Chesil Beach is an example of a bar. Sediment has been deposited over time to form a spit. The spit has continued to join to the Isle of Portland. Behind the spit there is The Fleet, a lagoon.

A team of volunteers who protect a colony of seabirds on a beach have been honoured with an award from the RSPB. The Chesil Little Tern project watch little terns round the clock at Chesil Beach ...

VOLUNTEERS and a conservation body are celebrating another successful breeding season for a vulnerable group of little birds on Chesil Beach which they have helped to protect. The little terns on ...