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Hamworthy is a suburb of Poole, in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England.It is sited on a peninsula of approximately 3 square kilometres (1.2 sq mi) that is bordered by the town of Upton to the north, Poole Harbour to the south, Lytchett Bay to the west and Holes Bay to the east.
The line was once worked, as part of the local pick up goods rounds, by a Southern Railway B4 class 0-4-0 steam locomotive.. During the late 1960s and early 1970s the line was worked by Class 03 Drewry 0-6-0 diesel shunting locomotives numbers 03 179 and 03 083, occasionally as double headers (cab to cab) when hauling a long train of Ford transit vans on bogie flat wagons or heavy girder and ...
Eda (short for Erie Dock Apartments [3] and formerly Anchorage Gateway), [4] is a 101-metre-tall (331-foot), 29-storey residential skyscraper in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, England. It was designed by Chapman Taylor , [ 2 ] with Jon Matthews Architects as the delivery architect. [ 5 ]
Opened as New Poole Junction in 1872, as part of the Southampton and Dorchester Railway, the station was the junction for the new line into Poole that superseded the old station at Lower Hamworthy. When the line was extended to Bournemouth West Broadstone became the junction for the trains to the Bournemouth station.
Poole Quay is a visitor attraction to the south of the town centre lined with a mixture of traditional pubs and listed buildings alongside new bars, redeveloped warehouses and apartment blocks. Once the busy centre of Poole's maritime industry , all port activities moved to Hamworthy in the 1970s as the Quay became increasingly popular with ...
Holes Bay lies on the south coast of England within the Borough of Poole, apart from its northwestern shore which is part of Upton.The bay drains the heathlands around Creekmoor and is bounded in the east by Sterte and Stanley Green, in the north by Creekmoor, in the northwest by Upton, in the west and southwest by Hamworthy and in the southeast by the Old Town area of Poole.
[1] [2] [3] This was remote from the house in Poole which meant that the crew had to be collected by horse-drawn coach from the Antelope Hotel in the High Street and taken to Sandbanks. [4] In 1882 a new boathouse was built on land leased from Poole Corporation on the Fisherman's Dock at the east end of Poole Quay.
The 13 circular walks are: [2] Walk 1a - Quay and Park, Poole, 3.8 miles, easy, 1hr 20 min; Walk 1b - Poole Quay, Upton Country Park and Holes Bay, 5.5 miles, 3 hrs; Walk 1c - Lilliput Footpaths, View Point and Evening Hill, 2.5 miles, 1-2 hrs; Walk 2a - Greenlands Farm, Agglestone Rock and Studland, 4.5 miles, 2.5 hrs