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The ‘Gibraltar of Wessex’ was Thomas Hardy’s description of this narrow peninsula. It is an almost treeless rock, from whose many quarries stone has gone to be used in such buildings as St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
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The ‘Gibraltar of Wessex’ was Thomas Hardy’s description of this narrow peninsula. It is an almost treeless rock, from whose many quarries stone has gone to be used in such buildings as St Paul’s Cathedral in London.