Tyneham, Wareham

Name: Tyneham
Address: Lulworth Military Range, Wareham, United Kingdom
Telephone: +44 1929 404819

#8 among attractions in Wareham

Historical place, Museum

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Tyneham is a ghost village and former civil parish, now in the civil parish of Steeple with Tyneham, in south Dorset, England, near Lulworth on the Isle of Purbeck. In 2001 the civil parish had a population of 0. The civil parish was abolished on 1 April 2014 and merged with Steeple to form Steeple with Tyneham. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 50°37'20"N, 2°10'8"W

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Lulworth Military RangeWareham United Kingdom

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+44 1929 404819

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Tyneham – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Blue Pool, Lulworth Estate, Fossil Forest, Hambury Tout.

3.9 miNE
Lake, Museum, Nature and wildlife
Blue Pool
99 min walk • Blue Pool is a flooded, disused clay pit where Purbeck ball clay was once extracted. It is now a lake within the Furzebrook Estate, a 25-acre park of heath woodland and gorse near Furzebrook on the Isle of Purbeck, in the county of Dorset, southern England.
2 miNW
Park
Lulworth Estate, Lulworth
53 min walk • The Lulworth Estate is located in central south Dorset, England. Its most notable landscape feature include a five-mile stretch of coastline on the Jurassic Coast. Part of the area is a World Heritage Site. The historic estate includes the Lulworth Castle and Park.
3.2 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Fossil Forest, Lulworth
82 min walk • The Fossil Forest is the remains of an ancient submerged forest from Jurassic times, located to the east of Lulworth Cove on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England. It lies on the Jurassic Coast, on a wide ledge in the seaside cliff. The site is within the Lulworth Ranges and thus has restricted access.
4.1 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Hambury Tout, Lulworth
104 min walk • Hambury Tout is a large chalk hill by the coast near Lulworth, Dorset, England. It overlooks Lulworth Cove to the west. Hambury Tout is the site of an ancient burial mound.
3.5 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Swyre Head
89 min walk • Swyre Head, Lulworth is a hill and sea cliff which lies on the Jurassic Coast between Bat's Head to the west and Durdle Door to the east, close to Lulworth in Dorset, England.
2 miSE
Tower
Clavell Tower
51 min walk • Clavell Tower, also known as Clavell Folly or the Kimmeridge Tower, is a Grade II listed Tuscan style tower built in 1830. It lies on the Jurassic Coast, on the top of Hen Cliff just east of Kimmeridge Bay in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, England.
2.2 miE
Museum, Specialty museum, Natural history museum
The Etches Collection
56 min walk • The Etches Collection is an independent fossil museum located in the village of Kimmeridge, Purbeck, Dorset, England.
0.7 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Povington Hill
19 min walk • Povington Hill, at 198 metres high, is one of the highest points on the chain of the Purbeck Hills in south Dorset on the southern coast of England.
2.1 miNW
Forts and castles, Vernacular architecture, Gothic Revival architecture
Lulworth Castle, Lulworth
55 min walk • Lulworth Castle, in East Lulworth, Dorset, England, situated south of the village of Wool, is an early 17th-century hunting lodge erected in the style of a revival fortified castle, one of only five extant Elizabethan or Jacobean buildings of this type.
4.6 miE
Church
St James
118 min walk • The Church of St James is the parish church for the village of Kingston, located on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset. The church is a notable example of the Gothic Revival style and is a Grade I listed building.
2.5 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Hill
Purbeck Hills
65 min walk • The Purbeck Hills, also called the Purbeck Ridge or simply the Purbecks, are a ridge of chalk downs in Dorset, England. It is formed by the structure known as the Purbeck Monocline.