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May 31, 2015 By cheryl

The Square & Compass (Worth Matravers, England): A Splendid Little Spot

The Square and Compass Pub A lazy drive along the Dorset Coast in southern England is just packed with delights.

There’s the English Channel of course, that endless expanse of intense powder blue that you can’t quite take your eyes off. The grass is an impossibly vibrant green. And when the sun’s just up there showing off to you on an early summer’s day, it starts to feel as if the moment couldn’t get any better.

But then, it does.

In a little speck of a village perched on the steep cliffs near Swanage, an inviting white stone building surrounded by swarms of bikers and daytrippers in shorts and flimsy sundresses appears. D.B. has promised me a good lunch and so here we are, at the charming Square and Compass …

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Filed Under: British, England, Restaurants, Tales From the Road, The Beach, Travel Tagged With: Beer, Cider, Dorset, England, English Channel, Ice-cream, Pasty, Pub, Purbeck, Swanage, The Square & Compass, Worth Matravers

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