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  • Corfe Castle, Dorset
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  • Corfe Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It is the site of a ruined castle of the same name. The village and castle stand over a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage. The village lies in the gap below the castle, and is some eight kilometres (five miles) south-east of Wareham, and the same distance west of Swanage. Both the current main A351 road Lytchett Minster to Swanage and the Swanage Railway thread their way through the gap and the village.
postcode area
  • BH
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post town
  • SWANAGE
dial code
  • 1929
postcode district
  • BH19
population ref
static image name
  • Corfe Castle and Greyhound Inn Dorset England.jpg
Country
  • England
Region
  • South West England
shire county
  • Dorset
os grid reference
  • SY957823
Population
  • 1429
constituency westminster
  • South Dorset
civil parish
  • Corfe Castle
Latitude
  • 50.640278
Official Name
  • Corfe Castle
map type
  • Dorset
static image caption
  • Corfe Castle
Longitude
  • -2.059444
shire district
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  • Corfe Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It is the site of a ruined castle of the same name. The village and castle stand over a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage. The village lies in the gap below the castle, and is some eight kilometres (five miles) south-east of Wareham, and the same distance west of Swanage. Both the current main A351 road Lytchett Minster to Swanage and the Swanage Railway thread their way through the gap and the village. The civil parish of Corfe Castle stretches across the width of the Isle of Purbeck, with coasts facing both the English Channel and Poole Harbour. It therefore includes sections of both the low lying sandy heathland that lies to the north of the castle, and the rugged Jurassic Coast upland to the south.