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Merley
Housing estate in Poole, Dorset, England

Merley

Merley is a large housing estate in Poole, a mile (2 km) south of Wimborne Minster.

Plan a trip to Merley→From Bristol

Originally called Myrle, Merley was a manor in the tithing of Great Canford. The village merges with that of Oakley, and the housing estate was originally going to be called "Oakley Garden Village", note Oakley Shops and other signposts around the community but the name was changed. The housing estate only covers part of the area that was originally called Merley/Myrle. The Poole ward is Merley and Bearwood. The population of this ward taken at the 2011 census was 10,392.

How locals move

Getting around Merley the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Coyau (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.