Visit Poundbury Places

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

  

Poundbury Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Poundbury

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Poundbury history

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Driehaus Prize winner and New Classical architect Léon Krier was hired in 1988 to design the development. Construction commenced in 1993, and is expected to be complete around 2025. The final configuration will support approximately 5,800 people.

You can visit Poundbury places with Walkfo Poundbury to hear history at Poundbury’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Poundbury has 58 places to visit in our interactive Poundbury 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 Poundbury, 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 Poundbury places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Poundbury & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 58 audio facts unique to Poundbury places in an interactive Poundbury map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Poundbury Places Map
58 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Poundbury places to visit

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

Poundbury Hill Poundbury Hill hill fort (grid reference SY682911) is the site of a Middle Bronze Age enclosure . It overlooks the county town of Dorchester, Dorset, England .

Durnovaria Durnovaria is a suggested spelling for the Latin form of the name of the Roman town of Dorchester in the modern English county of Dorset . It is suggested that the first element in the name, *durno- may mean “fist” like (Welsh dwrn ‘fist, knob’) and the second may be related to Old Irish fáir ~ fóir denoting a confined area or den .

Dorchester Castle Dorchester Castle was a motte and bailey castle in the market town of Dorchester, Dorset, southern England (grid reference SY692909)

Maumbury Rings Maumbury Rings is a Neolithic henge in the south of Dorchester town in Dorset, England (grid reference SY690899) It is a large circular earthwork, 85 metres in diameter, with a single bank and entrance to the north east. It was modified during the Roman period when it was adapted for use as an amphitheatre. The site was remodelled during the English Civil War as an artillery fort guarding the southern approach to Dorchester.

Came House Came House is a privately owned country house next to the village of Winterborne Came, in Dorset. Built in the mid-18th century, it is a Grade I listed building.

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