A tour in pictures

Wareham occupies a strategic site on both the Rivers Frome and Piddle, close to their confluence into Poole Harbour. Its grid like street pattern could be of Saxon origin and it still stands within the compass of its earth ramparts. Despite its relatively small size Wareham retains a good range of social, recreational and educational facilities

The Purbeck School is a mixed comprehensive for students aged from 13 to 19. We are located in spacious accommodation in Wareham overlooking the Purbeck Hills. We serve the wide area covered by our four contributory middle schools - Bovington, Sandford, Swanage and Wareham - with whom we work closely to ensure that our students make a smooth transition to life at Purbeck.

Separate Poor Law Unions for Wareham and for Purbeck were formed on 25th March 1836. Howver, within a few months, the two were merged into a single Wareham and Purbeck Union.

Photo gallery of Blue Pool located close to areham

Pictures of Wareham.

Links to Wareham web sites from the pages of ShireSearch

Welcome to the Wareham and District swimming club web site, here you can chart the clubs progress throughout the coming year and rankings in the Speedo league

Most people know dowsing as a means of finding water with a twig, but do you know it can be used for Health and healing, Archaeological searches, Detecting Earth energies, Site surveys for building, Agriculture and soil testing, Helping with Geopathic stress, Tracing lost objects and far more

Contemporary Crafts and Fine Art in Dorset

Indian food and music developed its distinctive quality with the establishment of Delhi Sultanaties. Exotic dishes of the Persian Court with a blend of Indian Spices produced the famous dishes.

King John was a nasty bit of stuff. Indeed one of his contemporaries said of him, ‘Foul as it is, Hell itself would be defiled by the presence of John’. Such sentiments could not be said to be uncommon in his kingdom. So when, in 1214, a local visionary fanatic by the name of Peter de Pomfret predicted that before the next Ascension Day John’s rule would be over Peter was banged up in Corfe Castle until the fateful day had safely come and gone.

Furzebrook was originally opened as one of the first two research stations of the Nature Conservancy in 1954. It is located near Wareham, in the Isle of Purbeck, in an area of exceptional biodiversity. Within this area examples of all the principal biotopes of southern England are to be found. Close to the Station are the salt marshes and estuarine communities of Poole Harbour, the Dorset heathlands, chalk downlands, limestone grasslands and coastal cliffs.

Wareham is one of a very ancient set of towns which King Alfred gave orders for defences to be raised against the Vikings. One church, St Martin's is still mainly Saxon. The town has not grown much bigger since that time.

Leaving Poole by road en route to Swanage, Wareham is at the half way point. A small town, ideal for stopping for a wander around, have a bite to eat beside the river.

The quality of natural forms that most interests me is that of elegance; that beautiful combination of form and function that adapts a creature to its lifestyle.

The Ladies Morris Side was formed in 1978 and is based in Wareham in Dorset. They dance in the North-West tradition and wear the wooden clogs that were everyday footwear at the time the dances were first performed

The Worgret Manor Hotel is a Georgian Manor house situated just outside of Wareham, on the edge of the Isle of Purbeck and within easy reach of neighbouring attractions which include Corfe Castle, Lulworth Cove, Swanage with its steam railway and the beautiful National Trust properties and beaches, golf, walking and other sporting activities are close at hand.

Hotels and guest houses in and around Wareham from Smooth Hound's Hotel & Guest House Directory

Links to Wareham web sites at Google

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A small town at the western end of Poole harbour, distinctive for still retaining its earth-embankment Saxon town walls. Like many Dorset towns it suffered a bad fire in 1762, resulting in numerous 18th and 19th century buildings along the main street

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Links to information on Wareham, Dorset from Traveller's World, the internet tourism and accommodation guide to the UK

THE country's first clinic for the treatment of ME, the disease characterised by chronic fatigue, was opened by the Duke of Kent during a brief ceremony at the clinic at Wareham Hospital, Dorset.

ANCIENT texts including the Domesday Book, Magna Carta and Henry VIII's legal papers have been used to challenge a fisherman's conviction for poaching on the River Piddle.

This recently converted granary offers two very comfortable twin-bedded rooms both with en-suite facilities, colour TV, clock-radio, kettle, tea and coffee tray and other thoughtful extras. A good breakfast, varied each day, is served in the dining room. As each room has its own outside access, one on to the terrace and one with the old granary steps leading to a door in the bedroom, visitors can return to their rooms at any time.

The Priory of Lady St. Mary stands in four acres of beautifully landscaped gardens on the banks of the River Frome. The sixteenth century building has undergone sympathetic conversion to an hotel. Care has been taken to provide every convenience for guests yet still retain the charm and atmosphere of an English Country Manor House.

A modern town with some history, shopping centre, Tourist Information Centre

The best local fishing from the on-line edition of the Where to Fish Guide compiled in conjunction with Thomas Harmsworth Publishing and based on their latest directory

Welcome to the Wareham Middle School web site. We hope you will enjoy browsing our site and will find it interesting, informative, and easy to use. We are a happy and friendly school with staff committed to doing the very best for the children in our care.

Club details from the web pages of Golf Today. Europe's Premier Online Golf Magazine

A member of The Dorset Football Combination League which was formed in 1957 when 12 senior clubs in the County broke away from the Dorset League. The page includes general directions on the location of the ground and some details about reaching the ground by public transport

Occupying a lovely rural setting, this traditional village inn is an original cob-walled Dorset longhouse, parts of which date back 300 years. A seasonally-changing menu highlights good International cooking and wholesome country fare. Expect leek and mushroom crumble, home-made curries, roast pheasant, red bream with Cajun spices, and tuna with sun-dried tomatoes.

Starting at North Bridge. 4 miles (Dorset Magazine)

A full range of metalworking facilities including laser cutters and machining centres. In addition to these, the company designs and manufactures the well-known ‘Discus’ range of centrifugal and axial fans. (Wareham)

Has an extensive range of electroplating and anodising services, including zinc, nickel and electroless nickel plating, plus matt and chemical bright anodising in a range of colours. (

Antique Auctioneers in Thomas Hardy's Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, since 1912

Wareham, known without irony as the "Gateway to Purbeck", is an ancient market town built between two rivers which flow into Poole Harbour.

Wilts and Dorset Champions since 1996 - Qualified for the first round of the Tetley Bitter Cup 2000 - Finished 2nd of South West (East) II for the season 1998-99

Wareham town walls were originally built in Saxon times to defend the town from attacks by the Vikings

From the pages of Michael Day's Dorset Churches Web site at the University of Bath which aims to produce brief information about Dorset's church buildings

From the pages of Michael Day's Dorset Churches Web site at the University of Bath which aims to produce brief information about Dorset's church buildings

From the pages of Michael Day's Dorset Churches Web site at the University of Bath which aims to produce brief information about Dorset's church buildings

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