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British counties, coasts and oddities

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Which two counties share the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site?

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1. Which two counties share the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site?
- A. Dorset and Hampshire
- B. Devon and Dorset (answer)
- C. Cornwall and Devon
- D. Somerset and Devon
Its formal UNESCO name is the Dorset and East Devon Coast.
2. Which coastal feature is the natural limestone arch near Lulworth?
- A. Portland Bill
- B. Chesil Beach
- C. Durdle Door (answer)
- D. Old Harry Rocks
Durdle Door is an arch. Old Harry Rocks are stacks, Chesil Beach is a shingle ridge, and Portland Bill is a headland.
3. Which pair marks the broad ends of the 95-mile Jurassic Coast described by VisitBritain?
- A. Exmouth and Studland Bay (answer)
- B. Torquay and Poole
- C. Sidmouth and Bournemouth
- D. Plymouth and Weymouth
The Jurassic Coast stretches from Exmouth in Devon to Studland Bay in Dorset.
4. Birling Gap and the Seven Sisters are in which county?
- A. Hampshire
- B. East Sussex (answer)
- C. West Sussex
- D. Kent
These chalk cliffs lie near Eastbourne in East Sussex, not at Dover in Kent.
5. Holy Island, also called Lindisfarne, lies off which English county?
- A. Lincolnshire
- B. East Riding of Yorkshire
- C. Northumberland (answer)
- D. Norfolk
Holy Island lies off Northumberland's coast and is reached by a tidal causeway.
6. Skomer Island, known for its puffins, lies off which Welsh county?
- A. Pembrokeshire (answer)
- B. Ceredigion
- C. Gwynedd
- D. Anglesey
Skomer lies off Pembrokeshire and is commonly reached from Martin's Haven.
7. Blakeney National Nature Reserve is on which county's coast?
- A. Norfolk (answer)
- B. Essex
- C. Suffolk
- D. Lincolnshire
Blakeney is on the north Norfolk coast.
8. Lizard Point is in which county, rather than being a Welsh headland?
- A. Cornwall (answer)
- B. Somerset
- C. Dorset
- D. Devon
Lizard Point is near Helston in Cornwall.
9. The offshore island of Lundy belongs to which English county?
- A. Dorset
- B. Cornwall
- C. Somerset
- D. Devon (answer)
Lundy is part of Devon and lies in the Bristol Channel.
10. Orford Ness, a coastal nature reserve with former military testing buildings, is in which county?
- A. Essex
- B. Norfolk
- C. Suffolk (answer)
- D. Kent
Orford Ness lies on the Suffolk coast beside the town of Orford.
11. The seaside town of Margate, in the area known as the Isle of Thanet, is in which county?
- A. Kent (answer)
- B. Suffolk
- C. Essex
- D. East Sussex
Margate is on Kent's coast. The Isle of Thanet is now connected to the mainland.
12. Oakham is in which small inland county?
- A. Buckinghamshire
- B. Bedfordshire
- C. Rutland (answer)
- D. Hertfordshire
Oakham is in Rutland, whose council and local services are based in the town.

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