Furzebrook, Dorset

Furzebrook is a small village on the peninsula Isle of Purbeck in Dorset in the south of England.

The village is located about three kilometers south of Wareham and five kilometers west of Corfe Castle, about twelve kilometers south-west of the big cities Poole and Bournemouth.

The name probably comes from the Furzebrook English words furze / gorse gorse for brook and a river. The first use of the name probably occurs in Furzebrook farm.

Furzebrook became the center of the clay industry. The local occurrence of Purbeck Ball Clay, a clay mineral, were there to be mined, processed by six-month repeated contact and mixed with other keys to give these more plasticity. Near Furzebrook there are several narrow gauge railways which lead to the mines and clay pits around. Another narrow-gauge railway went according to Ridge Wharf. When the Wareham - Swanage branch line of the London and South Western Railway was built, this was done by Furzebrook, so the Purbeck Ball Clay was transported via this route.

Furzebrook today is the railway station for the removal of oil from the nearby Wytch Farm oil field.