Wool

Worth seeing in and around Wool

4 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
   The Tank Museum

   The Tank Museum is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about 1 mile north of the village of Wool and 12 miles west of the major port of Poole.

   2.5 km · military museum in Bovington, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Bindon Abbey

   Bindon Abbey was a Cistercian monastery, of which only ruins remain, on the River Frome about half a mile east of Wool in Dorset, England.

   800 m · monastery in Wool, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Former Church of the Holy Rood (Now Redundant)

   Holy Rood Church is a former Church of England church in Coombe Keynes, Dorset, England. Most of the church dates to a rebuild of 1860–61, but the tower and chancel arch is 13th-century.

   2.6 km · church building in Coombe Keynes, Purbeck, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Woolbridge Manor House

   Woolbridge Manor is a 17th-century manor house just outside the village of Wool, in Dorset, England. English Heritage have designated it a Grade II* listed building.

   600 m · manor house in East Stoke, Dorset, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wool

Airports

Bristol (BRS), 86 km · Cardiff (CWL), 112 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 151 km

Stations

Wool railway station, 300 m

• Bristol → Wool

  90 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £10–14
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• Cardiff → Wool

  111 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · £16–22
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• London → Wool

  173 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £18–24
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No local-transport research exists yet for Wool

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 Wool. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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