Traditional county: Dorset · Region: South West
Explore Moorside, Dorset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Moorside 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 | Moorside |
| Traditional County | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.970558 |
| Longitude | -2.290680 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Moorside exists as a quiet collection of dwellings in Dorset's countryside. It lies 5.0 km north-north-east of Sturminster Newton (from Sturminster Newton: bearing 12°T, OS grid ST 796 190), and is situated south of Todber village. The land here breathes a soft, muted green, a gentle rise and fall that seems to hold the very essence of the Wessex landscape. A subtle luminescence often bathes the fields in the late afternoon, as if the sky itself were a vast, pale watercolour. Moorside's character is one of quiet endurance, a place where the passing years leave their mark not in grand pronouncements, but in the deepening texture of the hedgerows and the weathered stone of the occasional farmstead. The air carries the faint, earthy scent of cultivation, a reminder of the generations who have worked this soil.
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Explore Moorside, 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: 50.970558, -2.290680. 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. |