Man o' War". Man o' War Cove (or Man of War Bay and similar names) lies on the Dorset coast in southern England and is flanked by the rocky, steep and slightly projecting headlands of Durdle Door to the west and Man O War (or O' War) Head to the east. The top of Durdle Door, and a glimpse of its opening, can be seen at the top of the steps. ![]()
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