Traditional county: Dorset · Region: South West
Explore Coryates, Dorset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Coryates 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 | Coryates |
| Traditional County | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.665189 |
| Longitude | -2.526468 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Coryates, a quiet Dorset hamlet, exhales a particular stillness. It lies 4.8 km north-north-west of Chickerell (from Chickerell: bearing 340°T, OS grid SY 628 851), and is situated east-south-east of Portesham village. The land here, part of Dorset's celebrated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, rolls with a subtle grace, catching the low afternoon sun in a way that seems to deepen the emerald hue of its pastures. The air, often carrying the faint, briny tang of the nearby coast, is a constant, gentle reminder of the sea's proximity, though the hamlet itself lies inland, a tranquil pocket removed from the ocean's immediate roar. Farming, an age-old tradition, continues to shape the landscape, with hedgerows, thick with hawthorn and wild roses, marking out fields that have been worked for generations, their contours speaking of a patient, agrarian past.
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Explore Coryates, 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: 50.665189, -2.526468. 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. |