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Poole Harbour is the location of a number of islands, of various sizes. These islands include: Brownsea Island is near the sea entrance at Sandbanks. Furzey Island is south of Brownsea Island. Green Island is directly south of Furzey island. Long Island is near the Arne Peninsula. Round Island; Gigger's Island is in the west of the Harbour near ...
Sandbanks is an affluent neighbourhood of Poole, Dorset, on the south coast of England, situated on a narrow spit of around 1 km 2 or 0.39 sq mi extending into the mouth of Poole Harbour. It is known for its high property prices and for its award-winning beach. [ 1 ]
Brownsea Island lies in Poole Harbour opposite the town of Poole in Dorset, England. It is the largest of eight islands in the harbour. The island can be reached by one of the public ferries or by private boat. There is a wharf and a small dock near the main castle.
The river forms a wide, shallow ria at its estuary, Poole Harbour. Prior to the end of the last ice age , the Purbeck Hills were continuous with the Isle of Wight , and the Frome would have continued eastwards through what is now Poole Harbour and Poole Bay along the Solent , collecting the Stour – Avon , Beaulieu , and Test – Itchen ...
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 ...
The area occupying the northern shore of Poole Harbour was often referred to by the Victorians as "Parkstone-on-Sea". [3]Mary Butts wrote about the local landscape and her childhood in one of the old mansions at the turn of the twentieth century in her autobiography The Crystal Cabinet: my childhood at Salterns (1937). [4]
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Hartland Moor was declared a national nature reserve in 1954, under the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. [1] That designation applies to 243 hectares (600 acres) of the site; [2] it is part of a larger area that was notified as an SSSI in 1986. [1]