Durlston Bay (also known as Durdlestone Bay) is a small bay next to a country park of the same name, just south of the resort of Swanage, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. It has been a renowned site for Lower Cretaceous fossils since the initial discovery of fragments there by Samuel Beckles in the 1850s. See also List of Dorset beaches References External links Durlston Bay; Introduction and Upper Purbeck: Geology of the Wessex Coast by I. M. West, 2005. Isle of Purbeck Bays of Dorset Beaches of Dorset Jurassic Coast Swanage