Wareham
| Wareham | |||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 41 ′ N , 2 ° 6 ′ W | ||
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| Residents | 8417 | ||
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| Post town | Wareham (Dorset) | ||
| ZIP code section | BH20 | ||
| prefix | 01929 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | South West England | ||
| Ceremonial county | Dorset | ||
| Unitary authority | Dorset | ||
| Website: http://www.wareham-tc.gov.uk/ | |||
Wareham is a historic market town and, under the name Wareham Town , a local parish in the English county of Dorset . It is located on the Frome River about eight miles southwest of Poole .
Geographical location
The city is located on a strategic hill between the Frome and Piddle Rivers at the end of the Wareham Channel , part of Poole Harbor .
The city is on the A351 from Poole to Swanage and the eastern end of the A352 to Dorchester and Sherborne . Both streets are now bypassed around the city center. The city has its own station on the South Western Main Line and was formerly a transfer station for the line to Swanage, which is now operated by the museum steam train of the Swanage Railway .
There is a large conifer plantation to the northwest of the city, and Wareham Forest stretches for several miles to the A35 and at the foot of the Dorset Downs . To the southeast are Corfe Castle (village) with Corfe Castle and the heathland that borders Poole Harbor, the Wytch Farm oil fields and the Studland Nature Reserve and Godlingstone Heath . About seven kilometers south are the chalk cliffs of the Purbeck Hills , they extend from Dorchester to Old Harry Rocks , near Swanage. About 12 kilometers south of Wareham is the English Channel , at Worbarrow Bay and Kimmeridge .
history
Throughout its long history, Wareham has repeatedly given importance to its strategic position. The city's older streets follow a Roman plan scheme , although the current city was founded by the Saxons . The oldest parts of the city are the city walls, old earth fortifications that surround the entire city and were built by Alfred the Great in the 9th century to fortify against the Normans .
The city was a Saxon royal burial place, especially for King Beorhtric († 802) and Edward the Martyr († 978), who was later transferred to Shaftesbury Abbey in northern Dorset. The River Frome serves as a small port, so the town used to serve as a landing site for smaller boats before the river was silted up.
After the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685, Wareham was one of the towns in Dorset where the Chief Justice Jeffreys in the Bloody Assizes had numerous citizens hanged as traitors on the city walls. On the northwest wall is an area called the "blood bank" where a large stone was used for beheadings.
In 1762 two thirds of the city was destroyed by fire, which was then rebuilt in Georgian architecture with red bricks and Purbeck marble in the scheme of the Roman plan scheme. The city is divided into four quarters, which are divided by the main streets at right angles to each other. The medieval communal houses had survived the fire, some of the Georgian facades were placed in front of older houses that also survived the fire.
Due to the limitation of the rivers and the marshland, Wareham could hardly expand further in the 20th century, while nearby cities like Poole grew rapidly.
In the Anglo-Saxon Church of St. Martin-on-the-Walls there is a reclining Gisant by TE Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in Arabic clothing, which was designed by Eric Kennington . Lawrence is buried in Moreton Cemetery. Not far from town are the Clouds Hill and Bovington Army Camps, where Lawrence died after a motorcycle accident.
The Wareham Town Museum on East Street has an extensive collection on Lawrence, and in 2006 a DVD was made about Lawrence's life in Dorset and his fatal accident. The museum also covers all of Wareham's history.
Wareham has been a market town since the 15th century, and there is still a market here on Thursdays and Saturdays.
administration
The local parish of Wareham Town includes the walled town of Wareham between the Frome and Piddle Rivers and the area of Northport north of the Piddle River and relatively little of the surrounding farmland. The parish covers an area of 6.52 square kilometers and in 2001 had a population of 5665 inhabitants in 2642 residential buildings.
The sister parish Wareham St. Martin includes most of the rural areas as well as the village of Sandford . In total, both parishes of Wareham extend over 36.18 square kilometers and in 2001 had 8417 inhabitants in 3788 residential buildings.
Both parishes are part of the Purbeck administrative district of Dorset. You are in the House of Commons constituency of Mid Dorset and North Poole and the constituency for the European Parliament of South West England .
Town twinning
Warham is a twin town of the German town of Hemsbach in Baden-Württemberg (since 1986) and the French town of Conches-en-Ouche in Normandy (since 1987).
Individual evidence
- ^ Wareham Town - Dorset For You . Dorset For You Partnership. Retrieved August 12, 2007.
- ↑ a b OS Explorer Map OL15 - Purbeck & South Dorset . Ordnance Survey , 2006, ISBN 978-0-319-23865-3 .
- ^ Parish Statistics . Purbeck District Council. January 11, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved on August 12, 2007.
- ^ Website Hemsbach - Sister Cities
- ↑ completefrance.com
literature
- Michael Pitt-Rivers: Dorset. A shell guide. Faber & Faber, London 1966, ISBN 7040011301 .
Web links
- Census data ( Memento from February 21, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- Wareham Town Museum
- Wareham Air Training Corps website