Any season, any weather, St Aldhelms Head is a wild and rugged place; a post industrial landscape being taken back by nature. Years of dumping quarry waste have created St Aldhelms Heads distinctive boulder strewn scree slopes. Between the bigger boulders, scrub has taken hold and slowly makes ground; deer can be seen roaming this wild world. The commanding cliffs have seen plenty of activity over the centuries. St Aldhelms chapel, a small square Purbeck stone chapel perches just back from the cliff edge, Coastguard houses from the mid 1800's lie close by and the whole headland saw early developments in radar technology take place at the Telecommunications Research Establishment at nearby RAF Worth Matravers.
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