Traditional county: Dorset · Region: South West
Explore Knob's Crook, Dorset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Knob's Crook 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 Knob's Crook, 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 | Knob's Crook |
| Traditional County | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.864602 |
| Longitude | -1.918699 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Knob’s Crook emerges from the Dorset landscape as a quiet collection of dwellings defined by the low, insistent hum of the surrounding heathland. It lies 2.1 miles south-west of Verwood (from Verwood: bearing 235°T, OS grid SU 058 072), and is situated north-north-west of Mannington village. The earth here holds the damp, ancient memory of the Holt and West Moors Heaths SSSI, which envelops the hamlet in a vast, sprawling mantle of heather and scrub. To the south-east, the modest rise of Peat’s Hill offers a vantage point where the morning light catches the dew, turning the coarse grasses into a field of shivering silver. Knob’s Crook occupies a terrain that feels harvested from the wild, where the boundary between garden and moorland grows thin and indistinct. Footpaths wind past long-standing markers, including the nearby bowl barrows that sit upon the ridges like silent, earthen sentinels watching over the passing seasons. The air carries a sharp, clean clarity, untroubled by the clamour of busier roads or the weight of industry. Here, the horizon is wide and indifferent, granting the residents of Knob’s Crook a solitude that is both grounding and profound.
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Explore Knob's Crook, 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: 50.864602, -1.918699. 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. |