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79-682: Bennett was born at Wareham, Dorset , England, the son of Alfred Hockey Bennett, a confectioner , and his wife Emilie, née  Keppel. He was educated at Elm House School, Wareham, under A.E. Skewes; and at the Universität Straßburg , Germany (now in France), under Professor Bartholdy. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge as a student on 1 October 1914, receiving his B.A. in 1919 ( Schuldham Plate , Gonville and Caius College 's most prestigious undergraduate award, 1921); and M.A. in 1923. As Ramadge Student, 1921–1923, Bennett

158-643: A castle on the banks of the River Frome, at a site acquired from the Abbot of Shaftesbury and now known as Castle Close, which became the focus of much fighting between the forces of Stephen and Matilda during the period of civil war in the mid 12th century. The keep was destroyed at an unknown date in the 12th or 13th century, possibly under the terms of the Treaty of Wallingford , and no visible trace remains. Up until this time Wareham had been an important port; however

237-504: A market town , and still holds a market on Thursdays and Saturdays. In 2005 Wareham was named as a Fairtrade Town . Events held in the town include the annual carnival which takes place in July with a parade, fireworks and music by the Quay. A new event is the music festival held in summer, with bands playing on the Quay, at Wareham Town Hall and in the town's pubs. The Wareham Court Leet, one of

316-508: A push-pull system. One or two 4-TC units would be propelled from London to Bournemouth by a 4-REP unit, controlled from the leading cab of the former. At Bournemouth, one or both of the 4-TCs would continue over the non-electric line to Weymouth , hauled by a Class 33/1 diesel locomotive. Trains from Weymouth would follow the same procedure in reverse. Electrification of the South West Main Line between Bournemouth and Weymouth

395-493: A viaduct of 290 arches , which followed a sinuous path to avoid encroaching on Vauxhall Gardens , the local gas works, and Lambeth Palace . The new terminus, designed by Tite and with four platforms, was initially known by a variety of names including York Road, Waterloo Bridge and Waterloo. On the day that Waterloo was opened, the Nine Elms terminus closed to passengers and was replaced by Vauxhall station. In February 1844,

474-458: A cost of £800,000–£900,000. A formal ceremony to mark the start of construction took place at Shapley Heath, near Winchfield , on 6 October 1834, and the contracts for the earthworks and bridges had been let by the end of that month. Giles's strategy was to use numerous small-scale, local contractors, with work taking place simultaneously on multiple sites along the route. By February 1836, just under 10 mi (16 km) had been finished, with

553-496: A fifth track to the four-track stretch of line between Clapham Junction and Surbiton. This was found to be feasible within the existing land (rail corridor), and was seen as the most practicable way of providing more capacity on the route. It would permit up to eight additional trains to run in the peak hour, for a maximum of 32 trains in this stretch. The scheme would also entail more flexible track use, modifying one Windsor Line track to permit use by mainline trains. Options rejected in

632-423: A further 12 mi (19 km) completed by the end of August 1936. Shareholder dissatisfaction with progress led to Giles's resignation on 13 January 1837 and his replacement by Joseph Locke . Locke assessed the progress of the construction works and estimated that around £1.7 million (£200 million in 2023) would be required to complete the line. He dismissed many of the smaller contractors, awarding much of

711-505: A group of Dorset businessmen, led by Charles Castleman , a solicitor from Wimbourne , proposed a railway line linking Southampton to Dorchester. Surveyed by William Moorsom , the Southampton and Dorchester Railway (S&DR) was to take an indirect route to serve as many towns as possible, and its sinuous nature gave rise to the nickname "Castleman's Corkscrew". In particular the line would run via Ringwood , bypassing Bournemouth, which

790-553: A large conifer plantation, Wareham Forest stretches several miles to the A35 road and the southern foothills of the Dorset Downs . To the south east is Corfe Castle and the heathland that borders Poole Harbour, including Wytch Farm oil field and Studland & Godlingstone Heath Nature Reserve . About four miles (7 km) to the south is a chalk ridge, the Purbeck Hills which faces

869-510: A motorbike accident. Wareham Town Museum , in East Street, has an interesting section on Lawrence and in 2006 produced an hour-long DVD entitled T. E. Lawrence — His Final Years in Dorset , including a reconstruction of the fatal accident. The museum also contains many artefacts on all aspects of the history of the town. The Royal Air Force Air Cadets has an Air Training Corps squadron based in

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948-580: A national average of 21%. The largest industry of employment for those who live in Wareham is manufacturing which employs 16.3%. Three other significant areas of employment are: wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles (13.5%), real estate renting and business activities (12.2%) and health and social work (10.5%). [REDACTED] Wareham travel guide from Wikivoyage South West Main Line The South West Main Line (SWML)

1027-517: A new station at Waterloo Bridge was authorised. Three years later, the company acquired the Richmond and West End Railway, which had been authorised to build its own tracks alongside the London–Southampton line between Clapham Junction and Waterloo. Construction of the line north of Nine Elms, known initially as the "Metropolitan extension", began on 11 July 1848. The four-track line was carried on

1106-480: A pair of "slow" tracks to the east with the two "fast" tracks on the western side. This arrangement continues to north of Wimbledon where a flyover transfers the northbound slow line across the fast lines, leaving the inner tracks being used for the fast services and the stopping services using the outer tracks. This arrangement continues to Worting Junction , just after Basingstoke . Many stations on this section had island platforms which have since been removed - this

1185-484: A push-pull modification of 33/0. The Class 12 shunters were air brake fitted and intended as depot shunters and station pilots. The de-icing units were formed of three pairs of 2-Hal and 4-Lav EMU motor coaches coupled back to back and adapted for electro-pneumatic brakes. In later days, there were several changes to allocations and formations. From then until 1988, trains on the Bournemouth to Weymouth section operated

1264-627: A section of South West Main Line to access Southampton. In more detail, London Waterloo – Weymouth services run on the whole length of South West Main Line, and other intercity services which run on a significant portion of the line include: Other services from London Waterloo also run on a section of South West Main Line, except those using the Waterloo–Reading line in the direction of Richmond . In July 2011, Network Rail in its London & South East Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) recommended adding

1343-525: A station on the South West Main Line railway, and was formerly the junction station for services along the branch line to Swanage, now preserved as the Swanage Railway . The steam railway has ambitions to extend its service, currently from Swanage to Norden, near Corfe Castle back to Worgret Junction (where the mainline and branch divided) and into Wareham again. To the north west of the town

1422-499: A station at Farnborough, opened on 24 September 1838. On 14 June 1839, the London and Southampton Railway adopted the new name of the London and South Western Railway (LSWR). Four days earlier, the first trains had run from Winchester to a temporary terminus north of Southampton at Northern Road (now Northam). The extension from Shapley Heath to Basingstoke also opened on 10 June 1839, and

1501-409: Is a 143-mile (230 km) major railway line between Waterloo station in central London and Weymouth on the south coast of England. A predominantly passenger line, it serves many commuter areas including south western suburbs of London and the conurbations based on Southampton and Bournemouth . It runs through the counties of Surrey , Hampshire and Dorset . It forms the core of the network built by

1580-672: Is also the junction for the Fareham line . The line returns to double track until St Denys where the West Coastway Line trails in. At Northam the original route to Southampton Terminus carries on south towards Eastern Docks and the main route curves west to enter a tunnel through to Southampton Central station. The line remains double-tracked most of the way to Weymouth , but there is a single-track section between Moreton and Dorchester South which constrains capacity. The Surrey section, about half of which has become Greater London ,

1659-546: Is divided into four quarters by the two main roads, which cross at right-angles. The medieval almshouses escaped the fire, and some of the Georgian façades are in fact disguising earlier buildings which also survived. With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Wareham became a garrison town with up to 7,000 soldiers living and training locally. The camp was re-located to nearby Bovington in 1922. The town survived

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1738-499: Is evident with wide gaps between station platforms at stations such as Winchfield . The island platforms survive at New Malden , Esher and Walton-on-Thames , although mothballed and out of use. The line continues as double-track to Winchester but expands to three tracks through Shawford station with one up platform and fast and slow down platforms. There are four tracks from Shawford to Eastleigh . The line from Romsey via Chandler's Ford trails in just north of Eastleigh which

1817-401: Is the town's local weekly newspaper. Thomas Hardy in his novels based the town of "Anglebury" on Wareham. Dinah Craik used the town as one of the settings in her novel Agatha's Husband (as "Kingcombe"). Anglebury House - a tea house/restaurant still operating on the high street - was frequented by T E Lawrence . The seat where Lawrence regularly sat is marked by a plaque. Wareham is

1896-486: The Basingstoke Canal , examined potential routes via Guildford and Farnham . However, his favoured alignment, via Basingstoke, was chosen to facilitate a future western branch to Bath and Bristol . His detailed survey was published on 5 December 1833 and the construction of the line from London to Southampton was approved in the London and South Western Railway Act 1834 on 25 July the following year. Under

1975-631: The Bronze Age . The first house discovered dates to the mid 15th century BCE. Archaeological evidence exists of a small Roman settlement, though the current town was founded by the Saxons . The Roman name is unknown, but the town is referred to as Werham in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle entry of 784, from Old English wer (meaning 'fish trap, a weir') and hām ('homestead') or hamm ('enclosure hemmed in by water'). The town's oldest features are

2054-650: The English county of Dorset . The town is situated on the River Frome eight miles (13 km) southwest of Poole . The town is built on a strategic dry point between the River Frome and the River Piddle at the head of the Wareham Channel of Poole Harbour . The Frome Valley runs through an area of unresistant sand, clay and gravel rocks, and much of its valley has wide flood plains and marsh land. At its estuary

2133-824: The House of Commons . Until 31 January 2020, they were also within the South West England constituency of the European Parliament . Prior to 2019, Wareham was also part of the Purbeck District of Dorset, before it was merged with other districts to the Dorset Unitary Authority. Wareham is twinned with Conches-en-Ouche in Normandy , France and with Hemsbach in Germany . Since the 16th century Wareham has been

2212-676: The Isle of Wight to the east, and eight miles (12 km) to the south is the English Channel . The town's strategic setting has made it an important settlement throughout its long history. Excavations at the nearby Bestwall site have produced evidence of transient early Mesolithic activity dating to around 9000 BCE . At the same site four large Neolithic pits containing worked flint and pottery fragments dating to 3700 BCE were found. Three green stone axeheads discovered also probably date to this period. Flint working and potting continued throughout

2291-410: The London and South Western Railway , today mostly operated by South Western Railway . Operating speeds on much of the line are relatively high, with large stretches cleared for up to 100 mph (160 km/h) running. The line has four tracks for most of the length between Waterloo and Worting Junction near Basingstoke , from which point most of the line is double track . A couple of miles from

2370-547: The Second World War largely intact, although five houses were destroyed when a bomb dropped by a German aeroplane fell near St Martin's Church in 1942. Because of the constraints of the rivers and marshland Wareham grew little during the 20th century, while nearby towns, such as Poole , grew rapidly. Wareham contains several places of worship with the oldest being the Saxon churches of Lady St. Mary (substantially modified but

2449-479: The Second World War . The civil parish of Wareham Town encompasses the walled town of Wareham, situated on the land between the rivers Frome and Piddle, together with the area of Northport to the north of the River Piddle, and a relatively small amount of the surrounding rural area. The parish has an area of 6.52 square kilometres (2.52 square miles). The sister civil parish of Wareham St. Martin covers much of

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2528-555: The 108 mi (174 km) between the capital and Bournemouth. Portion working was instituted, allowing trains to split at Brockenhurst, with the front sections running as express services to Weymouth and the rear sections operating as local stopping trains to Bournemouth. The Holes Bay Curve, authorised by the South Western Railway Act 1890 , was constructed by Lucas and Aird and opened on 1 June 1893. The new link allowed London-Weymouth trains to bypass Ringwood, taking

2607-608: The GWR in 1850, was laid with dual-gauge track between Dorchester and Weymouth to allow both companies' trains to operate. The first trains ran over the new line on 20 January 1857, although trains to and from Weymouth could not call at the LSWR's Dorchester station without reversal. The section of the South West Main Line between Christchurch and Bournemouth was built as part of the Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway. The company had opened

2686-410: The LSWR in July 1871. The extension to Bournemouth West , including an intermediate station at Parkstone, opened on 15 June 1874. By 1881, the population of Bournemouth had reached 17,000. The town was served by two stations, neither of which was in the town centre. The LSWR proposed a new station, adjacent to the town hall , on a new railway between the two existing facilities. Local opposition to

2765-589: The LSWR proposed a rival scheme, the Salisbury & Dorsetshire Railway, which would have paralleled much of Castleman's line. Both proposals were considered by the Board of Trade , which favoured the S&;DR, but which also indicated that the route should be standard gauge. The LSWR agreed to lease Castleman's line for an annual sum of £20,000 (equivalent to £2.5 million in 2023). The Southampton and Dorchester Railway Act 1845

2844-732: The Martyr Roman Catholic church on Shatters Hill, Wareham Methodist Church in North St. and the Evangelical Church in Ropers Lane. Sections of the churchyard of Lady St. Mary are managed by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission , containing as it does a number of graves of servicemen who died in a nearby military hospital during the First World War and others, including those of German and Polish servicemen, from

2923-686: The Michaelmas 1920 edition of the Caian (vol. 29, p. 29) there appears Bennett's poem entitled 'The Stranger': :The room grows silent, and the dead return: He is buried in the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge Wareham, Dorset Wareham ( / ˈ w ɛər əm / WAIR -əm ) is a historic market town and, under the name Wareham Town , a civil parish , in

3002-665: The South West Main Line at Woking, opened on 5 May 1845 and was extended to Godalming on 15 October 1849. The line to Richmond was opened on 27 July 1846 and was extended to Windsor on 1 December 1849. The branch to Chertsey opened in February 1848 and the branch to Hampton Court opened in February 1949. On 13 November 1854, the London Necropolis Company opened a short branch west of Woking , allowing funeral trains from its London terminus to reach Brookwood Cemetery . Further branches serving Surrey were opened over

3081-658: The Waterloo terminus, the line runs briefly alongside the Brighton Main Line west branch out of London Victoria , including through Clapham Junction – the busiest station in Europe by railway traffic. The oldest part of the line, in the London Borough of Lambeth , was used from 1994 to 2007 by Eurostar trains running out of Waterloo International . The first written proposal for a railway line linking London and Southampton

3160-932: The college. During the First World War Bennett served in an intelligence unit of the British Army in the rank of second lieutenant (1916–1918), mainly in Palestine. Bennett's first book, Built in Jerusalem’s Wall: A ;Book in praise of Jerusalem , was published under the pseudonym 'Francis Keppel' in 1920. His A History of the German "Novelle" from Goethe to Thomas Mann was brought out by Cambridge University Press in 1934 (2nd ed., revised and continued by H.M. Waidson, London, Cambridge University Press, 1961); an important study of George , Stefan George: A Critical Study , appeared under

3239-446: The construction of a cut-off line between Brockenhurst and Christchurch, which would reduce the distance between the two by around 7 + 3 ⁄ 4  mi (12.5 km) compared to the existing route via Ringwood. The works included a new Christchurch station and the doubling of the single line between Christchurch and Bournemouth East, both completed on 30 May 1886. Progress on the 10 mi 38 ch (16.9 km) cut-off line

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3318-471: The end of the Saxon period, Wareham had become one of the most important towns in the county, to the extent that it housed two mints for the issue of Royal money. The Burghal Hidage lists the town as 1,600 hides , the third largest in the realm. During the Norman conquest of England , in late 1067, William I harried the town as his army passed into the west to lay siege to Exeter . The Normans later built

3397-457: The fastest services taking 5 + 3 ⁄ 4 hours. The LSWR was authorised to acquire the S&DR in the London and South Western and Southampton and Dorchester Railways Amalgamation Act , passed on 22 July 1848. The Southampton and Dorchester Railway Act 1845 gave the LSWR running rights over the southern section of the Wilts, Somerset and Weymouth Railway . The line, which was taken over by

3476-608: The few remaining Court Leets in Britain, meets nightly during the last week in November. In the church of St Martin-on-the-Walls, there is a recumbent effigy of T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in Arab clothing, sculpted by Eric Kennington . Lawrence is buried at Moreton Churchyard where every year a quantity (decreases by one each year) of red roses are left. Near the town is Clouds Hill and Bovington army camp where Lawrence died after

3555-477: The first part of its line, between Ringwood and Christchurch, on 13 November 1862, but passenger numbers were low. The proposal to continue the line to the growing seaside resort of Bournemouth was authorised by the Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway Act 1863 . Work on the 3 mi 52 ch (5.9 km) extension began in late 1865, and the single line opened 14 March 1870. Until December 1872, Poole

3634-417: The first public trains between Blechynden (close to the site of the present Southampton Central station) and Dorchester ran on 1 June 1847. The link to the LSWR opened on 29 July that year, allowing through running of trains between London and Dorset, albeit with a reversal at the Southampton terminus station. The initial timetable was five trains per day in each direction between Nine Elms and Dorchester, with

3713-487: The four spare trailer coaches were two RU, one BFK and one DTSO. It was planned originally that a 3-car single-ended push-pull trailer set formed DTC+BFK+RU would work with a Class 74 to cover 4-Rep heavy maintenance, but this formation never operated and was replaced by the 8-Vab unit 8001; the three cars remained as spares. The other RU was deployed on special trains with TC units when needed. Class 74 were heavy rebuilds of Class 71 electric locomotives ; Class 33/1 were

3792-573: The growth of Poole and the gradual silting of the river caused a decline in trade and by the end of the 13th century most of the foreign trade had transferred to Poole. Local trade continued to be handled at the Quay until the construction of the railway in the 19th century. During the English Civil War , Wareham changed hands several times between the Royalists and Parliamentarians and in August 1644

3871-476: The imprint of Bowes & Bowes in 1954, in a series edited by Erich Heller . Bennett was Erich Heller's doctoral guide at Cambridge; he died in 1958 leaving a large part of the residue of his estate to Gonville and Caius College. Some of Bennett's poems are published in Edward Davison, comp., Cambridge Poets, 1914–1920: An Anthology (Cambridge, W. Heffer & Sons, 1920). In

3950-621: The line has eight tracks. It runs over the Nine Elms to Waterloo Viaduct for much of its length. It crosses beneath the Chatham Main Line where the Brighton Main Line runs alongside it on the southern side. At Clapham Junction , some of these tracks leave on the Waterloo to Reading Line and the remaining tracks are reduced to four. The Brighton Line, which also has four tracks, separates from it shortly afterwards. The four tracks initially have

4029-527: The next Ascension Day King John 's rule would be over. The prophecy turned out to be incorrect, and the King decreed that Peter should be dragged through the streets of the town tied to a horse's tail and hanged together with his son. In 1762, a fire destroyed two thirds of the town, which has been rebuilt in Georgian architecture with red brick and Purbeck limestone , following the earlier street pattern. The town

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4108-651: The next few decades including to Epsom (4 April 1859), to Farnham via Aldershot (2 May 1870). and to Guildford via Cobham & Stoke d'Abernon (2 February 1885). West of Southampton, the Lymington Railway Company opened the first part of its line from Brockenhurst to Lymington Town to paying passengers on 12 July 1858, and services on a second branch serving Romsey, the so-called Sprat and Winkle Line between Redbridge and Andover, began on 6 March 1865. The branch from Wareham to Swanage opened on 20 May 1885. Between London Waterloo and Clapham Junction,

4187-537: The origins are pre-conquest . The Saxon nave was demolished in 1841–2) and St. Martins-on-the-Walls (built c.1030, dedicated to Martin of Tours ). Both are Anglican . The 14th-century building of Holy Trinity Church stands on the site of the Saxon chapel St Andrew's and was until 2012 a tourist information centre. Other churches are the Wareham United Reformed Church in Church Street, St. Edward

4266-484: The project, reduced the journey time between Waterloo and Weymouth by 25 minutes. Class 444 and Class 450 trains were introduced between 2004 and 2006. The majority of passenger services are currently operated by South Western Railway . CrossCountry operates the Bournemouth – Manchester services travelling on the line between Bournemouth and Basingstoke. In addition, Great Western Railway and Southern also operate services into Southampton Central , which use

4345-539: The proposed link resulted in its route being moved northwards, and plans for the central station were abandoned. Instead, a new Bournemouth East station, designed by William Jacomb with a 350 ft × 100 ft (107 m × 30 m) roof, was constructed. It opened on 20 July 1885 and the new link line was commissioned on 28 September 1886. Pokesdown station, between Christchurch and Bournemouth East, opened on 1 July 1886. The South Western (Bournemouth & c.) Act 1883 , passed on 20 August 1883, authorised

4424-640: The remaining work to Thomas Brassey . He also instituted a more rigorous supervision system by his assistant engineers. On 30 June 1837, the London and South Western Railway Deviations Act 1837 was passed, enabling the company to raise further capital and authorising deviations to the route. On 21 May 1838, the first section of the South West Main Line, between Nine Elms and Woking Common , opened with intermediate stations at Wandsworth (later replaced by Clapham Junction), Wimbledon, Kingston (now Surbiton), Ditton Marsh (now Esher), Walton and Weybridge. The extension westwards to Shapley Heath (now Winchfield), with

4503-574: The river has formed the wide shallow ria of Poole Harbour. Wareham is built on a low dry island between the marshy river plains. The town is situated on the A351 Lytchett Minster - Swanage road, linking Wareham with the A35 and A31 roads and the M27 motorway . Wareham is also the eastern terminus of the A352 road to Dorchester and Sherborne , both roads now bypassing the town centre. The town has

4582-587: The rural area to the north of Wareham, including the village of Sandford . Taken together the two Wareham parishes have an area of 36.18 square kilometres (13.97 square miles), with a 2011 population of 8,270 in 3,788 dwellings. Both parishes form part of the Dorset unitary authority within the ceremonial county of Dorset of which it forms the Wareham ward . They are within the Mid Dorset and North Poole constituency of

4661-473: The same month, the locomotive shed at Nine Elms – the last main-line steam shed in England – was closed. Rolling stock constructed or modified and rebuilt under the 1967 electrification project consisted of: The 4-Rep tractor units' 3001–3011 motor coaches were newly built, as were the complete 4-Vep units 7701–7720, but the 4-Rep trailer coaches and all cars in the 4-TC and 3-TC sets 401–428 and 301–303 were conversions from locomotive-hauled stock;

4740-518: The section between Basingstoke and Winchester, which required three tunnels, was finished in May the following year. The opening ceremony for the completed line from Nine Elms to Southampton took place on 11 May 1840, with a directors' train leaving London at 8 am and arriving at the permanent terminus, designed by William Tite , around three hours later. The LSWR did not intend Nine Elms to be its permanent northern terminus, and in 1844 an extension of 1 + 3 ⁄ 4  mi (2.8 km) to

4819-452: The setting for one of the "Amazing Adventures of Scary Bones the Skeleton" series of books for children by Ron Dawson , Scary Bones meets the Wacky Witches of Wareham . The book also includes a photograph of the town bridge and nearby Corfe Castle which also features in the story. Some scenes from the 2002 German ZDF TV production Morgen Träumen Wir Gemeinsam ("Tomorrow We Dream Together") were filmed in Wareham. The hymn tune "Wareham"

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4898-483: The shorter route via Bournemouth and Poole. Opening on the same day was the avoiding line at Branksome, which allowed trains to bypass Bournemouth West, eliminating the need for reversal. The first line to branch from the London–Southampton route was the Eastleigh– Gosport line, opened on 29 November 1841. The line was intended to serve Portsmouth , which could be reached via a floating bridge from Gosport. The station at Eastleigh, originally known as "Bishopstoke",

4977-413: The terms of the 1834 act, the London and Southampton Railway company was authorised to issue shares to the value of £1 million (equivalent to £120 million in 2023) and to borrow a further £330,000. Around half of the money was raised from businessmen from Lancashire , with much of the remainder provided by landowners from south Hampshire. Giles had estimated that his route would take three years to build at

5056-525: The third-rail system which was considered to have a lower upfront cost. An electrical feed from the National Grid was installed at Basingstoke, with power distributed via a network of 19 substations . The project included the replacement of jointed track with continuous welded rail. Regular electric trains from London began operating in public service to Basingstoke on 2 January 1967 and to Bournemouth on 10 July 1967. The final steam-hauled public service between Waterloo and Southampton ran on 8 July 1967. In

5135-420: The town centre. Wareham is twinned with: The population of Wareham according to the 2001 UK Census was 5,665 living in 2,545 dwellings. 99% of Wareham's population are of White ethnicity. 80.33% of the population state their religion as Christian , 12.24% as "No religion" with 6.59% not stated. There is a high proportion of older people in the town: 29.4% of the population are over 60 years old, against

5214-415: The town in ruins. The town was a Saxon royal burial place, notably that of King Beorhtric (d. 802). Also in the town at the ancient minster church of Lady St. Mary is the coffin said to be that of Edward the Martyr , dating from 978. His remains had been hastily buried there and were later taken from Wareham to Shaftesbury Abbey in north Dorset (and now lie in Brookwood Cemetery , Surrey ). By

5293-402: The town walls, ancient earth ramparts surrounding the town, likely built by Alfred the Great in the 9th century to defend the town from the Danes as part of his system of burh towns. The Danes invaded and occupied Wareham in 876, and only left after Alfred returned with an army and made a payment of Danegeld . In 998 they attacked again, and in 1015 an invasion led by King Canute left

5372-601: The town, namely 2185 (Wareham) Squadron ATC . The squadron's cadets regularly partake in activities around the town for charitable purposes such as supporting the carnival, training exercises and parades. The squadron has a Detached Flight based at Swanage . Local news and television programmes is provided by BBC South and ITV Meridian . Television signals are received from the Rowridge TV transmitter. The local radio stations are BBC Radio Solent , Heart South , Greatest Hits Radio South , Nation Radio South Coast and Greatest Hits Radio South . The Wareham Advertiser

5451-448: Was electrified as far west as Pirbright Junction (for Alton) before World War II. It was completed, using the 750 V DC third-rail system, by the London & South Western Railway or the Southern Railway , its successor. Electrification of the South West Main Line between Sturt Lane (near Frimley ) and Bournemouth was authorised in September 1964. Installation of overhead lines was considered, but British Rail instead decided to use

5530-437: Was a small village at the time. Poole, with a population of only 6,000, would be served by a branch from a station at Hamworthy. Castleman hoped to persuade the LSWR to operate the route, but the company refused, fearing that it would not be able to build any further lines west of Salisbury if it accepted. Instead, the Great Western Railway (GWR) agreed to run services using broad-gauge trains. Concerned at this development,

5609-494: Was authorised in January 1986, and work on the £53 million project (£196 million in 2023) began in October that year. To reduce costs, a 5 mi (8.0 km) stretch of line was singled between Moreton and Dorchester South, and the capacity of the 11 kV supply from the National Grid limited train lengths to a maximum of five coaches. The third rail was energised on 11 January 1988, and public electric services began on 16 May that year. The Class 442 units, ordered as part of

5688-527: Was composed by William Knapp (born at Wareham, 1698–9); Knapp composed several other hymn tunes and was parish clerk of Poole. Wareham appears in the 2020 video game Assassin's Creed Valhalla , under the name of Werham. Wareham is the home of Wareham Rangers Football Club who currently play in the Dorset Premier League . It is also the home of Swanage and Wareham RFU. There is a multi activity sports centre and swimming pool situated 500 metres west of

5767-563: Was designed by William Tite, and had opened on 10 June 1839 with the section of line between Basingstoke and Northern Road. A further junction at the station was added with the completion of the Eastleigh–Salisbury line , which opened to freight on 27 January 1847 and to passenger trains on 1 March of the same year. By 1850, four lines branching from the South West Main Line had opened to serve locations in west Surrey and east Berkshire. The Guildford Junction Railway , which diverged from

5846-431: Was granted royal assent on 21 July 1845 and, the following month, Samuel Morton Peto was contracted to build the line. Materials were shipped by sea to Poole and the first part to be completed was the section between Ringwood and Dorchester. Wet weather during the winter of 1846–1847 delayed the completion of the eastern half of the line. Difficulties encountered during the construction of Southampton Tunnel meant that

5925-423: Was hindered by poor weather in spring 1887, which flooded cuttings and damaged embankments. The direct Brockenhurst–Christchurch line opened about a year later than planned, on 5 March 1888, with intermediate stations at Sway, New Milton and Hinton. The initial timetable was nine services per day from London to Bournemouth East, with eight in the opposite direction. The fastest trains took around three hours to cover

6004-542: Was published on 23 October 1830 by a group chaired by the Southampton MP Abel Rous Dottin . The following February, Francis Giles was commissioned to survey the route and a formal scheme, which also included the construction of new docks on the Solent , was presented at a public meeting on 6 April 1831. Giles, who was familiar with the west Surrey and north Hampshire area, having worked as an engineer for

6083-596: Was served by a station on the western side of the Harbour Bridge. Through carriages to London had been introduced by the LSWR in May 1860, and the branch line had been doubled in 1863-1864. The second station to serve Poole opened on 2 December 1872 and was served at first only by Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway trains. It was constructed as part of the Poole and Bournemouth Railway , initially an independent company, but taken over by

6162-489: Was the editor of the Caian , a college magazine; during the Lent term of 1922 he delivered a lecture on 'Poetry and Pessimism'. In 1923 he became 'unofficial fellow' of the college and a Cambridge University lecturer in German. Official fellowship of the college was bestowed on him in 1926, together with the position of Tutor (Senior Tutor, 1931). Bennett resigned from the post of Senior Tutor in 1952, during his presidency of

6241-627: Was the site of a fierce battle with 2,000 Cromwellian soldiers besieging the town. After the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, Wareham was one of a number of towns in Dorset where Judge Jeffreys held the Bloody Assizes , with five rebels being hanged, drawn and quartered on the West Walls, an area known as 'Bloody Bank'. This may also have been the site of the execution of a hermit known as Peter de Pomfret who in 1213 had prophesied that before

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