Wareham, Dorset
Wareham is a historic market town and, under the name Wareham Town, a local parish in the English county of Dorset. It lies on the River Frome about 13 kilometers southwest of Poole.
Geographical location
The city is located on a strategic hill between the rivers Frome and Piddle at the end of the Wareham Channel, a part of the natural port of Poole Harbour.
The city is situated on the A351 trunk road from Poole to Swanage and the eastern end of the A352 to Dorchester and Sherborne. Both roads today are led around by circumvention around the city center. The town has its own railway station on the South Western Main Line and was formerly interchange station for the route to Swanage, which is now operated by the Museum Steam Railway Swanage Railway.
In the north- west of the city, there is a greater conifer planting, the Wareham Forest extends over several miles to the A35 trunk road and the foot of the Dorset Downs. To the southeast lies Corfe with the castle Corfe Castle and the heathland that borders on the Poole Harbour, the oil fields of the Wytch Farm and Nature Reserve Studland Heath and Godlingstone. About seven kilometers to the south are the chalk cliffs of the Purbeck Hills, they extend from Dorchester to Old Harry Rocks, Swanage at. About 12 kilometers south of Wareham is the English Channel, at Worbarrow Bay and Kimmeridge.
History
The strategic position conferred by its long history and over again meaning Wareham. The older streets of the city follow a Roman plan scheme, although the present city was founded by the Saxons. The oldest parts of the city are the city walls, old earthworks that surround the city and built the Great for mounting against the Normans in the 9th century by Alfred.
The town was a Saxon royal burial place, especially for King Beorhtric († 802 ) and Edward the Martyr († 978), who was later transferred to the Shaftesbury Abbey in the north Dorset. The River Frome serves as a small port, so that the city was once used as a landing place for small boats off the silting of the river.
After the Monmouth Rebellion in 1685 Wareham was one of the towns in Dorset, in which the Chief Justice Jeffreys at the Bloody Assizes many citizens hanged as a traitor to the city walls. There is an area that is referred to as " blood bank " and where a large stone was used for beheadings on the northwest wall.
In 1762, two-thirds of the city were destroyed by a fire, which was then rebuilt in Georgian architecture with red brick and Purbeck marble in the schema of the Roman plan scheme. The city is divided into four quarters, which are shared by the mutually perpendicular main roads. The medieval community houses had survived the fire, some of the Georgian facades were placed in front of older homes that are equally survived the fire.
Due to the limitation by the rivers and the marshes to Wareham could barely keep expanding, while nearby towns such as Poole anwuchsen strongly in the 20th century.
In the Anglo-Saxon church of St Martin -on-the - Walls is a lying Gisant of TE Lawrence ( Lawrence of Arabia) in Arab dress, which was designed by Eric Kennington. Lawrence is buried in the cemetery of Moreton. Near the town are the Army camps Clouds Hill and Bovington, where Lawrence came after a motorcycle accident to life.
In Wareham Town Museum in East Street you will find an extensive collection on Lawrence, 2006 Lawrence DVD to life in Dorset and his fatal accident was created. The museum covers the entire history Warehams.
Since the 15th century Wareham is a market town, today is here on Thursdays and Saturdays a market place.
Management
The local church of Wareham Town comprises the area surrounded by the city walls Wareham city between the rivers Frome and Piddle, and the territory of Northport north of the River Piddle, and relatively little of the surrounding agricultural land. The municipality covers an area of 6.52 square kilometers and in 2001 had a population of 5665 inhabitants in 2642 residential buildings.
The sister congregation Wareham St. Martin covers the majority of the rural areas and the village of Sandford. Overall, both towns of Wareham spread over 36.18 square kilometers and had 2001 inhabitants in 8417 3788 residential buildings.
Both communities are part of the administrative district of Purbeck Dorset. You are in the House of Commons constituency of Mid Dorset and North Poole, as well as in the constituency for the European Parliament South West England.