Swanage Pier

Swanage Pier is a wharf in the beach front town of Swanage, worked in 1895 for traveler administrations. The wharf reaches out into the southern end of Swanage Bay close Swanage, a residential area in the south east of Dorset, England. It is arranged on the eastern shore of the Isle of Purbeck, around 10 km south of Poole and 40 km east of Dorchester in the United Kingdom. A more established wharf in the town was utilized by stone quarries, and fell into decay. Everything that remaining parts of it are its timber heaps.

The first Swanage Pier was worked somewhere in the range of 1859 and 1861 for utilize basically by the nearby stone quarrying industry, and incorporated a tramway which ran the length of the wharf and some path along the seafront. The old tracks can be seen right up 'til the present time, inset into the seafront walkways. At the point when neighborhood businessperson George Burt presented standard steamer benefits among Swanage and close-by towns Poole and Bournemouth in 1874, a need ended up clear for a second wharf to be assembled principally for use by traveler steamers. Development on the new wharf started in 1895, and by 1896 was first utilized by a steamer. The wharf was formally opened for activity in 1897.