View of Old Harry Rocks, Chalk Stacks which jut out into the English Channel from the Jurassic Coast, Handfast Point, Dorset UK

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These are rocks of legend, one legend says that the Devil (or "Old Harry") had a sleep on the rocks. Another says that the rocks were named after Harry Paye, the infamous Poole pirate, who stored his contraband nearby.

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Location: Handfast Point, near Studland, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK
Photo credit: © Cath Evans / Alamy / Afripics
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