Traditional county: Dorset · Region: South West
Explore Folly, Dorset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Folly 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 Folly, 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 | Folly |
| Traditional County | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.827649 |
| Longitude | -2.387007 |
| Place Type | Other Settlement |
Folly occupies a quiet fold of the Dorset landscape, where the chalk hills hold the morning light in a firm, pale embrace. It lies 7.7 miles south-south-west of Sturminster Newton (from Sturminster Newton: bearing 208°T, OS grid ST 728 031), and is situated north-east of Plush village. The terrain here rises sharply toward the heights of Ball Hill, where the wind carries a salt-touched clarity from the distant coast. To the east, the earth remembers its ancient inhabitants, marked by the silent, grass-grown ramparts of the Camp on Nettlecombe Tout. Folly remains a place defined by these steep, verdant slopes, which catch the shifting shadows of clouds as they drift across the open pasture. The soil, thin and chalky, demands a patient hand from those who work the land, yet it yields a resilient beauty in the sparse, hardy flora that clings to the ridges. Below the summit, the land falls away into hollows that seem to hold the silence of centuries, untouched by the frantic pulse of the modern world. Folly endures as a fragment of older England, a place where the horizon is not obscured by man-made clutter but defined by the natural, rhythmic crests of the Dorset downs.
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Explore Folly, 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: 50.827649, -2.387007. 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. |