Monument record MDO32807 - Steps and cliff path, West Cliffs, Bournemouth

Steps depicted on the 2nd edition 25-inch scale Ordnance Survey map (1989) on which they are called 'Joseph's Steps'. Considered likely to be of late 19th-century date. Later maps show the steps replaced by a zig-zag path.

A long flight of steps named Joseph's Steps is shown mounting the West Cliff on the OS 2nd edn 25in map (1898) (1), at a point marked on the 1st edn (2) as Little Durley Chine, presumably a natural break in the cliff line. Later maps (3, 4) show a landing half way up the flight of steps and subsequent replacement by a zig-zag path.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1900, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch two (Map). SDO11594.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1864, 1886, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch one (Map). SDO10239.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1923-33, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch three (Map). SDO11595.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1934-38, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch four (Map). SDO11596.

Record last edited

Jan 14 2016 4:16PM