Furzebrook
Furzebrook is a small village on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset in the south of England. It is about 2 miles south of Wareham and 2 miles northwest of Corfe Castle, and is in the civil parish of Church Knowle.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Furzebrook, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blue Pool and Corfe Castle.
Blue Pool
Lake
Photo: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Blue Pool is a flooded, disused clay pit where Purbeck ball clay was once extracted. It is now a lake within the Furzebrook Estate, a 25-acre park of heath woodland and gorse near Furzebrook on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset, southern England.
Corfe Castle
Castle
Photo: Chin tin tin, CC BY 3.0.
Corfe Castle is a fortification standing above the village of the same name on the Isle of Purbeck peninsula in the English county of Dorset. Built by William the Conqueror, the castle dates to the 11th century and commands a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage. Corfe Castle is situated 2 miles southeast of Furzebrook.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Creech and Stoborough Green.
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.
Stoborough Green
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stoborough Green is a village in the English county of Dorset. It is situated to the south of the village of Stoborough and about 2 kilometres south of the town of Wareham.
Stoborough
Village
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stoborough is a village in the English county of Dorset. It is situated one mile to the south of the town of Wareham, and separated from it by the River Frome. Stoborough is situated 1½ miles north of Furzebrook.
Furzebrook
- Category: locality
- Location: Church Knowle, Purbeck District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.65383° or 50° 39′ 14″ northLongitude
-2.09756° or 2° 5′ 51″ westElevation
151 feet (46 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB FZEOpen location code
9C2VMW32+GXOpenStreetMap ID
node 898864105OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6269337Wikidata ID
Q1475255
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Furzebrook” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Furzebrook, Dorset”
- French: “Furzebrook”
- German: “Furzebrook”
- Irish: “Furzebrook, Dorset”
- Polish: “Furzebrook (Dorset)”
- Polish: “Furzebrook”
- Welsh: “Furzebrook, Dorset”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Blue Pool and Furzebrook 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 “Furzebrook”. Photo: Huligan0, CC BY-SA 3.0.