Godlingston Wood

Godlingston Wood is a deciduous forest in Swanage, Purbeck District, England. Godlingston Wood is situated nearby to the locality Giant’s Grave Bottom, as well as near the hamlet Knitson.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Swanage Railway Station and Swanage Museum & Heritage Centre.

Swanage Railway Station

Railway station

Photo: Steinsky, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Swanage railway station is located in Swanage, on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. Originally the terminus of a London and South Western Railway branch line from Wareham, the line and station were closed by British Rail in 1972.

Swanage Museum & Heritage Centre

Museum

Photo: Nicholas Mutton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Swanage Museum & Heritage Centre is a local history museum and family history centre in Swanage, Dorset. The museum was established in 1976; it merged with and has been collocated with the heritage centre in its current location since 2005.

Herston Halt railway station

Railway station

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Herston Halt railway station is a railway station located at Herston near Swanage, on the Isle of Purbeck in the English county of Dorset. It is an intermediate station on the Swanage Railway, a heritage railway that currently operates from Swanage to Norden.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Corfe Castle and Acton.

Corfe Castle

Photo: Traveler100, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corfe Castle is a village in Dorset and the site of a ruined castle of the same name. The medieval castle, built by William the Conqueror, dates to the 11th century and commands a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage.

Acton

Hamlet

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Acton is a hamlet in the parish of Langton Matravers, on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset in the south of England. Acton was built as living quarters for the quarrymen working at the local quarries.

Harman’s Cross

Village

Photo: Huligan0, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Harman's Cross is a small village on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A351 road between Swanage and Corfe Castle. The village is within the civil parish of Worth Matravers, which is itself within the South Dorset constituency of the House of Commons.

Godlingston Wood

Type: Deciduous forest
Category: forest
Location: Swanage, Purbeck District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.6242° or 50° 37′ 27″ north

Longitude

-1.9801° or 1° 58′ 48″ west

Open location code

9C2WJ2F9+MX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 425862634

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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