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Sandford is a village in the English county of Dorset, on the A351 road some two miles from Wareham and seven miles from Poole. Sandford forms the only significant settlement within the civil parish of Wareham St. Martin , which otherwise covers much of the rural area to the north of Wareham.
As of 2022 it operates 66 holiday parks across England, Scotland, and Wales, [1] [5] and is the largest holiday park operator in the UK. [6] [4] Parkdean invested £140 million into its parks in the UK in 2021 and 2022. [7] John Waterworth was CEO of Parkdean Holidays and Parkdean Resorts for nearly 20 years before retiring in June 2019.
As of January 2023, there are 48 Conservation Areas in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, in Dorset, England. Conservation areas Name Image Area Year Notes Refs Ashington Poole 2002 Historic hamlet in the green belt north of Poole Ashley Cross Poole 1987, amended June 2012 Victorian suburb of Parkstone Avon Buildings Christchurch 1991 Suburb of Christchurch Boscombe Manor Bournemouth ...
Pontins is a British company operating holiday parks in the UK, founded in 1946 by Fred Pontin.It was acquired by Britannia Hotels in 2011. [1]Pontins specialises in offering half-board and self-catering holidays featuring entertainment at resorts, or "holiday parks", as they have branded them.
Poole Park lake. Facilities include two children's play areas, tennis courts, a bowling green, miniature golf and Poole Park Railway (a ridable miniature railway).A cricket field and pavilion inside the park are home to the Poole Town Cricket Club, and water sport activities such as sailing, windsurfing, kayaking, rowing and model yacht racing with Poole Radio Yacht Club take place on the lake ...
Wareham St Martin is a civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The parish spreads across a large, and mostly rural area to the north of the town of Wareham including much of Wareham Forest . However the town of Wareham lies within its own civil parish, and the only significant settlement within Wareham St. Martin parish is the village of ...
The village was known as Sanford in 1086 (in the Domesday Book), Sandford in 1243, Sandford Horscoys in 1372, and Samford Orescoys in 1427. The manor house built circa 1550 during the Tudors is Grade I listed [4] [3] and has changed little over the centuries. [3] The two renovations completed over the past 150 years have both been quite ...
Canford Cliffs is a suburb of Poole in Dorset, England.The neighbourhood lies on the English Channel coast midway between Poole and Bournemouth.To the southwest is Sandbanks which has some of the highest property values in the world; with Canford Cliffs it forms a parish which has the fourth highest property prices in the world and second highest in the United Kingdom after London.