Morcombelake
Morcombelake is a small village near Bridport in Dorset, England, within the ancient parish of Whitchurch Canonicorum. Golden Cap, part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, is nearby.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 372 residents
- Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Morcombelake, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hardown Hill and Church of St Gabriel.
Hardown Hill
Peak
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hardown Hill is a hill between Ryall and Morcombelake in the county of Dorset, England. It rises west of the South Dorset Downs, close to the Dorset coast, and overlooks the Marshwood Vale to the north.
Church of St Candida and Holy Cross
Church
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St Candida and Holy Cross is an Anglican church in Whitchurch Canonicorum, Dorset, England. A Saxon church stood on the site but nothing remains of that structure.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ryall and Whitchurch Canonicorum.
Ryall
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ryall is a small village in the county of Dorset, on the south coast of Great Britain. It is situated roughly midway between the towns of Bridport and Lyme Regis, with the county town of Dorchester about 20 miles to the east.
Whitchurch Canonicorum
Village
Photo: Malcolm Etherington, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitchurch Canonicorum is a village and civil parish in southwest Dorset, England, situated in the Marshwood Vale 5 miles west-northwest of Bridport. In the 2011 Census the parish – which includes the settlements of Morcombelake, Ryall and Fishpond Bottom – had a population of 684.
Seatown
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Seatown is a coastal hamlet in Dorset, England, on the English Channel approximately 3 miles west-southwest of Bridport. It lies within the civil parish of Chideock. Seatown is situated 2 miles southeast of Morcombelake.
Morcombelake
- Category: locality
- Location: Whitchurch Canonicorum, West Dorset District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.74435° or 50° 44′ 40″ northLongitude
-2.85077° or 2° 51′ 3″ westPopulation
372Elevation
505 feet (154 metres)Open location code
9C2VP4VX+PMOpenStreetMap ID
node 1600651243OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2642211Wikidata ID
Q16896846
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Irish—“Morcombelake” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Morcombelake”
- Dutch: “Morcombelake”
- French: “Morcombelake”
- Irish: “Morcombelake”
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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 “Morcombelake”. Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.