Poole Bay
Poole Bay is a bay in the English Channel, on the coast of Dorset in southern England, which stretches 16 km from Sandbanks at the mouth of Poole Harbour in the west, to Hengistbury Head in the east.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Christophe.Finot, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: Bay
- Description: bay in Poole, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Bournemouth Bay”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Old Harry Rocks and Studland Beach.
Old Harry Rocks
Photo: John Tomlinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Old Harry Rocks are three chalk formations, including a stack and a stump, located at Handfast Point, on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, southern England. They mark the most eastern point of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Fort Henry
Photo: Stevekraken, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Henry is a Grade II listed World War Two observation bunker overlooking Studland Bay, in Dorset. It was built in 1943 to defend the bay from possible German invasion along with other beach defences such as gun emplacements, Type 25 pill boxes and concrete Dragon’s Teeth anti-tank obstacles.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sandbanks and Canford Cliffs.
Sandbanks
Suburb
Sandbanks is an affluent neighbourhood of Poole, Dorset, on the south coast of England, situated on a narrow spit of around 1 km2 or 0.39 sq mi extending into the mouth of Poole Harbour.
Canford Cliffs
Suburb
Photo: Michael9559, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Canford Cliffs is a suburb of Poole in Dorset, England. The neighbourhood lies on the English Channel coast midway between Poole and Bournemouth. To the southwest is Sandbanks which has some of the highest property values in the world; with Canford Cliffs it forms a parish which has the fourth highest property prices in the world and second highest in the United Kingdom after London.
Lilliput
Suburb
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lilliput is an area of Poole in Dorset, England. It borders Sandbanks, Canford Cliffs, Lower Parkstone, and Whitecliff and has a shoreline within Poole Harbour with views of Brownsea Island and the Purbeck Hills.
Poole Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.66583° or 50° 39′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.91246° or 1° 54′ 45″ westOpen location code
9C2WM38Q+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 29687628OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bayGeoNames ID
2640100Wikidata ID
Q6980908
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Poole Bay” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Poole Bay”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Poole Bay”
- Portuguese: “Baía de Poole”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Poole”
- Spanish: “Bahia de Bournemouth”
- Spanish: “Bahía de Bournemouth”
- Spanish: “Bahia de Poole”
- Spanish: “Bahía de Poole”
- Spanish: “Bournemouth Bay”
- Spanish: “Poole Bay”
- Swedish: “Poole Bay”
- Welsh: “Bae Poole”
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Localities in the Area
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Highlights include Studland Bay Marine Conservation Zone and Studland Bay.
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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 “Poole Bay”. Photo: Christophe.Finot, CC BY-SA 2.5.