Bridewell Plantation
Bridewell Plantation is a forest in Church Knowle, Purbeck District, England. Bridewell Plantation is situated nearby to the locality Hyde Hill, as well as near the village Furzebrook.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Blue Pool and Ridgeway Hill.
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.
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
Nearby places include Wareham and Corfe Castle.
Wareham
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.
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.
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.
Bridewell Plantation
- Type: Forest
- Location: Church Knowle, Purbeck District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.6581° or 50° 39′ 29″ northLongitude
-2.1222° or 2° 7′ 20″ westOpen location code
9C2VMV5H+74OpenStreetMap ID
way 512222365OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
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