Swyre Head

Swyre Head is the highest point of the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, on the south coast of England. The hill Swyre Head lies about 2 kilometres southwest of the village Kingston, about 5 kilometres south of Corfe Castle and 8 kilometres west of Swanage.

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Places of Interest

Highlights include Encombe House and Smedmore House.

Encombe House

Manor estate

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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.

Smedmore House

Manor estate

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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.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kingston and Steeple.

Kingston

Village

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Kingston is a small village on the Isle of Purbeck in the county of Dorset in southern England.

Steeple

Hamlet

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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.

Worth Matravers

Village

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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.

Swyre Head

Type: Peak with an elevation of 679 feet
Description: hill on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England, UK
Categories: hill and landform
Location: Corfe Castle, Purbeck District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.60602° or 50° 36′ 22″ north

Longitude

-2.09403° or 2° 5′ 39″ west

Elevation

679 feet (207 metres)

Open location code

9C2VJW44+C9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 29718234

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

12608667

Wikidata ID

Q2373447

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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Swyre Head” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Swyre Head”
German: “Swyre Head (Kingston)”
German: “Swyre Head”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Swyre Head”

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