Wool railway station
Wool railway station serves the village of Wool in Dorset, England. It is on the South West Main Line, 125 miles 69 chains down the line from London Waterloo. South Western Railway manages the station and operates all services.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Lamper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Wool, Dorset, England, UK
- Also known as: “WOO”, “Wool Railway Station”, and “Wool Station”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Parish Church of the Holy Rood and The Tank Museum.
Parish Church of the Holy Rood
Church
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parish Church of the Holy Rood is situated 1,800 feet southeast of Wool railway station.
The Tank Museum
Museum
Photo: Hohum, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tank Museum is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about 1 mile north of the village of Wool and 12 miles west of the major port of Poole. The Tank Museum is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Wool railway station.
Monkey World
Zoo
Photo: John Lamper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre is a 65-acre ape and monkey sanctuary, rescue centre and primatarium near Wool, Dorset, England. Monkey World is situated 1 mile north of Wool railway station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Stoke and East Lulworth.
East Stoke
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Stoke is a village in the English county of Dorset. It lies three miles west of the small town of Wareham and two miles east of Wool. In 2013 the estimated population of the civil parish was 410. East Stoke is situated 1½ miles east of Wool railway station.
East Lulworth
Village
Photo: Nigel Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
East Lulworth is a village and civil parish nine miles east of Dorchester, near Lulworth Cove, in the county of Dorset, 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 Purbeck Hills as a gunnery range. East Lulworth is situated 3 miles south of Wool railway station.
Worgret
Hamlet
Photo: Chris Gunns, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Worgret is a hamlet in the English county of Dorset. It is situated immediately to the west of the town of Wareham. Worgret forms part of the civil parish of Arne, within the Dorset unitary authority. Worgret is situated 4 miles east of Wool railway station.
Wool railway station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Wool, Purbeck District, Dorset, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.68166° or 50° 40′ 54″ northLongitude
-2.22131° or 2° 13′ 17″ westElevation
49 feet (15 metres)Operator
South Western RailwayNetwork
National RailAbbreviation
“WOO”Open location code
9C2VMQJH+MFOpenStreetMap ID
node 23041138OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Wool railway station” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “station Wool”
- Dutch: “Station Wool”
- Egyptian Arabic: “محطة ول”
- French: “gare de Wool”
- French: “Wool”
- Welsh: “Gorsaf reilffordd 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 railway station”. Photo: John Lamper, CC BY-SA 2.0.