Wimborne Minster
Wimborne Minster, also called just Wimborne, is a town of 16,000 people at the confluence of the River Stour and the River Allen, on the Dorset Heaths in Dorset, England.Photo: Bellminsterboy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Bellminsterboy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 15,600 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in Dorset, England
- Also known as: “Wimborne” and “Wimborne Minster, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wimborne Minster and Tivoli Theatre.
Wimborne Minster
Church
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wimborne Minster is the parish church of Wimborne, Dorset, England. The minster has existed for over 1300 years and is recognised for its unusual chained library.
Tivoli Theatre
Theater building
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Tivoli Theatre in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, was built in 1936 as a theatre and cinema. It has a variety of Art Deco features, including original chrome and Bakelite door handles.
Museum of East Dorset
Museum
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Museum of East Dorset is a local museum in the town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England. It is located on the high street, opposite the Church of Wimborne Minster.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Merley and Ashington.
Merley
Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Merley is a large housing estate in Poole, a mile south of Wimborne Minster. Originally called Myrle, Merley was a manor in the tithing of Great Canford.
Ashington
Hamlet
Photo: Mike Pimley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ashington is a hamlet in Dorset, England. It is in the unitary authority of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, between the village of Corfe Mullen and the market town of Wimborne Minster.
Wimborne Minster
- Categories: civil parish, market town, and locality
- Location: East Dorset District, Dorset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.7995° or 50° 47′ 58″ northLongitude
-1.9873° or 1° 59′ 14″ westPopulation
15,600Elevation
154 feet (47 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB WIMOpen location code
9C2WQ2X7+R3OpenStreetMap ID
node 19809382OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Wimborne Minster” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ویمبورن مينستر”
- Asturian: “Wimborne Minster”
- Basque: “Wimborne Minster”
- Bengali: “উইমবর্ন মিন্সটার”
- Bulgarian: “Уимборн Минстър”
- Cebuano: “Wimborne Minster”
- Chinese: “Wimborne Minster”
- Chinese: “温伯恩明斯特”
- Chinese: “溫伯恩明斯特”
- Czech: “Wimborne Minster”
- Dutch: “Wimborne Minster”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ویمبورن مينستر”
- Esperanto: “Wimborne Minster”
- French: “Wimborne Minster”
- German: “Kloster Wimborne Minster”
- German: “Wimborne Minster”
- Greek: “Γουίμπορν Μίνστερ”
- Gujarati: “વિમ્બોર્ન મિન્સ્ટર”
- Hebrew: “וימבורן מינסטר”
- Irish: “Wimborne Minster”
- Italian: “Wimborne Minster”
- Japanese: “ウイムボーン”
- Japanese: “ウィンボーン・ミンスター”
- Kannada: “ವಿಂಬೋರ್ನ್ ಮಿನ್ಸ್ಟರ್”
- Korean: “윔번 민스터”
- Latin: “Winburna”
- Lithuanian: “Vimborn Minsteris”
- Macedonian: “Вимборн Минстер”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wimborne Minster”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wimborne Minster”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wimborne Minster”
- Persian: “ویمبورن مینستر”
- Polish: “Wimborne Minster”
- Portuguese: “Wimborne Minster”
- Romanian: “Wimborne Minster”
- Russian: “Уимборн”
- Slovenian: “Wimborne Minster”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویمبورن مینستر”
- Spanish: “Wimborne Minster”
- Swedish: “Wimborne Minster”
- Tamil: “விம்போர்ன் மிஸ்டர்”
- Telugu: “విమ్ బోర్న్ మినిస్టర్”
- Ukrainian: “Вімборн Міністер”
- Urdu: “ویمبورنی مینستیر”
- Welsh: “Wimborne Minster”
- Western Frisian: “Wimborne Minster”
- “Wimborne Minster”
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