Bare Cross
Bare Cross is a locality in Church Knowle, Purbeck District, England. Bare Cross is situated nearby to the hamlet Cocknowle, as well as near the locality Stonehill Down.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.
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.
Bare Cross
- Type: Locality
- Location: Church Knowle, Purbeck District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.63866° or 50° 38′ 19″ northLongitude
-2.09962° or 2° 5′ 59″ westOpen location code
9C2VJWQ2+F5OpenStreetMap ID
node 4552896583OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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