Cocknowle
Cocknowle is a hamlet in Church Knowle, Purbeck District, England. Cocknowle is situated nearby to the locality Bare Cross, as well as near Stonehill Down.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blue Pool and The New Inn.
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.
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.
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. Steeple is situated 1½ miles west of Cocknowle.
Cocknowle
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: Church Knowle, Purbeck District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.63794° or 50° 38′ 17″ northLongitude
-2.09544° or 2° 5′ 44″ westElevation
348 feet (106 metres)Open location code
9C2VJWQ3+5ROpenStreetMap ID
node 4552896582OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
13283088
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