The white chalk stacks at Handfast Point, two miles north of Swanage, are the defining image of the eastern end of the Jurassic Coast. The largest stack — Old Harry — rises about twenty metres from the sea, separated from the cliff face by a narrow gap that the sea is steadily widening. From the cliff above, the long view runs from the chalk cliffs of the Isle of Wight, across Studland Bay and Poole Harbour, and on a clear day to the high ground of the Purbeck ridge.
Reach it from Swanage on the South West Coast Path heading north out of town, past Ballard Down and over Ballard Cliff — about an hour and a quarter on foot one way, with the best of the views coming in the last fifteen minutes as the path turns east. Alternatively, walk from the South Beach car park at Studland (twenty minutes). The headland itself is open grass with no fencing; keep well back from the unstable cliff edge.