In the top row of pictures:

• View of Wareham from the south-east (SY 930 863) (picture)
• River Frome, downstream of Wareham (picture)
• The Saxon town walls, western side of Wareham (picture)
• The view northwards along South Street and North Streets (picture)
• Church of St Martin, Saxon, contains several wall paintings from the 12th century and an effigy of T.E. Lawrence. The most complete example of a Saxon church in Dorset (picture)

In the bottom row of pictures:

• The view from the entrance doorway of St Martin's, southwards along North Street (picture)
• Corner of Pound Lane and Trinity Lane – the Rev. John Hutchins M.A., rector of Wareham 1744–73, compiled here his History of the Antiquities of the county of Dorset (picture)
• West Street, including one of the last cinemas still lit by gas lights (tours of the cinema during Dorset Architectural Heritage Week) (picture)
• West Street (picture)
• River Frome and The Quay, Church of St Mary behind (picture)

Other sites on the web

Purbeck District Council:   events, facts, links and accommodation

Bestwall Quarry Archaeology Project:   ongoing excavations in the gravel quarry to the east of Wareham, with finds ranging from the Mesolithic right through to Post-Medieval

The Dorset Page:   Wareham – local information and links to further resources on the web

Maps of the area on streetmap.co.uk:   1:50,000 – detail, 1:250,000 – locality and route to get there

The pictures of Wareham in this gallery were captured at high resolution.
This is images of dorset stock photography gallery 021
All photographs copyright © 1998–2003 John Allen