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Wimborne Minster; ward Dorset Council. Population: 7,385: Major settlements: Wimborne Minster: Current ward; Created: 2019 Councillor: Shane Bartlett (Liberal Democrats) Councillor: David Martin (Liberal Democrats) Number of councillors: 2: UK Parliament constituency: Mid Dorset and North Poole
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.
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 It depicts the town of Wimborne as it was at the time the model was originally made in the 1950s, and captures the essence of a typical market town of rural England at that time.
East Dorset was a local government district in Dorset, England.Its council met in Wimborne Minster between 2016 and 2019. [1] [2]The district (as Wimborne) was formed on 1 April 1974 by merging Wimborne Minster Urban District with Wimborne and Cranborne Rural District, plus the parish of St Leonards and St Ives transferred from the Ringwood and Fordingbridge Rural District in Hampshire. [3]
This is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of Dorset in South West England.All changes since the re-organisation of local government following the passing of the Local Government Act 1972 are shown.