Kimmeridge
Kimmeridge is a small village and civil parish on the Isle of Purbeck, a peninsula on the English Channel coast in Dorset, England. It is situated about 4.5 miles south of Wareham and 7 miles west of Swanage.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Parish, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 102 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Kimeridge” and “Kimmeridge, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Nicholas’s Church, Kimmeridge and Smedmore House.
St Nicholas’s Church, Kimmeridge
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Nicholas's Church is a parish church in Kimmeridge, Dorset. It is dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra. The church is in the Archdeaconry of Dorset, in the Diocese of Salisbury.
Smedmore House
Manor estate
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Smedmore House is a country house near Kimmeridge, Dorset, in England. It was originally built by Sir William Clavell around 1620, partially rebuilt by Edward Clavell around 1700, and greatly augmented by George Clavell around 1760.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Steeple and East Creech.
Steeple
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Steeple is a hamlet and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in the English county of Dorset. It is situated 8 miles west of the coastal resort town of Swanage at the foot of Ridgeway Hill.
East Creech
Hamlet
Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Creech is a hamlet in the parish of Church Knowle in the county of Dorset, England. East Creech lies at the northern foot of the Purbeck Hills about 3 kilometres west of Corfe Castle. East Creech is situated 2 miles northeast of Kimmeridge.
Kingston
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingston is a small village on the Isle of Purbeck in the county of Dorset in southern England. Kingston is situated 2½ miles east of Kimmeridge.
Kimmeridge
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Kimmeridge, Purbeck District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.61744° or 50° 37′ 3″ northLongitude
-2.12049° or 2° 7′ 14″ westPopulation
102Elevation
217 feet (66 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB KIMOpen location code
9C2VJV8H+XROpenStreetMap ID
node 373794971OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Welsh—“Kimmeridge” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Kimmeridge”
- Catalan: “Kimmeridge”
- Cebuano: “Kimmeridge”
- Chinese: “Kimmeridge”
- Chinese: “启莫里”
- Dutch: “Kimmeridge”
- French: “Kimmeridge”
- German: “Kimmeridge”
- Irish: “Kimmeridge”
- Italian: “Kimmeridge”
- Japanese: “キンメリッジ”
- Ladin: “Kimmeridge”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kimmeridge”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kimmeridge”
- Persian: “کیمریج”
- Polish: “Kimmeridge”
- Russian: “Киммеридж (Дорсет)”
- Russian: “Киммеридж”
- Sicilian: “Kimmeridge”
- Spanish: “Kimmeridge”
- Swedish: “Kimmeridge”
- Turkish: “Kimmeridge”
- Welsh: “Kimmeridge”
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