Battle Plain

Places of Interest

Parish Church of St John the Evangelist

Church

Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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

Wareham

Photo: muffinn, CC BY 2.0.

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

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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.

Battle Plain

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