Wimborne Minster
UK20250411_A11 April 2025·Wimborne Minster, Dorset·oilseed rape
Reported 11 April 2025 in oilseed rape at Wimborne Minster, Dorset. Two archives recorded it, and they give the same date.
The record
- date
- 11 April 2025 (day precision)
- place
- Wimborne Minster
Dorset
England - crop
- oilseed rape
- size
- 120 ft (36.6 m) across
- recorded by
- cc tt
- images
- 8 on the record, 1 attached · 5 diagram, 3 aerial
- writing
- 3 document(s)
Also called
Wimborne, Dorset Wimborne
Canonical name from the cropcirclecenter.com name; the rest are what the other source records print for the same formation.
Where exactly
- coordinate
- 50.812649, -1.993213
- how it was got
- grid ref
exact, to within 1 m, from the tt record - grid reference
- SU 00574 01455
- what3words
- combines.hindered.unwanted
- on a map
- OpenStreetMap · the source's own link
No source publishes a coordinate for any formation in this archive. Every coordinate here is derived from the place name a source printed, and this page says how precise that makes it rather than rounding it away.
Images
8 image(s) on this formation's own source records, and 1 more on 1 attached record(s) below. Click a tile for the full image; the bytes are fetched when you ask for them and are not stored in this page.
Diagrams (5)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | crop circle at Wimborne Minster | april 11 2025 | 575×415 63.2 KiB image/jpeg |
image b44e5f30f7f3 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2025/04/11/UK20250411_A.html |
| cc | diagram | cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | site default | crop circle at Wimborne Minster | april 11 2025 | 575×415 63.2 KiB image/jpeg |
image b44e5f30f7f3 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2025/202504.html |
| tt | diagram | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Wimborne2025-PDVB-1 | 1000×974 191.9 KiB image/jpeg |
image 8ac7d1c77623 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/wimborne-2023 |
| tt | diagram | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Wimborne2025-PVDB-2 | 1000×1010 607.4 KiB image/jpeg |
image f303f3bb7c51 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/wimborne-2023 |
| tt | diagram | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Wimborne2025-PVDB-3 | 1000×963 448.2 KiB image/jpeg |
image 770a7b1f98f8 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/wimborne-2023 |
Photographs (3)
| site | kind | credit | basis | caption | size | file | source page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | aerial | LewisJohnstonePhotography.com | image credit | crop circle at Wimborne Minster | april 11 2025 | 575×415 316.9 KiB image/jpeg |
image 1fd5ae5ddac5 | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/ccdata/2025/04/11/UK20250411_A.html |
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Wimborne Minster, Dorset | 11th April 2025 | Oilseed Rape | OH-BS | 1000×1000 2.5 MiB image/jpeg |
image 379bf28de0eb | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/wimborne-2023 |
| tt | aerial | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples | site default | Wimborne Minster, Dorset | 11th April 2025 | Oilseed Rape | L-BS | 936×1000 1.7 MiB image/jpeg |
image 98a0373b2d76 | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/wimborne-2023 |
Attached photographs (1)
inferred link These pictures did not come with a source record of this formation. Each one is a single-photograph archive entry whose own date and place the index matched to this formation; nothing about the formation itself comes from them. The rule, the score and the evidence are printed with each record so the link can be checked, and the credit stays with the photograph.
Date
11 April 2025, to day precision. What a source records is the day a formation was found and reported.
- reported by
- cc: 11 April 2025 tt: 11 April 2025
- weekday
- Friday, day 101 of the year, ISO week 15, spring
- sun and moon
- 22.1 days after the March equinox; moon waxing gibbous (98% lit), 1.5 days before the full moon (computed at 12:00 UTC; a reported date is a discovery date, not a creation date)
Place
What each source printed, and the coordinate derived from it. No source in this archive publishes a coordinate of its own.
- coordinate
- 50.812649, -1.993213 — exact, ±1 m, by grid_ref, from the tt record
- on a map
- OpenStreetMap
| site | place | county | country | grid ref | what3words | fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc | Dorset | England | 50.799443, -1.987745 place / os_open_names | |||
| tt | Wimborne | Dorset | SU 00574 01455 | combines.hindered.unwanted | 50.812649, -1.993213 exact / grid_ref |
The source's own map link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/mGZaFuoRpYAUJg4w5
Crop and size
- crop
- oilseed rape (cc: oilseed rape, tt: oilseed rape (canola))
- diameter
- 120 ft (36.6 m)
- size as written
- not recorded
Source records
What each source published, side by side. A row whose values differ across the sources is marked: the archive prints the disagreement rather than choosing a winner.
| field | cc cropcirclecenter.com | tt temporarytemples.co.uk |
|---|---|---|
| id / slug differs | UK20250411_A | wimborne-2023 |
| name differs | Wimborne Minster | Wimborne, Dorset |
| location | Wimborne | |
| county | Dorset | Dorset |
| country | England | |
| date reported | 2025-04-11 | 2025-04-11 |
| date precision | day | day |
| crop differs | oilseed rape | oilseed rape (canola) |
| size | ||
| diameter (ft) | 120 | |
| grid reference | SU 00574 01455 | |
| what3words | combines.hindered.unwanted | |
| map link | https://maps.app.goo.gl/mGZaFuoRpYAUJg4w5 | |
| credits differs | LewisJohnstonePhotography.com, cropcirclecenter.com / Bertold Zugelder | Steve Alexander / Temporary Temples |
| source page differs | https://www.cropcirclecenter.com/date/2025/202504.html | https://temporarytemples.co.uk/project/wimborne-2023 |
| link to the entity | rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-11 date 2025-04-11 vs 2025-04-11 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: wimborne; county Dorset == Dorset; country UK (cc_id) == UK (uk_county) |
rule Bscore 0.90 decided by rule on 2026-09-11 date 2025-04-11 vs 2025-04-11 (delta +0 d); name tokens shared: wimborne; county Dorset == Dorset; country UK (cc_id) == UK (uk_county) |
| warnings | none | narrative had no 'General Information:' terminator; conflicting crop: 'oilseed rape (canola)' vs 'oilseed rape'; slug year 2023 differs from resolved year 2025; linked season 2023 differs from resolved year 2025 |
| record | cc/ec15a97ecfd50… raw record view: /formation/cc/ec15a97ecfd508761ae8a47c2215ccc11550e0b1b692966654ab5d5800ece466 in the preview app |
tt/d890a7737afd7… raw record view: /formation/tt/d890a7737afd779b67821ae9b09766911d7b269ab365defbaf99829b7b3b168d in the preview app |
Texts
3 document(s), each attached to the record whose page hosts it. These are other people's words: quoted here in short attributed extract, with a link to the page that published each one in full.
Wimborne Minster, Dorset narrative · tt
author: Temporary Temples (site default) · date: 11 April 2025 (record) · language: en· 809 characters · source page
(Near Catley Copse)
Detail & Location: This circle was first reported on the 11th April 2025 in a field of oilseed rape (canola). It measures approximately 120ft in diameter.
Quoted in extract — 173 characters of 809. The whole document is on the page that published it.
links in the text: https://maps.app.goo.gl/mGZaFuoRpYAUJg4w5 · https://w3w.co/combines.hindered.unwanted · https://photography.bensasson.com/work
Geometry Gallery captions geometry note · tt
author: Temporary Temples (site default) · date: 11 April 2025 (record) · 59 characters · source page
Wimborne2025-PDVB-1 Wimborne2025-PVDB-2 Wimborne2025-PVDB-3
Geometry Gallery geometry note · tt
author: Temporary Temples (site default) · date: 11 April 2025 (record) · language: en· 1,990 characters · source page
Here are some thoughts by geometer and researcher Peter van den Burg. Many thanks to Peter for allowing us to share his work. Wimborne Minster, April 11, 2025
It is no surprise that both the early arrival and apparent quality in execution of this formation leaves some questions open about whether this is a 'real' circle or not. I don’t know.
Quoted in extract — 342 characters of 1,990. The whole document is on the page that published it.
links in the text: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100068644144933
Claims about this formation
3 claim(s) extracted by lexicon from the texts above, written by Temporary Temples. A claim row is a record of what an author wrote, with the sentence verbatim. It is not evidence about the formation, and nothing here is tested on this page.
| claim type | reported as | claims | testable with this archive? | author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| authorship_human | authorship | 1 | not_testable | Temporary Temples |
| science | science | 2 | partly | Temporary Temples |
Up to 3 quote(s) per type, verbatim from the document:
- “Which is either a lucky coincidence by a circle faker, or a brilliant design feature if it was done intentionally.” authorship_human · Temporary Temples · source page
- “Please see the Geometry Gallery below for more details as we have them.” science · Temporary Temples · source page
- “You can see more of Peter's amazing work on his Facebook page: The Geometry of the Crop Circles” science · Temporary Temples · source page
Geometry
5 diagram file(s) on this page. measured from the diagram itself, and experimental: the extractor's rotational order is right on 88.8 % of a 200-diagram hand-labelled set against a gate of 90 %, so read a number here beside the picture rather than instead of it.
| diagram | rotational symmetry | elements | rings | mirror | fill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cc b44e5f30 | ≈ continuous (concentric circles) | 2 | 2 | 0.993 | 0.1322 |
Experimental, and marked ≈ wherever it appears. These numbers are read off a drawing, not off the field: the extractor's rotational order agrees with a hand-labelled set on 88.8 per cent of 200 diagrams against a gate of 90 per cent, its element count is within one on 97.5 per cent, and its ring count is not calibrated at all. Nothing in the analysis tree is derived from the rotational order while that gate is unmet.
Diagrams that look like these: cc b44e5f30 · tt 8ac7d1c7 · tt f303f3bb · tt 770a7b1f— the nearest by perceptual hash. The whole archive is browsable by shape in the shape section, and this formation's own diagrams go straight into that grid: show them in the grid.
Neighbours
In time
- previous
- Santa Catarina 14 October 2024, Santa Catarina
- next
- Sutton Veny 15 May 2025, Sutton Veny
- previous in UK
- Etchilhampton 29 August 2024
- next in UK
- Sutton Veny 15 May 2025
- same day
- no other formation is dated this day
- within 7 days and 25 km
- none, or this formation has no coordinate at place confidence or better
In place
The nearest formations the archive can place.
Badbury Rings
3.9 km away, 2024-07-19
Witchampton
5.2 km away, 1998-06-23
Badbury Rings
5.2 km away, 2014-06-17
Badbury Rings
6.3 km away, 2017-06-16
Gussage All
12.0 km away, 1993-07-07
Blandford St Mary
12.7 km away, 1994-07-20
- same county and year
- Culliford Tree Barrow 18 May 2025 · Shaftesbury 23 June 2025 · Cerne Abbas 10 July 2025
Provenance
- entity built at
- 2026-09-15T03:03:25Z (derived from the link decisions, not from this build)
- index run ids
- 20260911T192039Z-index-build, 20260915T030325Z-index-build
- reviews applied
- none
- open queue pairs
- none
- entity record
- index/formations/UK20250411_A.json · row in index/manifest.jsonl
- input digests
- entity e179a4634e90 · images 27936c5c00c1 · attachments b160d7e716f9 · texts 1573106ad464 · geo 97d37156490d