IT is arguably the most photographed landmark in Dorset, so it's no surprise that the iconic Durdle Door has been featured in many a film and music video.

The natural limestone arch, located near Lulworth on the Jurassic Coast, is privately owned by the Weld family, who also own the Lulworth Estate, but remains open for members of the public to visit.

Those who have not made the journey to location for themselves, may well have spotted it in part of the Tears for Fears music video for Shout, or indeed in Billy Ocean's Loverboy, or even Cliff Richard's Saviour's Day.

In addition, the landscape surrounding Durdle Door has been used in scenes in a number of films, such as the biopic Wilde, starring Stephen Fry; Nanny McPhee, starring Emma Thompson, and the 1967 production of Thomas Hardy's novel Far From The Madding Crowd, which also shot scenes at the nearby Scratchy Bottom, as well as the Bollywood movie Housefull, which was released in 2010.

Off screen, the site has been brought to life in the pages of Ron Dawson's children's story Scary Bones meets the Dinosaurs of the Jurassic Coast, which creates a myth of how Durdle Door came to be, as an 'undiscovered' dinosaur called Durdle Doorus is magically transformed into rock.

And Dorset-born Arthur Moule, a friend of Thomas Hardy and missionary to China, wrote about Durdle Door for his 1879 book of poetry Songs of heaven and home, written in a foreign land.