Town Guide - Wareham Town Council

✧ Welcome to Wareham – Mayor’s Introduction. 3
✧ Enjoy Wareham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
✧ Pack a Picnic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
✧ Wareham Town Council. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
✧ Sports and Leisure in Wareham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
✧ Wareham Town Crier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
✧ Diamond Jubilee 2012 and Olympic
✧ Flame Relay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
✧ Wareham Wednesdays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
✧ Wareham Town Band. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
✧ Wareham Carnival . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
✧ Wareham Music Festival. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
WAREHAM TOWN GUIDE
Contents
Map – Wareham Town Centre. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Map – Wareham Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20/21
Food & Drink . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Wine and Dine in Wareham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Wareham – From Bronze Age Settlement to
Modern Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Wareham in Bloom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Wareham in Bloom – Blooming Lovely! . . . . 30/31
Education and Youth Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Father Christmas Parade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Local Information Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Clubs and Societies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Acknowledgements: Wareham Town Council gratefully acknowledges the following for their help in producing
this Guide: Liz Roberts, Manager of the Discover Purbeck Information Centre, Mike O’Hara, Curator at Wareham Town Museum;
Photos: Pam Bowyer-Davis (Wareham Camera Club), Town Clerk Rod Curtis.
Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in the Wareham Town Guide is correct and neither Plus Publishing Services
nor Wareham Town Council accept responsibility for any loss or inconvenience arising from any errors which may have occurred.
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