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The Swanage Railway at Corfe Village -
Photo:
Crispin Purdye
CCL |
A
one-time Anglo Saxon port of some importance,
it was the place where Alfred the Great
famously thwarted a Viking Danish fleet in
877.
The
Wellington clock tower, erected on the shore,
stood at the southern end of London Bridge
until the mid 19th century when it
was brought to Swanage by builders John Mowlem
and his nephew George Burt. They also brought
with them the façade from a London guild
house, Mercers’ Hall, which adorns the local
town hall. |
