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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 , England.
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  • Type: Town with 14,900 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in Dorset, England
  • Also known as: “Wimborne” and “Wimborne Minster, Dorset”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tivoli Theatre and Museum of East Dorset.

Theater building
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The in Wimborne Minster, , 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
Photo: Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The is a local museum in the town of Wimborne Minster in , England. It is located on the high street, opposite the Church of Wimborne Minster.

Church
Photo: Stuart Buchan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Merley and Ashington.

Village
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a large housing estate in , a mile south of Wimborne Minster. Originally called Myrle, was a manor in the tithing of Great Canford.

Hamlet
Photo: Mike Pimley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a hamlet in , . It is in the unitary authority of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, between the village of and the market town of Wimborne Minster.

Wimborne Minster

Latitude
50.7995° or 50° 47′ 58″ north
Longitude
-1.9873° or 1° 59′ 14″ west
Population
14,900
Elevation
154 feet (47 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WIM
Open location code
9C2WQ2X7+R3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 19809382
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2633863
Wiki­data ID
Q535233
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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”

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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 “Wimborne Minster”. Photo: Bellminsterboy, CC BY-SA 4.0.