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Wareham Common

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Wareham Common is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Dorset, covering 0.17 km². It is one of 124 SSSIs in the county. Wareham Station is under a kilometre away. Other SSSIs nearby include Wareham Meadows and Morden Bog and Hyde Heath.

More places to visit near Wareham Common

Photo of the Dorset National Landscape, a National Landscape in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Dorset National Landscape

National Landscape near Dorchester

Chalk ridges, quiet combes and one of the finest coastlines in England, from Lyme Bay to Purbeck

0.6 km S

Photo along the Hardy Way, a 217-mile long-distance path running from Higher Bockhampton to Stinsford, south west England.Highlight

Hardy Way

Long-distance path

Around Thomas Hardy's Wessex from his birthplace cottage to the churchyard at Stinsford, via Corfe Castle and Lulworth Cove.

0.9 km E · Dorset & Wiltshire

Photo of Wareham, a village in Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Wareham

Village

A Saxon walled town between the Frome and Piddle rivers, its grid of Georgian streets running down to a riverside quay near Poole Harbour.

0.9 km NE · Dorset

Photo of the Purbeck Heritage Coast, Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Purbeck

Heritage Coast near Wareham

Dorset's "Isle" of Purbeck, a peninsula of chalk and limestone on the Jurassic Coast, with sea stacks, quarried stone and a ruined castle

1.3 km SE

Photo of Corfe Castle, a ruined castle near Kingston, Dorset, south west England.Iconic

Corfe Castle

Castle near Kingston

A Civil-War-slighted skyline ruin above its Purbeck village.

7.2 km SE

Photo of Tyneham, a landmark near Kingston, Dorset, south west England.Highlight

Tyneham

Landmark near Kingston

A deserted Purbeck village requisitioned in 1943 and never returned, its roofless cottages, school and church preserved on the army ranges.

8 km SW