Traditional county: Dorset · Region: South West
Explore Colesbrook, Dorset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Colesbrook 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.
| Place | Colesbrook |
| Traditional County | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 51.049955 |
| Longitude | -2.277611 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Colesbrook, a quiet hamlet in Dorset, offers a gentle repose from the wider world. It lies 1.4 km north of Gillingham (from Gillingham: bearing 353°T, OS grid ST 806 278), and is situated east-south-east of Milton on Stour village. The land around Colesbrook is a subtle tapestry of rolling fields, their greens deepening under the soft, diffused light that often graces this corner of the South West. Here, the air itself seems to carry a certain stillness, a quiet exhalation from the earth, particularly noticeable as the day begins to wane and shadows lengthen across the modest dwellings. The local farming heritage, though perhaps less pronounced than in ages past, still imbues the landscape with a sense of enduring cultivation and the steady, unhurried progress of the seasons.
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Explore Colesbrook, 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: 51.049955, -2.277611. 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 | June 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. |