Studland
Studland is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. The village is located about 2 miles north of the town of Swanage, over a steep chalk ridge, and 3 miles south of the South East Dorset conurbation at Sandbanks, from which it is separated by Poole Harbour.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 299 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, England
- Also known as: “Studland, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Henry and Ballard Down.
Fort Henry
Photo: Stevekraken, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Henry is a Grade II listed World War Two observation bunker overlooking Studland Bay, in Dorset. It was built in 1943 to defend the bay from possible German invasion along with other beach defences such as gun emplacements, Type 25 pill boxes and concrete Dragon’s Teeth anti-tank obstacles.
Ballard Down
Peak
Photo: Phil Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballard Down is an area of chalk downland on the Purbeck Hills in the English county of Dorset. The hills meet the English Channel here, and Ballard Down forms a headland, Ballard Point, between Studland Bay to the north and Swanage Bay to the south.
Agglestone Rock
Agglestone Rock, also known as the Devil's Anvil, is a sandstone block of about 400 tonnes weight, perched on a conical hill, approximately 1-mile from the village of Studland, south Dorset.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nine Barrow Down and Swanage.
Nine Barrow Down
Locality
Photo: StephenDawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nine Barrow Down is an elongated hill forming the northern ridge of the Purbeck Hills on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. The chalk down is part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation. Nine Barrow Down is situated 2½ miles west of Studland.
Swanage
Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Swanage is a coastal town of 9,600 people in Dorset. It is at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck and one of its two towns. Town is a popular tourist resort, with many thousands of visitors coming to the town during the peak summer season, drawn by the bay's sandy beaches and other attractions.
Peveril Point
Locality
Peveril Point is a headland on the east-facing coast of the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England, and is part of the town of Swanage. It forms the southern end of Swanage Bay. Peveril Point is situated 2½ miles south of Studland.
Studland
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Studland, Purbeck District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.64238° or 50° 38′ 33″ northLongitude
-1.95259° or 1° 57′ 9″ westPopulation
299Elevation
128 feet (39 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SJYOpen location code
9C2WJ2RW+XXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1480298777OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Studland” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Studland”
- Bavarian: “Studland”
- Bengali: “স্টুডল্যান্ড”
- Catalan: “Studland”
- Cebuano: “Studland”
- Chinese: “Studland”
- Chinese: “斯杜兰”
- Chinese: “斯杜蘭”
- Dutch: “Studland”
- French: “Studland”
- German: “Studland”
- Gujarati: “સ્ટડલેન્ડ”
- Hausa: “Yankin da ake yi”
- Irish: “Studland”
- Italian: “Studland”
- Japanese: “スタッドランド”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಟಡ್ಲ್ಯಾಂಡ್”
- Korean: “스터드랜드”
- Ladin: “Studland”
- Latin: “Studland”
- Lithuanian: “Stadlandas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Studland”
- Persian: “استادلند”
- Polish: “Studland”
- Portuguese: “Studland”
- Russian: “Стадленд”
- Slovenian: “Studland”
- Spanish: “Studland”
- Swedish: “Studland”
- Tamil: “ஸ்டுட்லன்ட்”
- Telugu: “స్ట్డలాండ్”
- Turkish: “Studland”
- Urdu: “ستودلینڈ”
- Welsh: “Studland”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Studland Post Office and Studland Village Hall.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Studland”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.