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Dorset
Purbeck District

Corfe Castle

Corfe Castle is a village in and the site of a ruined castle of the same name. The medieval castle, built by William the Conqueror, dates to the 11th century and commands a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage.
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  • Type: Village with 1,360 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, England
  • Also known as: “Corfe Castle, Dorset”
  • Postal code: BH20 5ED

Places of Interest

Highlights include Corfe Castle and Norden railway station.

Castle
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is a fortification standing above the village of the same name on the peninsula in the English county of . Built by William the Conqueror, the castle dates to the 11th century and commands a gap in the on the route between and .

Railway station
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is a railway station located one mile to the north of the village of Corfe Castle, on the in the county of .

Railway station
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is a railway station located in the village of Corfe Castle, in the county of . Originally an intermediate station on the London and South Western Railway branch line from to , the line and station were closed by British Rail in 1972.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kingston and Woolgarston.

Village
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is a small on the in the county of in southern .

Hamlet
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is a village in , .

Village
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Harman's Cross is a small on the in , . It is situated on the A351 road between and Corfe Castle. The village is within the civil parish of , which is itself within the South Dorset constituency of the House of Commons.

Corfe Castle

Latitude
50.6389° or 50° 38′ 20″ north
Longitude
-2.0572° or 2° 3′ 26″ west
Population
1,360
Elevation
66 feet (20 metres)
Open location code
9C2VJWQV+H4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1601778805
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2652374
Wiki­data ID
Q13341461
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Corfe Castle” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Corfe Castle (udalerria)”
  • Basque: “Corfe Castle”
  • Belarusian: “Корф-Касл”
  • Cebuano: “Corfe Castle”
  • Chinese: “Corfe Castle”
  • Dutch: “Corfe Castle”
  • French: “Corfe Castle”
  • German: “Corfe Castle”
  • German: “Corfe”
  • Hebrew: “טירת קורפה”
  • Irish: “Corfe Castle”
  • Italian: “Corfe Castle”
  • Japanese: “コーフ・キャッスル”
  • Ladin: “Corfe Castle”
  • Latin: “Corfe Castle”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Corfe Castle”
  • Persian: “کورف کاسل”
  • Polish: “Corfe Castle”
  • Portuguese: “Corfe Castle”
  • Slovenian: “Corfe Castle”
  • Spanish: “Corfe Castle”
  • Swedish: “Corfe Castle”
  • Turkish: “Corfe Castle (köy)”
  • Turkish: “Corfe Castle”
  • Welsh: “Corfe Castle, Dorset”
  • Welsh: “Corfe Castle”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Corfe Castle”. Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0.