Cripton Spinney

Cripton Spinney is a forest in Winterborne Came, West Dorset District, England. Cripton Spinney is situated nearby to the locality Holcombe Bottom, as well as near the hamlet Winterborne Herringston.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit and Maiden Castle.

Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit

Archaeological site

The Ridgeway Hill Viking burial pit at Ridgeway Hill near Weymouth, Dorset, was a mass grave of 54 skeletons, including 51 skulls, of Scandinavian men executed some time between AD 970 and 1025.

Maiden Castle

Archaeological site

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Maiden Castle is an Iron Age hillfort 1.6 mi southwest of Dorchester, in the English county of Dorset. Hill forts were fortified hill-top settlements constructed across Britain during the Iron Age.

Chalbury Hillfort

Heath

Photo: Nigel Mykura, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Chalbury Hillfort is an Iron Age hillfort roughly 1 mile south-east of the village of Bincombe, in Dorset, England. It is a scheduled monument.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dorchester and Poundbury.

Dorchester is the county town of Dorset. A market town with an undoubtedly long history, Dorchester has connections to Thomas Hardy, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and Roman Britain, and today features a wide range of visitor attractions, independent retailers and eateries.

Poundbury

Suburb

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Poundbury is an experimental urban extension on the western outskirts of Dorchester in the county of Dorset, England. The development is led by the Duchy of Cornwall, and had the keen endorsement of King Charles III when he was Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall.

Osmington

Village

Photo: mwanasimba, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Osmington is a village and civil parish within Dorset, England, situated on the Jurassic Coast 4 miles north-east of Weymouth. In the 2011 census the parish—which includes the small settlements of Upton, Ringstead and Osmington Mills—had a population of 673.

Cripton Spinney

Type: Forest
Location: Winterborne Came, West Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.6756° or 50° 40′ 32″ north

Longitude

-2.4241° or 2° 25′ 27″ west

Open location code

9C2VMHGG+69

OpenStreetMap ID

way 46809872

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Holcombe Bottom and Winterborne Herringston.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Cripton Wood and Tumulus.

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