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19th century building originally inhabited by Cistercian nuns, now a popular garden and crafts centre.
©John Smitten
Dist:0.2km<br/>Pub on Wimborne Road West. Thatch, single-storey with central dormer; central bar with open plan drinking & eating areas. Cask ales on offer at my visit: Fuller London Pride, Ringwood Forty Niner.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.2km<br/>This former convent opened in 1992 as a gardens, tea-room and small museum, but has recently (2006?) closed.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>V-shaped private road with right of way, off Stapehill Road.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.3km<br/>This was latterly used as a farming and domestic bygones type of heritage centre and had acquired many exhibits from the former National Tractor Museum at Hunday. It closed at the end of the 2006 season and the contents were auctioned. It was a pleasant little collection and quite overlooked.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.3km<br/>This modern postbox serves the modestly sized Uddens Trading Estate, which shares its name with Uddens Drive onto which it comes out, and Uddens Water, a stream to the north of here.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>The gardens of this former convent were a popular visitor attraction, incorporating a tea-room and small museum. It closed around 2006.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>Uddens Trading Estate, off Uddens Drive, with an diverse mix of electricity depot, garden, spice, dental, catering, shopfitting & paint stores, with a cafe.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.4km<br/>Telecom mast at the north-eastern corner of Uddens Trading Estate.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.4km<br/>Stile off Uddens Drive at the beginning of a bridleway to Colehill, partially following the course of the old Wimborne to Ringwood railway line.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.4km<br/>Part of the Forestry Commission's Uddens Plantation, detached from the main body by the A31 to the North.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.4km<br/>At this point, two trails cross Uddens Drive: the Castleman Trailway, and the Ferndown, Stour & Forest Trail. The former roughly follows the route of the "Castleman Corkscrew" railway line, which was actually about 100m to the South.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.6km<br/>Modern bungalows on a U-shaped road off Award Road.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking up Award Road towards this postbox, immediately beyond which the road becomes unmade, rendering the cancellation of the speed limit rather academic.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking south west along the track bed of the former Castleman Railway, which closed in 1964. The Castleman Trialway is about 300 metres to the north west and has not followed the line of the old railway since the centre of West Moors. However, it rejoins the old railway at Merley and follows the line to just north of Upton Park.
©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler

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