Poole
Poole is a coastal town and seaport in Dorset, on the south coast of England. Poole is a tourist resort, attracting visitors with its large natural harbour, history, the Lighthouse arts centre and Blue Flag beaches.Photo: Chris Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Poole Museum
Museum
Poole Museum is a currently closed local history museum situated on the Lower High Street in the Old Town area of Poole, Dorset, and is part of the Borough of Poole Museum Service.
Poole Guildhall
Government office
Photo: BarretBonden, Public domain.
Poole Guildhall is a municipal building in Market Street, Poole, Dorset, England.
Poole Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Lorraine and Keith Bowdler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Poole Hospital is an acute general hospital in Poole, Dorset, England.
Localities in the Area
Parkstone
Suburb
Photo: Mike Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Parkstone is an area of Poole, Dorset. It is divided into 'Lower' and 'Upper' Parkstone.
Canford Heath
Suburb
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Canford Heath is a suburb and area of heathland in Poole, Dorset, known for being the largest heathland in Dorset, and the largest lowland heath in the UK. Canford Heath is situated 2½ miles north of Poole.
Hamworthy
Suburb
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hamworthy is a village, parish, peninsula and suburb of Poole in Dorset, England.
Poole
- Type: Town with 155,000 residents
- Description: town and seaport in the county of Dorset, England
- Categories: unparished area and locality
- Location: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.7179° or 50° 43' 5" northLongitude
-1.9815° or 1° 58' 54" westPopulation
155,000Elevation
20 feet (6 metres)IATA airport code
POQOpen Location Code
9C2WP299+59OpenStreetMap ID
node 17858754OpenStreetMap Feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2640101Wikidata ID
Q203349Poole Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Poole
- Arabic: Poole
- Arabic: بول
- Aragonese: Poole
- Armenian: Պուլ
- Asturian: Poole
- Azerbaijani: Pul
- Azerbaijani: Puul
- Basque: Poole
- Belarusian: Пул (Англія)
- Belarusian: Пул
- Bengali: পুল
- Bengali: পুলে
- Breton: Poole
- Bulgarian: Пул
- Catalan: Poole
- Cebuano: Poole (kapital sa kondado)
- Cebuano: Poole
- Chinese: Poole
- Chinese: 普勒
- Chinese: 普尔
- Chinese: 普爾
- Czech: Poole
- Danish: Poole
- Dutch: Poole
- Egyptian Arabic: بول
- English: Poole, Dorset
- English: Poole, England
- Esperanto: Poole
- Estonian: Poole
- Finnish: Poole
- French: Poole
- Georgian: პული
- German: Poole
- Gujarati: પૂલ
- Hebrew: פול
- Hungarian: Poole
- Interlingue: Poole
- Irish: Poole
- Italian: Poole
- Japanese: プール
- Kannada: ಪೂಲೆ
- Korean: 풀
- Ladin: Poole
- Latin: Poole
- Lithuanian: Poole
- Lithuanian: Pulas
- Luxembourgish: Poole
- Min Nan Chinese: Poole
- Norwegian: Poole
- Norwegian Bokmål: Poole
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Poole
- Persian: پول، انگلستان
- Polish: Poole
- Portuguese: Poole
- Quechua: Poole
- Romanian: Poole
- Russian: Пул
- Scots: Poole
- Serbian: Poole
- Serbian: Pul
- Serbian: Пул
- Serbo-Croatian: Poole
- Silesian: Poole
- Slovak: Poole
- Slovenian: Poole
- South Azerbaijani: پول، اینگیلیس
- Spanish: Poole
- Spanish: Poole (Dorset)
- Swahili: Poole
- Swedish: Poole
- Tamil: பூலி
- Tamil: பூலே
- Tatar: Пул (шәһәр)
- Tatar: Пул
- Telugu: పూలే
- Telugu: పూల్
- Ukrainian: Пул
- Urdu: پول، انگلستان
- Vietnamese: Poole
- Volapük: Poole
- Waray (Philippines): Poole
- Welsh: Poole
- Wu Chinese: 普尔
- Yue Chinese: 普爾
Other Places Named Poole
Localities in the Area
- SterteSuburb
- Old TownSuburb
- LongfleetSuburb
- Lower HamworthySuburb
- OakdaleSuburb
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Poole. Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.