Traditional county: Dorset · Region: South West
Explore Grimstone, Dorset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Grimstone 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 Grimstone, 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 | Grimstone |
| Traditional County | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.749130 |
| Longitude | -2.511874 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Grimstone emerges from the Dorset chalk as a quiet concentration of stone and slate, caught in the slow, rhythmic pulse of the Frome valley. It lies 4.0 miles north-west of Dorchester (from Dorchester: bearing 306°T, OS grid SY 639 945), and is situated east-south-east of Frampton village. The landscape here holds a heavy, ancient gravity, punctuated by the silent, grass-grown humps of a round barrow in Grimstone Clumps that watches over the modern thoroughfare. Light falls differently across these slopes, catching the pale flint walls and turning them into mirrors for the shifting sky. Water from the nearby Sydling Water carves a deliberate path through the meadows, feeding the damp, rich earth that sustains the local pastoral life. Beyond the immediate dwellings, the land rises toward the higher ridges, where the wind carries the scent of brine and crushed limestone from the coast. Grimstone maintains a stark, unadorned character, defined more by the physical weight of its geology than by the fleeting fashions of the surrounding shire. Every boundary line and field gate here seems to anchor the hamlet firmly into the bedrock, ensuring that Grimstone remains a singular, solid fact of the countryside.
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Explore Grimstone, 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: 50.749130, -2.511874. 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. |