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The village,
a Saxon stronghold dominating the strategic gap in the
Purbecks here is, in its turn,
dominated by the Norman castle
which secured the gap in the
Purbeck Hills here. The name of the place was once
'Corvesgate' signifying 'cutting'.
The village
practically consists of only two streets which meet at a little market-place
with its steps under the old stone
cross
but has a great charm in no small
measure due to the use of the local stone not only for walls but for roofing as well.
Near the cross, the Inn has a room which serves as a porch and straddles the pavement
beneath on pillars and some of the many stone cottages of the village have their stone
stairs to the upper storey on the outside.
The ground floor of the former town hall near the village cross noiw houses a small
museum with a wide variety of materials displayed from local seals, and Roman pottery
to household items through the ages.
The War Memorial here which takes the form of a gate guarding the burial-ground is
unusual in that the inscription reads '
Do'set men don't sheame their kind' - these, the words of William Barnes,
are a very rare use of dialect for such a purpose.
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POPULATION
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1971
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The history of the
village is very closely tied with that of the
castle and the parish
church, like the castle, suffered much during the Civil War.
Corfe castle was incorporated as a borough in the 16th century and returned two
members of parliament
until disenfranchisd in 1832.
The road eastwards from the foot of the castle mound (under the railway viaduct) leads
past the village of Studland and over
Studland peninsula to the car ferry which
crosses the mouth of
Poole Harbour
to Sandbanks. Besides Studland Road and near the
railway viaduct is the pumping station built of Purbeck stone in 1921.
The tower of the church, most of which was rebuilt by the victorians,
which suffered greatly at the hands of the Roundheads
(Sir Walter Earl made the church his headquarters during the seige of
Corfe Castle) dates from
the 15th century, the rest having been rebuilt in 1860 utilising much of the material
recovered from the old structure. It possesses a 15-century font fashioned from the local
Purbeck marble and a stone coffin lid carved with a Celtic cross measuring only some
0.5m (18 inches) in length. This latter may have contained the
heart of a man or maybe
the tiny body of a Saxon child. One of the Norman piers of the nave arcade possesses a
capital carved with daisies and the north doorway has a 14th-century arch atop Norman
pillars.
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Isle of Purbeck,
Dorset, England | 3 km NE | | (E) Creech
Dorset, England | 5.6 km NE | | East Creech
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Dorset, England | 2.5 km SW | | Kingston
Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England | 2.5 km SE | | Langton Matravers
Dorset, England | 3.9 km SW | | Norden
Dorset, England | 3.2 km NE | | Worth Matravers
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Dorset, England | 5.2 km NW | | Branksea Castle
Brownsea Island, Dorset, England | 8.4 km NW | | Brownsea Castle
Brownsea Island, Dorset, England | 8.4 km NW | | Brownsea Island
Dorset, England | 8.3 km NW | | Corfe
Castle
Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England | 1.2 km NE | | Dunshay Manor
Isle of
Purbeck, Dorset, England | 2.1 km SW | | Green Island
Poole Harbour, Dorset,
England | 6.4 km NW | | Kimmeridge Bay
Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England | 6.7 km SE | | St Aldhelms Chapel
St
Aldhelms Head, Isle Of Purbeck, Dorset, England | 6 km SE |
WAREHAM
The picturesque and ancient market town of Wareham, in medieval times the principal port of Poole Harbour, and the 'Gateway to the Isle of Purbeck' lies to the north - much of it was destroyed by a great fire and rebuilt in the Georgian style.
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Geology of the Country Around Weymouth, Swanage, Corfe and Lulworth
by WJ Arkell, 1947
The Kings England Dorset
by Arthur Mee (1967), ed. E T Long, publisher Hodder and Stoughton, 1971, ISBN0340000791
Recommend a Book for this Page
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