A bay is protected from either a prevailing winds & storms by Old Harry Rocks, the chalk headland that separates Studland from Swanage bay. This has allowed, above a period of just about 600 years, the arenaceous beach to become deposited against the redend sandstone cliffs, at a in the south prevent of the bay, & the Reading & London clay formations at the northerly prevent of the bay. This deposition has led to the incubation of the psammosere (sand dune system). A beach extends n, partially way through a mouth of Poole harbour.

Behind a sand dunes there is a big vicinity of heathland, called Godlingston heath, and Poole harbour. There is a saline flow of any stream amoungst a sand dune which was cut off from either a sea per development of the sand dune. A flow of any stream occurs as haven for birds & more wildlife. Standing in the mound in the heath is the 400 ton, Xvii foot high Agglestone, sustaining there is no clues when to the stone's origin, differently a local myth that a devil threw it there from either a Isle of Wight. A heath & harbour come at home to Britain's largest inshore oil field, & British Petroleum's Wytch Farm refinery is hidden amoungst a pine woods to the west of the heath. Studl& and Godlingston heath develop been the National Nature Reserve since 1946, and a places get on English Nature's list of "Spotlight Reserves", a 31 first reserves inside England. the places is besides a secure Site of Special Scientific Interest, Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, part of the Purbeck Heritage Coast, and the gateway to the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. A places is the exclusively place around Britain which is page to 100% Seven native reptile species. A places is owned & managed per National Trust, who clear scrub, keep a bapiece tidy, & carefully handle a hundreds to thousands of visitant the places gets each summertime.

Studland bay, Godlingstone Heath, Poole Harbour and Bournemouth from Ballard Down A metropolitan area is good through Poole harbour from either a conurbation of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch. A Quintuplet mile hanker beach is close plenty to exist as ready to h& & accessible, however far plenty to exist as loose from either a pollution and sewerage associated using urban beaches. This & a careful management per National Trust & calm shallow waters produce it one of a virtually all popular beaches in a united states, & in hot summertime weekends the beach fills higher by having hundreds to thousands of population. A National Trust use at times restricted parking provision at a places to halt overcrowding. The short northern stretch of the beach is reserved as a naturist beach.

A village, & beach were utilized as a step by step instruction metropolitan area prior to a D-Day landing in the Second World War. inside top of Redend point, a little sandstone drop which splits the beach in both at high tide, is Fort Henry. Built within 1943 by Canadian engineers, it is Xc foot hanker, sustaining Tierce foot heavy bulwarks & an Lxxx foot wide recessed observation slit. In April 18 1944, King George VI, General Sir Bernard Montgomery, and General Dwight D. Eisenhower, met here to observe the training troops and discuss the plans for the coming battle.

Beach management
Within January 2004 the BBC television series The National Trust investigated a conflicts between different groups of humans world health organization apply the beach & heath at Studland. A series particularly covered a debate just about coastal management at Studland. Now a drop & beach side shops come protected by rock bulwarks (coastal defenses). A National Trust proposes removing these defenses to allow action to shape a coastline.