Gibbons

Gibbons is in Wool, Purbeck District, England. Gibbons is situated nearby to the zoo Monkey World, as well as near Orang-Utans.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Monkey World and The Tank Museum.

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.

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 1 mile west of Gibbons.

Wool railway station

Railway station

Photo: Malc McDonald, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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. Wool railway station is situated 1 mile south of Gibbons.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Stoke and Turners Puddle.

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 2 miles southeast of Gibbons.

Turners Puddle

Hamlet

Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Turners Puddle is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Affpuddle and Turnerspuddle, in the Dorset district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. Turners Puddle is situated 3½ miles north of Gibbons.

Briantspuddle

Hamlet

Photo: TR001, CC BY 3.0.

Briantspuddle is a small village in the Piddle Valley in Dorset, England, near the villages of Affpuddle and Tolpuddle and about 8 miles east of the county town of Dorchester. Briantspuddle is situated 3½ miles northwest of Gibbons.

Gibbons

Type: Tourist attraction
Category: tourism
Location: Wool, Purbeck District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

50.69466° or 50° 41′ 41″ north

Longitude

-2.21781° or 2° 13′ 4″ west

Wheelchair access

yes

Open location code

9C2VMQVJ+VV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4999329503

OpenStreetMap feature

attraction=animal

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