Square Plantation

Square Plantation is a forest in Corfe Castle, Purbeck District, England. Square Plantation is situated nearby to the locality Norden Common, as well as near New Mills Heath.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Corfe Castle and Norden railway station.

Corfe Castle

Castle

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

Norden railway station

Railway station

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Norden railway station is a railway station located one mile to the north of the village of Corfe Castle, on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset.

Blue Pool

Lake

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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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wareham and Kingston.

Wareham

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Wareham is a romantic and unforgettable old town in Dorset, UK. It lives within its earthen walls, with ramparts north, east and west and a river to the south.

Kingston

Village

Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Kingston is a small village on the Isle of Purbeck in the county of Dorset in southern England.

Furzebrook

Village

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Furzebrook is a 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.

Square Plantation

Type: Forest
Location: Corfe Castle, Purbeck District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.6486° or 50° 38′ 55″ north

Longitude

-2.06° or 2° 3′ 36″ west

Open location code

9C2VJWXQ+CX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 256994608

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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