Grange Arch
Grange Arch, also known as Creech Folly, is an 18th-century folly that is located near the second highest point of the Purbeck Hills, Ridgeway Hill, in Dorset.Photo: Bermicourt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ridgeway Hill and St Michael and All Angels church.
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.
St Michael and All Angels church
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Michael and All Angels church is situated 2,900 feet south of Grange Arch.
St Nicholas’s Church, Kimmeridge
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St Nicholas's Church is a parish church in Kimmeridge, Dorset. It is dedicated to St Nicholas of Myra. The church is in the Archdeaconry of Dorset, in the Diocese of Salisbury. St Nicholas’s Church, Kimmeridge is situated 1¼ miles south of Grange Arch.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Steeple and East Creech.
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.
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. Furzebrook is situated 1½ miles northeast of Grange Arch.
Grange Arch
- Type: Monument
- Description: folly in Steeple with Tyneham, Dorset, England, UK
- Categories: folly, building, and historic site
- Location: Steeple, Purbeck District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.6356° or 50° 38′ 8″ northLongitude
-2.12493° or 2° 7′ 30″ westOpen location code
9C2VJVPG+62OpenStreetMap ID
way 311039083OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q15222034
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