Decoy Heath

picture info	Decoy Heath Decoy Heath is an area of open heathland and bog forming part of Wareham Forest west of the Poole-Bournemouth conurbation in south Dorset, England. It is part of the Dorset Heaths. Decoy Heath is the lower part of Morden Bog, which is a National Nature Reserve, and lies in the centre of Wareham Forest about 2.5 kilometres north-northwest of the village of Sandford, Dorset, Sandford to the west of the B 3075. To the east, across the B road is Gore Heath; to the north, beyond the Sherford River, the land rises up to the open hillsides of Chitten Hill (41m) and to the south to wooded slopes of Great Ovens Hill (37m). To the west are Morden Heath, Northport Heath and Trigon Hill. The Hardy Way runs along the western edge of the heath and there is a memorial by the wayside. The Decoy Pond and its associated overnight shelter are a scheduled monument. It is one of only two surviving decoy ponds in Dorset. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Wareham Forest Walk - Decoy Heath - Geograph Wareham may refer to: Places * Wareham, Dorset, England * Wareham, Massachusetts, United States, a town * Wareham, Minnesota, United States, an abandoned townsite * Wareham, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada * Wareham, Ontario, Canada * Wareham Island, Nunavut, Canada People * Andrew Wareham, British historian * Arthur Wareham, British newspaper editor * Dave Wareham, American basketball player * Dean Wareham, New York-based musician with Galaxie 500, Luna, Dean and Britta * Jack Wareham, English footballer * Louise Wareham Leonard, American author * Nicholas Wareham, British epidemiologist * Pete Wareham, London-based saxophonist with Acoustic Ladyland, Polar Bear, Melt Yourself Down See also * Warham (other) Warham may refer to: ;Places * Warham, Herefordshire, England * Warham, Norfolk, England ;People * Joe Warham - English rugby league footballer, coach and administrator * John Warham - New Zealand ornithologist * William Warham (1450-1532) - Arch ... { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Sandford, Dorset Sandford is a village in the English county of Dorset, on the A351 road some two miles from Wareham and seven miles from Poole. Sandford forms the only significant settlement within the civil parish of Wareham St. Martin, which otherwise covers much of the rural area to the north of Wareham. The parish forms part of the Purbeck local government district within the county of Dorset. It is within the Mid Dorset and North Poole constituency of the House of Commons. Prior to Brexit in 2020, it was in the South West England constituency of the European Parliament. The electoral ward is also called St.Martin, and includes Holton Heath with the surrounding countryside. The total population at the 2011 census was 2,774. To the north lies Gore Heath, part of Wareham Forest, which is the subject of a controversial proposal for gravel extraction A gravel pit is an open-pit mine for the extraction of gravel. Gravel pits often lie in river valleys where the water table is high, so t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Scheduled Monument In the United Kingdom, a scheduled monument is a nationally important archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change. The various pieces of legislation that legally protect heritage assets from damage and destruction are grouped under the term "designation." The protection provided to scheduled monuments is given under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, which is a different law from that used for listed buildings (which fall within the town and country planning system). A heritage asset is a part of the historic environment that is valued because of its historic, archaeological, architectural or artistic interest. Only some of these are judged to be important enough to have extra legal protection through designation. There are about 20,000 scheduled monuments in England representing about 37,000 heritage assets. Of the tens of thousands of scheduled monuments in the UK, most are inconspicuous archaeological sites, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Hardy Way {{Use British English, date=March 2018 The Hardy Way is a waymarked long-distance footpath in southern England in the United Kingdom. Length of the Hardy Way The route runs for 354 km or 220 miles. The route The route is named for the writer Thomas Hardy and runs through Thomas Hardy's Wessex, his version of Wessex, the region of the West Country of England portrayed in his books, such as '' Tess of the d'Urbervilles'', ''The Mayor of Casterbridge'', '' Far From the Madding Crowd'', ''Jude the Obscure'' and others. It starts at Higher Bockhampton, where Hardy was born, and finishes at Stinsford churchyard, where Hardy's heart lies buried. It passes through Dorset and takes in along the route such villages and towns as Bere Regis, Lulworth Cove, Corfe Castle, Shaftesbury Shaftesbury () is a town and civil parish in Dorset, England. It is situated on the A30 road, west of Salisbury, near the border with Wiltshire. It is the only significant hilltop settlement in D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Trigon Hill Trigon Hill is a hill on the edge of a clay pit near Cold Harbour, Dorset, on the Dorset Heaths The Dorset Heaths form an important area of heathland within the Poole Basin in southern England. Much of the area is protected. Extent According to Natural England, who have designated the Dorset Heaths as National Character Area 135, th .... It rises about 3 kilometres northwest of the centre of Wareham. OS, ''Landranger'' 1:50,000 map series, No. 195 References Hills of Dorset {{Dorset-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]