Highwood
Highwood is a hamlet in East Stoke, Purbeck District, England. Highwood is situated nearby to the locality Chicks Hill, as well as near the village East Stoke.Places of Interest
Highlights include Wool railway station and Lulworth Castle.
Wool railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Lamper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wool railway station serves the village of Wool in Dorset, England. It is on the South West Main Line, 125 miles 69 chains down the line from London Waterloo. South Western Railway manages the station and operates all services.
Lulworth Castle
Castle
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lulworth Castle, in East Lulworth, Dorset, England, situated south of the village of Wool, is an early 17th-century hunting lodge erected in the style of a revival fortified castle, one of only five extant Elizabethan or Jacobean buildings of this type. Lulworth Castle is situated 2½ miles south of Highwood.
Monkey World
Zoo
Photo: John Lamper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre is a 65-acre ape and monkey sanctuary, rescue centre and primatarium near Wool, Dorset, England. Monkey World is situated 2 miles northwest of Highwood.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Stoke and East Lulworth.
East Stoke
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Stoke is a village in the English county of Dorset. It lies three miles west of the small town of Wareham and two miles east of Wool. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 410.
East Lulworth
Village
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Lulworth is a village and civil parish nine miles east of Dorchester, near Lulworth Cove, in the county of Dorset, England. The village, which consists of 17th-century thatched cottages, is dominated by the barracks of the Royal Armoured Corps Gunnery School who use a portion of the Purbeck Hills as a gunnery range. East Lulworth is situated 2½ miles south of Highwood.
Worgret
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Worgret is a hamlet in the English county of Dorset. It is situated immediately to the west of the town of Wareham. Worgret forms part of the civil parish of Arne, within the Dorset unitary authority. Worgret is situated 2½ miles east of Highwood.
Highwood
- Type: Hamlet
- Category: locality
- Location: East Stoke, Purbeck District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.67109° or 50° 40′ 16″ northLongitude
-2.19115° or 2° 11′ 28″ westOpen location code
9C2VMRC5+CGOpenStreetMap ID
node 5142681377OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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