(Hamlet near Sixpenny Handley)
Traditional county: Dorset · Region: South West
Explore New Town, Dorset with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the New Town 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 | New Town |
| Traditional County | Dorset |
| Region | South West |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 50.969579 |
| Longitude | -2.017907 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
New Town exists as a quiet collection of houses and fields in the Dorset countryside. It lies 13.1 km east-south-east of Shaftesbury (from Shaftesbury: bearing 108°T, OS grid ST 988 189), and is situated north-north-west of Sixpenny Handley village. The gentle slopes of the surrounding land, often softened by a haze that catches the late afternoon sun, suggest a landscape long accustomed to the turning of seasons and the quiet labour of agriculture. Here, the air carries the faint, earthy scent of cultivated soil, a constant reminder of the generations who have worked this ground. The buildings themselves, a mix of flint and rendered brick, seem to lean into the breeze, their windows reflecting the vast, often cloud-streaked sky.
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Explore New Town, 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: 50.969579, -2.017907. 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. |