Poole

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Poole

Total population

154,718

Coordinates50.72°, -1.98°

Demographic figures from UK Office for National Statistics. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Poole is a coastal town, seaport on the south coast of England and civil parish in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area in Dorset, England. The town is 21 miles (34 km) east of Dorchester and adjoins Bournemouth to the east. The town had an estimated population of 151,500 making it the second-largest town in the ceremonial county of Dorset. Together with Bournemouth and Christchurch, the conurbation has a total population of 400,196 as of the 2021 census.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

David Mellor

former British politician, non-practising barrister, broadcaster, journalist and businessman (born 1949)

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Freddie Mills

British boxer (1919–1965)

David Croft

English writer, producer and director (1922-2011)

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Charles E. O. Carter

English astrologer and astrological writer

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Olaf Pooley

British actor (1914-2015)

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Anthony Cornwell

English cricketer (1929-2017)

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Brian Wood

Footballer (1940-2014)

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David Best

English footballer ( 1943-2025)

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Edwin Keppel Bennett

British writer

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George Brown

English amateur footballer (1883-?)

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Jimmy White

English footballer (1942-2017)

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Ken Ames

Footballer (1933-2010)

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Michael David Irving Gass

Colonial official

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Sir John Barker-Mill, 1st Baronet

English cleric and cricketer (1803-1860)

Thomas Pride

English sailor (1835–1893); recipient of the Victoria Cross

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C.C.L. Gregory

British astronomer

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in England

• Upton
  2.6 mi away
• Wareham
  6 mi away
• Knowlton
  11.9 mi away
• Verwood
  12.1 mi away · pop. 15
• Ringwood
  12.2 mi away
• Alum Bay
  18.5 mi away
• Sturminster Newton
  20.2 mi away
• King's Stag
  21.7 mi away
• Stock's Cross
  22 mi away
• Wilton
  25.6 mi away
• Gillingham
  25.6 mi away
• Hythe
  27.6 mi away

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Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Poole

The Moon Pool

A. Merritt · 1919

The Swimming-Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst · 1988

The Pool of St. Branok

Eleanor Burford · 1987

Poole local plan

Poole (England). Borough Council. · 1997

The Silent Pool (A Miss Silver Mystery)

Patricia Wentworth · 1954

Book of common prayer

Church of England · 1537

Sherlock Holmes and the Mystery of Boscombe Pool

J. Y. K. Kerr · 1991

Pool of dreaming

Dana James · 1988

Search results from Open Library.

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