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Stapehill, Old Thatch
Pub on Wimborne Road West. Thatch, single-storey with central dormer; central bar with open plan drinking & eating areas. Cask ales on offer at my visit: Fuller London Pride, Ringwood Forty Niner.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 19 Dec 2008
0.04 miles
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Stapehill: postbox № BH21 205, Uddens Trading Estate
This modern postbox serves the modestly sized Uddens Trading Estate, which shares its name with Uddens Drive onto which it comes out, and Uddens Water, a stream to the north of here.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 12 Jun 2009
0.05 miles
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Stapehill, trading estate
Uddens Trading Estate, off Uddens Drive, with an diverse mix of electricity depot, garden, spice, dental, catering, shopfitting & paint stores, with a cafe.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 28 Nov 2009
0.08 miles
4
Stapehill, stile
Stile off Uddens Drive at the beginning of a bridleway to Colehill, partially following the course of the old Wimborne to Ringwood railway line.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 28 Nov 2009
0.10 miles
5
From Railway to Trailway
This trailway was once part of the double-track mainline running from London Waterloo to Weymouth. Bicycles are now the only wheeled vehicles you'll see along here nowadays.
Image: © Peter Kazmierczak
Taken: 13 May 2015
0.13 miles
6
Stapehill Abbey near Wimborne
19th century building originally inhabited by Cistercian nuns, now a popular garden and crafts centre.
Image: © John Smitten
Taken: 15 Jul 2005
0.13 miles
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Stapehill, mast
Telecom mast at the north-eastern corner of Uddens Trading Estate.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 28 Nov 2009
0.13 miles
8
Stapehill, plantation
Part of the Forestry Commission's Uddens Plantation, detached from the main body by the A31 to the North.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 28 Nov 2009
0.14 miles
9
Stapehill, trails
At this point, two trails cross Uddens Drive: the Castleman Trailway, and the Ferndown, Stour & Forest Trail. The former roughly follows the route of the "Castleman Corkscrew" railway line, which was actually about 100m to the South.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 28 Nov 2009
0.15 miles
10
Former convent of Our Lady of Delours, Stapehill
This former convent opened in 1992 as a gardens, tea-room and small museum, but has recently (2006?) closed.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: Unknown
0.19 miles