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It was acquired by Wimborne Urban District Council in the late 1930s and converted into a civic centre. [6] It remained the headquarters of the council for another three decades, [7] but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged East Dorset Council was formed at Furzehill, 1.6 miles (2.6 km) north of Wimborne Minster, in 1974.
Wimborne Minster; ward Dorset Council. Population: 7,385: ... Wimborne Minster (2 seats) ... This page was last edited on 17 October 2024, ...
They are named after Cornelia Guest, Lady Wimborne who, as wife of Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, oversaw the construction of the majority of the estate cottages. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Located within Dorset they span the breadth of the original Canford estate, clustered mostly in Canford Magna and Ashington , yet can also be further afield in ...
The Dorset broadcaster Ralph Wightman wrote of the hill and its view: "Here there is a hill which is only three hundred feet high but which manages to give a wonderful view over woodland, heath, fertile chalk and the distant Isle of Wight. This feeling of immense space seen from relatively small hills is a blessed peculiarity of Dorset." [2]
Merley is a large housing estate in Poole, a mile (2 km) south of Wimborne Minster. Originally called Myrle, Merley was a manor in the tithing of Great Canford (or Canford Magna ). The village merges with that of Oakley , and the housing estate was originally going to be called "Oakley Garden Village", note Oakley Shops and other signposts ...
Between 1867 and 1903, 9 pairs of semi-detached estate cottages, or 'Lady Wimborne Cottages,' were constructed. [5] Believed to be the work of the architect Charles Barry Jr. the cottages designs were commissioned by the Guests as suitable estate cottages to improve the housing quality and living standards of labourers through establishing a homogeneous design. [5]
Wimborne Minster (often referred to as Wimborne, / ˈ w ɪ m b ɔːr n /) is a market town in Dorset in South West England, and the name of the Church of England church in that town. It lies at the confluence of the River Stour and the River Allen , 5 miles (8 km) north of Poole , on the Dorset Heaths , and is part of the South East Dorset ...
A historical map of Woodlands, Dorset in 1945 Graph showing the occupational structure in Woodlands in 1881. Woodlands is a village and civil parish in the East Dorset district of Dorset, South-West England. It is five miles (8 km) north of Wimborne Minster. The village is home to the Church of the Ascension which is a Grade II listed building.