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Dist:0.3km<br/>On Ashington Lane, a pair of distinctive cottages built by the Ladies Wimborne in the late C19 and early C20 for estate workers. Cottages are sequentially numbered from their building date; these are numbered 106 & 107.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.3km<br/>On Ashington Lane, a pair of distinctive cottages built by the Ladies Wimborne in the late C19 and early C20 for estate workers. Cottages are sequentially numbered from their building date; these are numbered 92 and 93, and dated 1893.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.3km<br/>On Ashington Lane, a pair of distinctive cottages built by the Ladies Wimborne in the late C19 and early C20 for estate workers. Cottages are sequentially numbered from their building date; these are numbered 9 & 10, and dated 1869.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.4km<br/>On Ashington Lane, a pair of distinctive cottages built by Lady Charlotte Guest and her daughter-in-law Lady Wimborne in the late C19 and early C20 for Canford estate workers. Cottages are sequentially numbered from their building date; these are numbered 7 & 8, and dated 1868.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.4km<br/>This house is now occupied by several businesses, and there is also a caravan park here. I'm trying to find out a bit about its history.
©Mike Pimley
Dist:0.4km<br/>On Ashington Lane, a pair of distinctive cottages built by the Ladies Wimborne in the late C19 and early C20 for estate workers. Cottages are sequentially numbered from their building date; these are numbered 98 & 99, and dated 1896.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.4km<br/>The house was built in the 1750s and, more recently, its gardens until the 1990s housed Merley Bird Gardens, a family attraction which displayed all manner of weird and wonderful birds.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.4km<br/>Static caravans and a playground on the north side of the drive to [[205334]]. There is also a touring park.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>View looking NNW along Ashington Lane, showing semi detached houses typical of this road. See my close up photo of a similar one, also in this square.
©Mike Pimley
Dist:0.4km<br/>The two halves of this semi were no doubt symmetrical when built. Note how the further away one has replaced the original porch with one in a completely different style.
©Mike Pimley
Dist:0.5km<br/>At this point, the former line of [[1701155]] becomes obliterated by the modern A31 on the left. The two run side by side for some 130 metres as the track descends to a bridge beneath the new road.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>This bridge carries the A31 Wimborne by-pass over Willett Road, which becomes a farm track beyond this point.
©Mike Pimley
Dist:0.5km<br/>The former stables to Merley House were built by John Nash in about 1805.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>Central to the main building of Merley Hall farmhouse is a late C18 Gothic style gable, which has a niche containing two figures of a man and child set into it.
©Mike Searle
Dist:0.6km<br/>Steer at Merley Hall Farm. The cattle shed is used throughout the year for both sheep and cattle - though not at the same time.
©Brian Ironside

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