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Durdle Pier is a disused 17th-century stone shipping quay, located on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, England; part of the Jurassic Coast. It is found close by Yeolands Quarry, on the east side of the island within the area of East Weares and Penn's Weare. ==History== Durdle Pier dates back to the 17th century when the surrounding area was quarried.〔http://www.visitweymouth.co.uk/downloadForms/RailwayWalkleaflet.pdf〕 When British architect Inigo Jones chose Portland Stone for the rebuilding of the Banqueting House at Whitehall, London, in 1619, the island's stone became increasingly popular. Durdle became one of the main stone shipping places on the east side. In the area the stone was shipped from the adjacent Durdle, Folly, and King's Piers, although only Durdle Pier remained well-preserved into the 21st-century.〔 The limestone quarries of East and Penn's Weares were the earliest to be quarried on the island, and were the location of Sir Christopher Wren's first workings of stone to rebuild London after the Great Fire of 1666. The quarries occupied a 200-300m wide strip along the east coast of the island between Church Ope Cove and King's Pier. Around 1840-70, the original crane was replaced with a crane made by Galpin of Dorchester. The last crane to be on the pier was at least the third to ever be placed at the site.〔 Once quarrying in the area was reduced, and quarries moved inland from the cliffs, fishermen became the pier's main users. The crane was one of the few remaining cranes used for lifting boats from the water around Portland's coast, and the crane along with the isolated pier was still used into the 21st century until the crane became broken and beyond repair. During the storms of early 2014, the pier's crane was destroyed by the sea. Three separate parts of the destroyed crane lie further north of the pier along the coastline - two of which are located within the area of the Salt Pans. Within close proximity to Durdle Pier are two World War II pillboxes. One is located on the seaward side of the Weares, south of the pier, whilst the other is found further up. Both structures are the only two camouflaged pillboxes on Portland, designed to blend in with the boulder strewn area of the Weares. The Great Southwell Landslip, Britain's second largest recorded historical landslide, occurred in 1734, between Durdle Pier and Freshwater Bay, at a distance of one and a half miles.〔http://www.jurassiccoastline.com/jurassic_Info1b.asp?ID=153&AreaID=153〕 The Dorset names Durlston Bay and Head (in Swanage) and Durdle Pier, again without early spellings, can be associated etymologically with Durdle Door. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Durdle Pier」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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