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Stoborough

Stoborough is a village in the English county of Dorset.

Stoborough
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The place

Stoborough is a village in the English county of Dorset. It is situated one mile to the south of the town of Wareham, and separated from it by the River Frome. Stoborough and nearby Stoborough Green form part of the civil parish of Arne.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Stoborough

7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Wareham Castle

    Wareham Castle and the town defences, known locally as the Walls, were fortifications in the town of Wareham in Dorset, England.

    800 m · castle in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Martin's Church, Wareham

    St Martin's Church, Wareham, sometimes St Martin's-on-the-walls, is an Anglo-Saxon church in the town of Wareham in Dorset, England. It is the most complete example of an Anglo-Saxon church in Dorset.

    1.3 km · church in Wareham, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Lady St. Mary Church, Wareham

    The parish church of Lady St. Mary, Wareham is a church of Anglo-Saxon origin in the town of Wareham, Dorset, in England.

    800 m · church in Wareham, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Blue Pool

    Blue Pool is a flooded, disused clay pit where Purbeck ball clay was once extracted. It is now a lake within the Furzebrook Estate, a 25-acre park of heath woodland and gorse near Furzebrook on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset, southern England.

    3.2 km · lake in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Wareham Town Hall, Dorset

    Wareham Town Hall is a municipal building in East Street, Wareham, Dorset, England. The town hall, which is the meeting place of Wareham Town Council, also hosts the Wareham Town Museum.

    1.1 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Creech Barrow Hill

    Creech Barrow Hill is a steep, conical hill, 188.2 metres near the coast of Dorset, England, and the highest point of the Dorset Heaths. It has been described as "one of Dorset's most distinctive landmarks." Geologically, it is also the highest Cenozoic hill in England.

    3.9 km · hill in Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Hartland Moor

    Hartland Moor is a Site of Special Scientific Interest on the south side of Poole Harbour near the town of Wareham in Dorset, England. It consists of lowland heathland.

    3 km · park in Dorset, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Stoborough

Airports
Bristol (BRS), 89 km · Cardiff (CWL), 118 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 145 km
Stations
Wareham railway station, 1.8 km · Gigger's Island, 3 km
  • Bristol → Stoborough
    93 km · quickest by road, 2h 55m · £10–14
  • London → Stoborough
    167 km · quickest by road, 3h 13m · £18–23
  • Cardiff → Stoborough
    117 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · £16–22
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Stoborough

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Stoborough. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inDaily ferry services from Poole Harbour run to Cherbourg in France as well as Jersey and Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

From Wikivoyage: Poole, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    57 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    188 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    565 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    581 km
  5. 05
    Inis Mór (Inishmore)IE

    8 ways of moving, 20 sources

    589 km

If you know how people move in Stoborough – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Stoborough

  • Warehamtown and civil parish in Dorset, England1.7 km
  • East Holmevillage and civil parish in Dorset, England, UK2.8 km
  • Sandfordvillage in Dorset, England, UK3.5 km
  • Ridgevillage in Dorset, England, UK1 km
  • Furzebrookvillage in Dorset, England, UK2.8 km
  • Stoborough Greenvillage in Dorset, England, UK800 m