Traditional county: Dorset · Region: South West
Explore Moor Crichel, Dorset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Moor Crichel 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 | Moor Crichel |
| Traditional County | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.877156 |
| Longitude | -2.012357 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Moor Crichel holds its quiet place in the Dorset countryside, a collection of dwellings gathered under a wide sky. It lies 8.8 km north-north-west of Wimborne Minster (from Wimborne Minster: bearing 349°T, OS grid ST 992 086), and is situated east-north-east of Manswood village. The fields around Moor Crichel often catch the afternoon sun in a way that makes the distant trees seem to glow with an inner light, a gentle luminescence that softens the edges of the landscape. There is a sense of continuity here, a rhythm that has perhaps been set by the turning of the seasons and the slow work of agriculture, a quiet diligence that underpins the hamlet's existence. The air itself seems to carry the scent of damp earth and distant hedgerows, a subtle perfume of the English countryside. Moor Crichel endures, a small pocket of permanence in the ever-shifting panorama of the land.
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Explore Moor Crichel, 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: 50.877156, -2.012357. 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. |