Traditional county: Dorset · Region: South West
Explore Chaldon Herring, Dorset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Chaldon Herring map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Chaldon Herring, Dorset, England. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture to zoom in and out.
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| Place | Chaldon Herring |
| Traditional County | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.649941 |
| Longitude | -2.296178 |
| Place Type | Village |
Chaldon Herring occupies a hollow in the Dorset chalk, where the earth rises in quiet, pale swells against the horizon. It lies 7.6 miles east-north-east of Weymouth (from Weymouth: bearing 67°T, OS grid SY 791 834), and is situated south-west of Winfrith Newburgh village. Ancient earthworks define the high ground above the houses, where the Bowl Barrows C.240M North Of Chaldon Herring serve as silent, grass-grown markers of a distant human presence. The light here has a sharp, clarifying quality, catching the flint in the walls and the weathered stone of the church. Beyond the immediate gardens, the landscape opens toward the sea, where the white chalk cliffs of White Nothe break the line of the sky. Two Bowl Barrows C.280M North-East Of Chaldon Herring stand as solitary guardians, their rounded forms undisturbed by the slow turnover of the seasons. Chaldon Herring remains a place of singular stillness, where the wind carries the faint, salt-tang of the channel across the open ridges. Life here moves in accordance with the turning of the fields and the shifting patterns of the coastal clouds.
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Explore Chaldon Herring, Dorset, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 50.649941, -2.296178. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |