Osmington Mills

Osmington Mills is a coastal hamlet in the English county of Dorset. It lies within the civil parish of Osmington 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of Weymouth.

Osmington Mills

The Smugglers' Inn at Osmington Mills
Osmington Mills
Location within Dorset
OS grid referenceSY734820
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townWEYMOUTH
Postcode districtDT3
Dialling code01305
PoliceDorset
FireDorset and Wiltshire
AmbulanceSouth Western
UK Parliament

Geology

The coastline around Osmington Mills is part of Dorset's Jurassic Coast, and fossils can be found in the cliffs. The rocks consist of Kimmeridge Clay and the Corallian group from the Oxfordian (Upper Jurassic) and have an interesting trace fossil assemblage. To the west are Black Head and beyond that Redcliff Point, with fossils in the Upper Oxford Clay.

Tourism

Osmington Mills is popular with tourists, providing facilities such as camping and caravan sites, a public house (of which the site has been traced back to the 13th century), and attractive coastal walks.

John Constable

The area around Osmington Mills and Osmington Bay was painted by the English landscape artist John Constable in the early 19th century. He spent his honeymoon in the area in 1816. Paintings include:

gollark: Oh, they """left""".
gollark: Greetings, mortal.
gollark: Bismuth.
gollark: You can do it yourself.
gollark: Oh dear! They temporarily left!

See also
  • The rounded nodules on the beach to the east of Osmington Mills are of calcite-cemented sandstone and come from the Bencliff Grit Formation which is found at the base of the cliffs.
  • Poetry at the
    'Smugglers Inn' (Based on Rudyard Kipling's A Smuggler's Song)

Further reading
  • Callaghan, Christopher. "The Palaeoichnology of the Oxfordian of Osmington Mills, Dorset".

References
  1. "CONSTABLE : impressions of land, sea and sky - John CONSTABLE - Osmington Bay". Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  2. "Posters, Art Prints, Vintage Posters & Canvas Art at Barewalls.com". Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 24 February 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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