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Wimborne Model Town, situated on the edge of the town of Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, is one of the largest and most established model towns in England. It depicts the town of Wimborne as it was at the time the model was originally made in the 1950s, and captures the essence of a typical market town of rural England at that time.
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 (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Shane Kevin Bartlett : 1,296 : 65.5 : Liberal Democrats: David Morgan : 1,155 : 58.4 : Conservative: Derek Bidkar Frank Burt 514 26.0 Conservative: Colin Robin William Beck 509 25.7 Labour: Stewart William Bullen 192 9.7 Labour: Ashley Wynne Rowlands 182 9.2 Majority ...
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 ...
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.
Ashington is a hamlet in Dorset, England. It is in the unitary authority of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, between the village of Corfe Mullen and the market town of Wimborne Minster. Named by the Saxons, 'Ashington' comes from the words aesc – ash, and tun – homestead or village. [1]
2019 Dorset Council election: Colehill and Wimborne Minster East (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Liberal Democrats: Janet Dover : 1,616 : 57.4 : Liberal Democrats: Maria Angela Roe : 1,073 : 38.1 : Conservative: KD Johnson 968 34.4 Conservative: David Geoffrey Lawson Packer 771 27.4 Green: Derek Baker 477 17.0 UKIP: Nick Wellstead 319 11. ...
The first rector of Wimborne St Giles, John de Fissa, was recorded in 1207 and a church is recorded on the site in 1291. This medieval parish church was rebuilt in the 1620s under patronage from Sir Anthony Ashley, 1st Baronet of Wimborne St Giles. Ashley died in 1628 and was buried in a spectacular tomb in the church, which still survives to ...