Kingston
Kingston is a small village on the Isle of Purbeck in the county of Dorset in southern England.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village near Wareham, Dorset, UK
- Also known as: “Kingston, Dorset” and “Kingston, Purbeck”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St James’s Church, Kingston, Purbeck and The Scott Arms, Including Outbuilding On Left.
St James’s Church, Kingston, Purbeck
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Church of St James is the parish church for the village of Kingston, located on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. The church is a notable example of the Gothic Revival style and is a Grade I listed building.
The Scott Arms, Including Outbuilding On Left
Pub
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Scott Arms, Including Outbuilding On Left is a pub.
Encombe House
Manor estate
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Encombe House is a privately owned, Grade II* listed country house built in 1735 on the Encombe Estate near the village of Kingston and about 1-mile inland of Dorset's Jurassic Coast in southern England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Worth Matravers and Harman’s Cross.
Worth Matravers
Village
Photo: Charlesdrakew, Public domain.
Worth Matravers is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The village is situated on the cliffs west of Swanage. It comprises limestone cottages and farm houses and is built around a pond, which is a regular feature on postcards of the Isle of Purbeck. Worth Matravers is situated 1½ miles southeast of Kingston.
Harman’s Cross
Village
Photo: Huligan0, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Harman's Cross is a small village on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A351 road between Swanage and Corfe Castle. The village is within the civil parish of Worth Matravers, which is itself within the South Dorset constituency of the House of Commons. Harman’s Cross is situated 2 miles east of Kingston.
Woolgarston
Hamlet
Photo: N Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Woolgarston is a village in Dorset, England. Woolgarston is situated 2 miles northeast of Kingston.
Kingston
- Category: locality
- Location: Corfe Castle, Purbeck District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.61651° or 50° 36′ 59″ northLongitude
-2.06287° or 2° 3′ 46″ westElevation
384 feet (117 metres)Open location code
9C2VJW8P+JVOpenStreetMap ID
node 26045232OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Kingston” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kingston”
- Albanian: “Kingston”
- Arabic: “كينغستون”
- Aragonese: “Kingston”
- Basque: “Kingston”
- Bengali: “কিংস্টন”
- Breton: “Kingston”
- Catalan: “Kingston”
- Chinese: “金斯頓”
- Chinese: “金斯顿”
- Croatian: “Kingston”
- Czech: “Kingston”
- Danish: “Kingston”
- Dutch: “Kingston”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كينجستين”
- Esperanto: “Kingston”
- Estonian: “Kingston”
- Finnish: “Kingston”
- French: “Kingston”
- Galician: “Kingston”
- German: “Kingston”
- Hungarian: “Kingston”
- Icelandic: “Kingston”
- Irish: “Kingston”
- Italian: “Kingston”
- Lithuanian: “Kingston”
- Lombard: “Kingston”
- Low German: “Kingston”
- Luxembourgish: “Kingston”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kingston”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kingston”
- Persian: “کینگستون، پوربک”
- Piemontese: “Kingston”
- Polish: “Kingston”
- Portuguese: “Kingston”
- Romanian: “Kingston”
- Sanskrit: “किङ्ग्स्तोन”
- Slovak: “Kingston”
- Slovenian: “Kingston”
- Spanish: “Kingston”
- Swedish: “Kingston”
- Swiss German: “Kingston”
- Turkish: “Kingston”
- Urdu: “کنگسٹن، پوربیک”
- Walloon: “Kingston”
- Welsh: “Kingston, Purbeck”
- Welsh: “Kingston”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include The Plantation and Kingston Country Courtyard.
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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 “Kingston”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.