Folly Lane
Folly Lane is an electrical substation in Wool, Purbeck District, England. Folly Lane is situated nearby to St Joseph’s Catholic Church, as well as near the community center The D’Urberville Centre.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Wool railway station and The Tank Museum.
Wool railway station
Railway station
Photo: John Lamper, 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 1,400 feet northeast of Folly Lane.
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 Folly Lane.
Parish Church of the Holy Rood
Church
Photo: Trish Steel, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parish Church of the Holy Rood is situated 2,200 feet east of Folly Lane.
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 2 miles east of Folly Lane.
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 Folly Lane.
Chaldon Herring
Village
Photo: Eugene Birchall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Chaldon Herring or East Chaldon is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset, about 8 miles south-east of the county town of Dorchester. Chaldon Herring is situated 3½ miles southwest of Folly Lane.
Folly Lane
- Type: Electrical substation
- Category: industry
- Location: Wool, Purbeck District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.67958° or 50° 40′ 47″ northLongitude
-2.22619° or 2° 13′ 34″ westOperator
SSE Power DistributionOpen location code
9C2VMQHF+RGOpenStreetMap ID
way 339625821
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