Dorset
Purbeck District
Wool

Wool

Wool is a large village, civil parish and electoral ward in south , . In the 2011 census the parish – which includes army base to the north – had 2,015 households and a population of 5,310.
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  • Type: Village with 2,720 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Wool, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wool railway station and Parish Church of the Holy Rood.

Railway station
Photo: John Lamper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the village of Wool in , . It is on the South West Main Line, 125 miles 69 chains down the line from . South Western Railway manages the station and operates all services.

Church
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Zoo
Photo: John Lamper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Ape Rescue Centre is a 65-acre ape and monkey sanctuary, rescue centre and primatarium near Wool, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Stoke and East Lulworth.

Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the county of . It lies three miles west of the small town of and two miles east of Wool. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 410. is situated 1½ miles east of Wool.

Village
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village and civil parish nine miles east of , near , in the county of , England. The village, which consists of 17th-century thatched cottages, is dominated by the barracks of the Royal Armoured Corps Gunnery School who use a portion of the as a gunnery range. is situated 3 miles south of Wool.

Hamlet
Photo: Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in the county of . It is situated immediately to the west of the town of . forms part of the civil parish of , within the Dorset unitary authority. is situated 3½ miles east of Wool.

Wool

Latitude
50.67887° or 50° 40′ 44″ north
Longitude
-2.22054° or 2° 13′ 14″ west
Population
2,720
Elevation
59 feet (18 metres)
Open location code
9C2VMQHH+GQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 23041174
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2633609
Wiki­data ID
Q1218503
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Welsh—“Wool” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Wool (Dorset)”
  • Basque: “Wool”
  • Belarusian: “Ўул”
  • Bengali: “ঊল”
  • Cebuano: “Wool”
  • Chinese: “Wool”
  • Chinese: “伍尔”
  • Chinese: “伍爾”
  • Dutch: “Wool”
  • Finnish: “Wool”
  • French: “Wool”
  • German: “Wool”
  • Gujarati: “વૂલ”
  • Irish: “Wool”
  • Italian: “Wool (Dorset)”
  • Italian: “Wool”
  • Japanese: “ウール”
  • Kannada: “ವೂಲ್”
  • Korean: “울”
  • Ladin: “Wool”
  • Latin: “Wool”
  • Lithuanian: “Vulas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wool (Dorset)”
  • Persian: “وول، دورست”
  • Polish: “Wool”
  • Portuguese: “Wool”
  • Russian: “Вул”
  • Spanish: “Wool”
  • Swedish: “Wool”
  • Tamil: “வூல்”
  • Telugu: “వూల్”
  • Ukrainian: “Вул”
  • Urdu: “وول”
  • Welsh: “Wool, Dorset”
  • Welsh: “Wool”
  • “Wool”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wool”. Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.