West Country
Dorset
Purbeck District

Swanage

Swanage is a coastal town of 9,600 people in . It is at the eastern end of the Isle of Purbeck and one of its two towns. Town is a popular tourist resort, with many thousands of visitors coming to the town during the peak summer season, drawn by the bay's sandy beaches and other attractions.
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  • Type: Town with 10,500 residents
  • Description: coastal town and civil parish in the south east of Dorset, England
  • Also known as: “Swanage, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Durlston Country Park and Swanage Museum & Heritage Centre.

Nature reserve
is a 320-acre country park and stretching along the coast of the on the outskirts of Swanage in , .

Museum
Photo: Nicholas Mutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Swanage Museum & Heritage Centre is a local history museum and family history centre in Swanage, . The museum was established in 1976; it merged with and has been collocated with the heritage centre in its current location since 2005.

Railway station
Photo: Steinsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located in Swanage, on the in the county of . Originally the terminus of a London and South Western Railway branch line from , the line and station were closed by British Rail in 1972.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Peveril Point and Herston.

Locality
Photo: Ojl, CC BY 2.5.
is a headland on the east-facing coast of the in , England, and is part of the town of Swanage. It forms the southern end of Swanage Bay.

Neighborhood
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is a western suburb of the town of Swanage, in , . It has its own railway station – Near – on the Swanage Railway.

Locality
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is a headland that is part of the on the in , . It is within the grounds of and is about 3 kilometres from Swanage town centre. is located on the point and was established in 1881.

Swanage

Latitude
50.6087° or 50° 36′ 31″ north
Longitude
-1.9572° or 1° 57′ 26″ west
Population
10,500
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SWE
Open location code
9C2WJ25V+F4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 29219529
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2636445
Wiki­data ID
Q1009298
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Swanage” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Սուոնեյջ”
  • Asturian: “Swanage”
  • Basque: “Swanage”
  • Belarusian: “Санадж”
  • Bengali: “সোয়ানাগে”
  • Bulgarian: “Суонидж”
  • Catalan: “Swanage”
  • Cebuano: “Swanage”
  • Chinese: “Swanage”
  • Chinese: “斯旺納奇”
  • Chinese: “斯旺纳奇”
  • Chinese: “斯沃尼奇”
  • Czech: “Swanage”
  • Dutch: “Swanage”
  • French: “Swanage”
  • Georgian: “სუონიჯი”
  • German: “Swanage”
  • Gujarati: “સ્વાનેજ”
  • Irish: “Swanage”
  • Italian: “Swanage”
  • Japanese: “スォニッジ”
  • Japanese: “スワニッジ”
  • Japanese: “スワネージ”
  • Japanese: “スワネイジ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ವಾನೇಜ್”
  • Korean: “스와니지”
  • Ladin: “Swanage”
  • Latin: “Swanage”
  • Lithuanian: “Svonedžas”
  • Macedonian: “Свониџ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Swanage”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Swanage Bay”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Swanage”
  • Persian: “سوانج”
  • Polish: “Swanage”
  • Portuguese: “Swanage”
  • Romanian: “Swanage”
  • Russian: “Санадж”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Swanage”
  • Slovenian: “Swanage”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سوانج”
  • Spanish: “Swanage”
  • Swedish: “Swanage”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்வானேஜி”
  • Telugu: “స్వానేజ్”
  • Turkish: “Swanage”
  • Urdu: “سواناجی”
  • Welsh: “Swanage”

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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 “Swanage”. Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0.