East Lulworth

East Lulworth circa 1910

East Lulworth is a coastal parish situated 6 miles south west from Wareham and 9 miles east of Dorchester. To the east is the parish of Tyneham, to the north is Coombe Kenyes and to the west is Winfrith Newburgh and West Lulworth. The parish church of St Andrew has registers dating from 1561. Lulworth Castle lies within the parish, there is also a school and a post office. Population in 1891 was 358.

The small village consists of old thatched cottages and its village pub, the Weld Arms. The village is now dominated by the barracks of the Royal Armoured Corps Gunnery School who use a portion of the Purbeck Hills as a gunnery range.

The nearby Weld Estate Castle Park grounds contains the first Roman Catholic church to be built (in the form of a Greek mausoleum in 1786) since the time of the Protestant Reformation. There are spacious Catholic Schools and a Catholic cemetery was opened in 1830.

Joseph Weld built the original castle. A serious fire ravaged the castle in 1929 and it was left semi-derelict until the 1990s when it was restored to its former glory and opened to the public

A freighter in Lulworth Cove circa 1900

There is currently no Online Parish Clerk (OPC) for East Lulworth

If you would be interested in taking the position of OPC for East Lulworth please contact the co-ordinator via the home page

Left. The photograph is courtesy of the FreeFoto.Com web site. This shows part of the coast between Lulworth and Kimmeridge.