East Creech
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “East Creech, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blue Pool and Ridgeway Hill.
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.
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.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Furzebrook and Steeple.
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.
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.
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 Green is situated 2 miles north of East Creech.
East Creech
- Categories: village and locality
- Location: Church Knowle, Purbeck District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.64275° or 50° 38′ 34″ northLongitude
-2.10347° or 2° 6′ 13″ westElevation
295 feet (90 metres)Open location code
9C2VJVVW+4JOpenStreetMap ID
node 1860043503OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Irish—“East Creech” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “East Creech”
- French: “East Creech”
- Irish: “East Creech”
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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 “East Creech”. Photo: Pierre Terre, CC BY-SA 2.0.