Creech Heath

Places of Interest Nearby

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.

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. Corfe Castle is situated 2½ miles southeast of Creech Heath.

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

Furzebrook

Village

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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.

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.

Stoborough Green

Village

Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stoborough Green is a village in the English county of Dorset. It is situated to the south of the village of Stoborough and about 2 kilometres south of the town of Wareham.

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