Swanage (gbr)

Swanage

Swanage ranks 9,101st in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Feuchtwangen, Périgord, and Asbury Park, New Jersey. Memorable people born in Swanage include James Meade, and Robert Brown. Memorable people who died in Swanage include William Renshaw, and Robert Brown. Swanage has been the birth place of many economists, and actors and the death place of many tennis players, and actors. Swanage is located in United Kingdom.

Swanage is a coastal town and civil parish in the south-east of Dorset, England. It lies at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck and is one of its two towns, approximately 6+1⁄4 miles (10 km) south of Poole and 25 miles (40 km) east of Dorchester. In the 2011 census, the civil parish had a population of 9,601. Nearby are Ballard Down and Old Harry Rocks, with Studland Bay and Poole Harbour to the north; within the parish are Durlston Bay and Durlston Country Park to the south of the town. The parish also includes the areas of Herston, just to the west of the town, and Durlston, just to the south. Read more on Wikipedia