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Wareham

Wareham is a romantic and unforgettable old town in , UK. It lives within its earthen walls, with ramparts north, east and west and a river to the south.
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  • Type: Town with 7,590 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Dorset, England
  • Also known as: “Wareham Town” and “Wareham, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wareham railway station and Wareham Town Museum.

Railway station
Photo: John Lamper, CC BY-SA 2.0.
serves the historic market town of Wareham, in , England. It is situated about 0.6 miles north of the town centre and 120 miles 70 chains down the line from on the South West Main Line.

Museum
tells the story of the Wareham area of in southern England from prehistoric times to the present day, with a special exhibition on Lawrence of Arabia, who lived nearby.

Church
Photo: Wulfrunian1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St Martin's Church, Wareham, sometimes St Martin's-on-the-walls, is an Anglo-Saxon church in the town of Wareham in , England. It is the most complete example of an Anglo-Saxon church in Dorset. It is a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sandford and Ridge.

Village
Photo: David Squire, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a village in the county of , on the A351 road some two miles from Wareham and seven miles from . forms the only significant settlement within the civil parish of Wareham St.

Village
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is a in the county of . It is situated on the south bank of the River Frome, about half a mile due south east of the town of Wareham.

Village
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is a village in the county of . It is situated one mile to the south of the town of Wareham, and separated from it by the River Frome.

Wareham

Latitude
50.6869° or 50° 41′ 13″ north
Longitude
-2.1098° or 2° 6′ 35″ west
Population
7,590
Elevation
36 feet (11 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WRH
Open location code
9C2VMVPR+Q3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 23041176
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2634776
Wiki­data ID
Q387419
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Welsh—“Wareham” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ուորհեմ”
  • Asturian: “Wareham”
  • Basque: “Wareham (Dorset)”
  • Basque: “Wareham”
  • Bengali: “ওয়ারেহাম টাউন”
  • Breton: “Wareham”
  • Bulgarian: “Уеърхам”
  • Cebuano: “Wareham”
  • Chinese: “Wareham”
  • Chinese: “瓦尔汉姆镇”
  • Chinese: “瓦爾漢姆鎮”
  • Chinese: “韋勒姆”
  • Dutch: “Wareham Town”
  • Dutch: “Wareham”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ويرهام”
  • Esperanto: “Wareham”
  • Finnish: “Wareham”
  • French: “Wareham Town”
  • French: “Wareham”
  • German: “Wareham Town”
  • German: “Wareham”
  • Gujarati: “વેરહામ ટાઉન”
  • Hebrew: “וירהאם”
  • Indonesian: “Wareham, Dorset”
  • Irish: “Wareham Town”
  • Italian: “Wareham”
  • Japanese: “ウェアハム・タウン”
  • Japanese: “ウェアハム”
  • Japanese: “ウェアラム”
  • Kannada: “ವೇರ್ಹಮ್ ಟೌನ್”
  • Korean: “와레햄 타운”
  • Ladin: “Wareham”
  • Latin: “Wareham”
  • Lithuanian: “Verhemas”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wareham Town”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Wareham”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wareham”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wareham”
  • Norwegian: “Wareham”
  • Persian: “وارهام، دورست”
  • Polish: “Wareham Town”
  • Polish: “Wareham”
  • Portuguese: “Wareham Town”
  • Romanian: “Wareham”
  • Russian: “Уорхэм”
  • Russian: “Уэрхам-Таун”
  • Slovenian: “Wareham Town”
  • Slovenian: “Wareham”
  • South Azerbaijani: “وارهام، دورست”
  • Spanish: “Wareham Town”
  • Spanish: “Wareham”
  • Swedish: “Wareham Town”
  • Swedish: “Wareham”
  • Tamil: “வாராஹம் டவுன்”
  • Telugu: “వేర్హమ్ టౌన్”
  • Turkish: “Wareham Town”
  • Ukrainian: “Веагам”
  • Urdu: “واریہام”
  • Urdu: “ویئرہیم، ڈورسٹ”
  • Welsh: “Wareham, Dorset”

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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 “Wareham”. Photo: muffinn, CC BY 2.0.