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Wareham Dorset Photographs
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Title: Peaceful River
Place: Wareham
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About: Looking at the river at Wareham today it is difficult to imagine that this was the place of viking conquest. In 876, Guthrum sailed his fleet into the harbour and attacked Wareham, Vikings also raided......
Photograph Added: 9th July 2010
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Title: Boats at Wareham Quay
Place: Wareham
About: Wareham Quay is a good place to park the car even on a dull day as there is always something to see. Boats are busy coming and going and there are always swans and ducks eager to see if someone is goi......
Photograph Added: 5th May 2010
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Title: Boats for Hire
Place: Wareham
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About: Wareham Boat Hire at Abbots Quay offer small boats to enjoy time on the beautiful river Frome. For several years they have offered the Wheelyboat which is a self drive motor boat for those who are dis......
Photograph Added: 5th May 2010
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Title: View of the river
Place: Wareham
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About: The market town of Wareham is located on a peninsula of land running west to east between two rivers which flow into the upper reaches of Poole Harbour. There is the River Piddle in the north and the ......
Photograph Added: 16th April 2010
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Title: Wareham Granary
Place: Wareham
About: Wareham Quay with the Old Granary and the Church of Lady St. Mary, in the background taken from the opposite bank of the River Frome. Wareham was called Anglebury in the novels of Thomas Hardy
Photograph Added: 9th April 2010
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About Wareham Dorset.
The town plan of Wareham is an original Roman design. The streets follow a grid pattern and the roads follow the points of the compass.
In Saxon times the importance of Wareham as a port is obvious as the town had two mints. The River Frome later clogged up with silt and the increasing size of ships led to the use of Poole at the expense of Wareham.
As a result of attacks by the Danes, Wareham like several other Wessex towns, was defended by high walls in about the 10th century. These walls were greatly reduced in height by Cromwell's troops and today the walls are little more than low grassy mounds.
A devastating fire in 1762 destroyed nearly all the timber buildings and as a result Wareham now has many splendid Georgian Stone houses.
The parish church Lady St. Mary has a fine 15th century tower with a weather vane in the shape of a salmon. In AD879 King Edward was interred at St. Mary's after meeting his death at Corfe Castle. His murder was contrived by his stepmother Queen Elfrida who also had the King buried just outside the churchyard in unhallowed ground.
The Quay by the river is a very pleasant place to sit on a fine day and a walk by the river is a very enjoyable experience. Day tripper boats operate between Wareham, Poole, Bournebouth and Brownsea Island
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