Lulworth skipper of occurrences exist for Cornwall, but they have not been verified as native colonies. Habitats are primarily on unfertilised calcareous grassland; this includes chalk download, coastal grassland and undercliffs in Britain. In all of these habits Tor-grass ("Illustration 2"), the butterfly's sole food plant and that on which it lays eggs, is widespread. Tall, ungrazed grass is a favoured habitat due to oviposition and larval development; Lulworth skippers have benefited from the move away from tight grazing by sheep in the last century and recently outbreaks of myxomatosis among rabbit populations, which otherwise maintain a lower grass height. However, there
SS Lulworth Hill War Medal for Bravery at Sea. In 1985 a radio interview was broadcast in which Cooke described their ordeal and survival. On 23 May 1943 "Leonardo da Vinci" was in the North Atlantic returning from patrol west of Vigo, Spain when the Royal Navy destroyer depth charged and sank her. There were no survivors. James Hull, the prisoner from "Lulworth Hill", had previously been transferred to the Italian submarine "Finzi". In 1947 Dorset Steamships bought the Empire ship SS "Empire Mandarin" and renamed her "Lulworth Hill". In 1949 she was renamed "Castle Hill". In 1950 she was transferred to a