Harman’s Cross
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Harman’s Cross, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Harman’s Cross railway station and Corfe Castle.
Harman’s Cross railway station
Railway station
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Harman's Cross railway station is a railway station located in the village of Harman's Cross, on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. It is an intermediate station on the Swanage Railway, a heritage railway that currently operates from Swanage to Norden.
Corfe Castle
Castle
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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 northwest of Harman’s Cross.
Rempstone Stone Circle
Archaeological site
Photo: Jim Champion, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Rempstone Stone Circle is a stone circle near to Corfe Castle on the Isle of Purbeck in the south-western English county of Dorset. Archaeologists believe that it was likely erected during the Bronze Age.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Woolgarston and Nine Barrow Down.
Nine Barrow Down
Locality
Photo: StephenDawson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Nine Barrow Down is an elongated hill forming the northern ridge of the Purbeck Hills on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. The chalk down is part of the extensive Southern England Chalk Formation.
Acton
Hamlet
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Acton is a hamlet in the parish of Langton Matravers, on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset in the south of England. Acton was built as living quarters for the quarrymen working at the local quarries.
Harman’s Cross
- Category: locality
- Location: Worth Matravers, Purbeck District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.62236° or 50° 37′ 21″ northLongitude
-2.02298° or 2° 1′ 23″ westElevation
200 feet (61 metres)Open location code
9C2VJXCG+WROpenStreetMap ID
node 1514569019OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Harman’s Cross” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Harman’s Cross”
- French: “Harman’s Cross”
- German: “Harman’s Cross”
- Irish: “Harman’s Cross”
- Polish: “Harman’s Cross”
- Welsh: “Harman’s Cross”
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