Visit Merley Places

Welcome to Visit Merley Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Merley

  

Merley Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Merley

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Merley history

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The 1970s housing estate surrounding Sopwith Crescent was built over a period of several years from the Oakley Straight end on former farmland. It was originally called Oakley Garden Village by the developers but soon became incorporated into the adjacent older village.

You can visit Merley places with Walkfo Merley to hear history at Merley’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Merley has 32 places to visit in our interactive Merley map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Merley, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Merley places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Merley & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 32 audio facts unique to Merley places in an interactive Merley map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Merley Places Map
32 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Merley historic spots	Merley tourist destinations	Merley plaques	Merley geographic features
Walkfo Merley tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Merley

  

Best Merley places to visit

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Merley has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Merley’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Merley’s information audio spots:

Priest’s House Museum The Priest’s House Museum is a local museum in Wimborne Minster, Dorset . The museum occupies a Grade II* listed building, a hall house dating from the late 16th or early 17th century .

Wimborne Minster astronomical clock Wimborne Minster astronomical clock is a fourteenth-century astronomical clock . It is regarded as “one of the most ancient working clocks in Europe”

Merley House, Wimborne Merley House in Wimborne, Dorset, is Grade I listed on the English Heritage Register . It was built in 1752 by the bibliophile Ralph Willett and remained in the Willett family until about 1875 . For the next century it was the residence of many notable people .

Merley Merley is a large housing estate in the unparished area of Poole, a mile (2 km) south of Wimborne Minster . Originally called Myrle, Merley was a manor in the tithing of Great Canford (or Canford Magna) The housing estate only covers part of the area that was originally called Merley/Myrle .

Pamphill Pamphill is a village just outside Wimborne Minster, four miles north of Poole . The village has a population of 704 (2001)

Corfe Barrows Nature Park Corfe Barrows Nature Park comprises nine natural areas, covering an area of 90 hectares, within the Borough of Poole . It was designated as a nature park in June 2016 .

Canford Magna Parish Church The Canford Magna Parish Church is a mixture of Saxon, Norman and Mid Gothic architecture. English Heritage have designated it a Grade I listed building.

Visit Merley plaques