Steeple
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 206 residents
- Description: village and former civil parish in Dorset, UK
- Also known as: “Steeple, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Michael and All Angels church and Grange Arch.
Grange Arch
Monument
Photo: Bermicourt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grange Arch, also known as Creech Folly, is an 18th-century folly that is located near the second highest point of the Purbeck Hills, Ridgeway Hill, in Dorset.
Ridgeway Hill
Peak
Photo: Bermicourt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ridgeway Hill, also referred to as Grange Hill or Steeple Hill, is the third highest point of the Purbeck Hills in the county of Dorset standing at 199 metres, is one of the only hills with a prominence of over a hundred metres, HuMPs, in the county.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Creech and Furzebrook.
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.
Furzebrook
Village
Photo: Huligan0, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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. Furzebrook is situated 2 miles northeast of Steeple.
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 3 miles east of Steeple.
Steeple
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Steeple, Purbeck District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.62949° or 50° 37′ 46″ northLongitude
-2.12758° or 2° 7′ 39″ westPopulation
206Elevation
259 feet (79 metres)Open location code
9C2VJVHC+QXOpenStreetMap ID
node 768385755OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
11071869Wikidata ID
Q2239989
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Steeple” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Steeple (parokya sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Dorset)”
- Cebuano: “Steeple”
- Chinese: “Steeple”
- Dutch: “Steeple”
- French: “Steeple”
- Irish: “Steeple”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Steeple (Dorset)”
- Persian: “استیپل، همپشر”
- Polish: “Steeple”
- Swedish: “Steeple (parish i Storbritannien, England, Dorset)”
- Swedish: “Steeple, Dorset”
- Welsh: “Steeple, Dorset”
- Welsh: “Steeple”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Steeple Leaze Wood and Pole Coppice.
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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 “Steeple”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.