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General information - Location

Country	England
Part of	United Kingdom
Location in country	South
Location in Europe	West Europe
Coordinates (WGS84)	Long: -2.0543,Lat: 50.6332
Elevation	72 meter above sea level
Local time	17:48:17pm
Name province/region (Country)	England
Wiki-website Subregion (County)	Dorset
Name Sub(sub)region - municipality	Purbeck
Name	Castle

Nearest 5 places

Placename	Distance	Direction
1 Church Knowle	2.1 km	WestNorthWest
2 Kingston	2.1 km	SouthSouthWest
3 Harman's Cross	2.6 km	SouthEast
4 Norden	2.7 km	NorthNorthWest
5 East Creech	3.5 km	WestNorthWest

Nearest 3 capitals

Capitalname	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Cardiff	Wales	125 km	NorthNorthWest
2 St. Peter Port	Guernsey	136 km	SouthSouthWest
3 London	England	156 km	EastNorthEast

Characteristics - Physical Geography

The English Channel is very close with only a distance of around 4 km (direction NorthNorthEast).The place is situated in the rivercatchment named UK South West. The nearest bigger lake is Chew Valley Lake (4.4 km² at a distance of 85.9 km in NorthNorthWestern direction).

The most nearby international border is the English-Welsh border with a straight distance of 120.1 km in Northern direction. The estimated travel distance is around 168 km.
Elevation around place: very low location (near sea level): 7%, low location: 93%, The hills are mainly northern orientated. The most common land use in the area is agriculture.

Name area (subregions, nature area, hills, mountains, landscape)

Name
Dorset

Nearby scheduled flights are operated from (national) airport London Gatwick Airport (at a distance of 143 km and direction EastNorthEast).The closest smaller (subnational) airport is Bournemouth Airport (at a distance of 22 km in NorthEastern direction).

Landscape - Landuse (within 5km)

Forest

10.6 km2

13.7%

Nature

7.8 km2

10.1%

Wet nature

0.3 km2

0.4%

Agriculture

57.3 km2

73.9%

Urban area

0.5 km2

0.7%

Climate - Temperature and Precipitation

Location of Corfe Castle in country England

Corfe Castle at Physical map (height map)

Tourist information - Travel Guide

Nearest 3 UNESCO-sites

Name	Country	Distance	Direction
1 Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	63 km	NorthNorthEast
2 Dorset and East Devon Coast	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	67 km	WestNorthWest
3 City of Bath	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	86 km	North

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Relief: Altitude classes in percent (within 5km)

Relief: slope classes in percent (within 5km)

Current weather at Swanage

Type of weather in Swanage	overcast clouds
Current temperature:	1 degrees Celcius
Rain last 3 hours :	No precipitation
Wind:	1.34 mtr/sec (windforce - bft 1)
Wind direction:	West
Air pressure:	1001 mb
Humidity:	88 %
Daylength at 21 November 2024:	8 hour and 42 minutes
Sunrise :	08:33 Europe/Amsterdam
Sunset :	17:15 Europe/Amsterdam