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Poole

Poole is a coastal town and seaport in , on the south coast of . Poole is a tourist resort, attracting visitors with its large natural harbour, history, the Lighthouse arts centre and Blue Flag beaches.
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  • Type: Town with 155,000 residents
  • Description: town and seaport in the county of Dorset, England
  • Also known as: “Poole, Dorset” and “Poole, England”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Poole Hospital and Poole Museum.

Hospital
Photo: Lorraine and Keith Bowdler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an acute hospital in Poole, Dorset, England. Built in 1907, it has expanded from a basic 14-bed facility into a 789-bed hospital.

Museum
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is a currently closed local history museum situated on the Lower High Street in the Old Town area of Poole, , and is part of the Borough of Service.

Government office
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is a municipal building in Market Street, Poole, , England. The guildhall, which is used as a register office and a venue for weddings and civil partnership ceremonies, is a Grade II* listed building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Parkstone and Hamworthy.

Suburb
Photo: Mike Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an area of Poole, in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, in the ceremonial county of , England. It is divided into 'Lower' and 'Upper' .

Suburb
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is a suburb of Poole, in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, in the ceremonial county of , England. It is sited on a peninsula of approximately 3 square kilometres that is bordered by the town of to the north, to the south, to the west and to the east.

Suburb
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is a suburb, an area of heathland, and an electoral ward in Poole, . It is known for being the largest heathland in Dorset, and the largest lowland heath in the UK. is situated 2½ miles north of Poole.

Poole

Latitude
50.7179° or 50° 43′ 5″ north
Longitude
-1.9815° or 1° 58′ 54″ west
Population
155,000
Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)
IATA airport code
POQ
Open location code
9C2WP299+59
Open­Street­Map ID
node 17858754
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2640101
Wiki­data ID
Q203349
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Poole” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Poole”
  • Arabic: “بول”
  • Aragonese: “Poole”
  • Armenian: “Պուլ”
  • Asturian: “Poole”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pul”
  • Azerbaijani: “Puul”
  • Basque: “Poole”
  • Belarusian: “Пул (Англія)”
  • Belarusian: “Пул”
  • Bengali: “পুল”
  • Bengali: “পুলে”
  • Breton: “Poole”
  • Bulgarian: “Пул”
  • Catalan: “Poole”
  • Cebuano: “Poole (kapital sa kondado)”
  • Cebuano: “Poole”
  • Chinese: “Poole”
  • Chinese: “普勒”
  • Chinese: “普尔”
  • Chinese: “普爾”
  • Czech: “Poole”
  • Danish: “Poole”
  • Dutch: “Poole”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بول”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “پول”
  • Esperanto: “Poole”
  • Estonian: “Poole”
  • Finnish: “Poole”
  • French: “Poole”
  • Georgian: “პული”
  • German: “Poole”
  • Gujarati: “પૂલ”
  • Hebrew: “פול”
  • Hungarian: “Poole”
  • Interlingue: “Poole”
  • Irish: “Poole”
  • Italian: “Poole”
  • Japanese: “プール”
  • Kannada: “ಪೂಲೆ”
  • Korean: “풀”
  • Ladin: “Poole”
  • Latin: “Poole”
  • Latvian: “Pūla (Anglija)”
  • Latvian: “Pūla”
  • Lithuanian: “Poole”
  • Lithuanian: “Pulas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Poole”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Poole”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Poole”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Poole”
  • Norwegian: “Poole”
  • Persian: “پول، انگلستان”
  • Polish: “Poole”
  • Portuguese: “Poole”
  • Quechua: “Poole”
  • Romanian: “Poole”
  • Russian: “Пул”
  • Scots: “Poole”
  • Serbian: “Poole”
  • Serbian: “Pul”
  • Serbian: “Пул”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Poole”
  • Silesian: “Poole”
  • Slovak: “Poole”
  • Slovenian: “Poole”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پول، اینگیلیس”
  • Spanish: “Poole (Dorset)”
  • Spanish: “Poole”
  • Swahili: “Poole”
  • Swedish: “Poole”
  • Tamil: “பூலி”
  • Tamil: “பூலே”
  • Tatar: “Пул (шәһәр)”
  • Tatar: “Пул”
  • Telugu: “పూలే”
  • Telugu: “పూల్”
  • Ukrainian: “Пул”
  • Urdu: “پول، انگلستان”
  • Vietnamese: “Poole”
  • Volapük: “Poole”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Poole”
  • Welsh: “Poole”
  • Wu Chinese: “普尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “普爾”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Poole”. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.