Traditional county: Dorset · Region: South West
Explore Dewlands Common, Dorset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Dewlands Common 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.
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| Place | Dewlands Common |
| Traditional County | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.874946 |
| Longitude | -1.888763 |
| Place Type | Suburban Area |
Dewlands Common holds the quiet, low-slung geography of the Dorset heathland, where the horizon feels pressed against the sky by the weight of ancient, sandy soil. It lies 0.6 miles south-west of Verwood (from Verwood: bearing 221°T, OS grid SU 079 083). Beneath the suburban sprawl, the earth retains the memory of a harder, industrial past, echoing in the proximity of the Sandalholme Pottery Works and the scattered remnants of the Potteries at Prairie Farm. These sites remind the observer that the wealth of Dewlands Common was once drawn from the stubborn clay fired in kilns that long ago ceased their smoke. The land here forms an integral part of the Verwood Heaths SSSI, where the heather and gorse assert their wild authority over the managed gardens and tarmac drives. Sunlight catches the open expanse with a pale, thin quality, illuminating the transition from the modern residence to the raw, unyielding heath. Walking the edges of Dewlands Common, one notices how the encroaching trees and scrub define the perimeter of a world caught between the ambition of housing and the persistence of the wild.
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Explore Dewlands Common, 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: 50.874946, -1.888763. 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. |