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.

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.

Studland Beach

Beach

Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort Henry

Photo: Stevekraken, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Fort Henry is a World War Two observation bunker overlooking Studland Bay, in Dorset. It was constructed during September-October 1943 by 12 Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers for Exercise Pirate, the first large scale, live fire, rehearsal for the Normandy Landings.

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″ north

Longitude

-1.91246° or 1° 54′ 45″ west

Open location code

9C2WM38Q+82

OpenStreetMap ID

node 29687628

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

2640100

Wikidata ID

Q6980908

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Satellite Map

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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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Notable Places Nearby

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