Worgret | |
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![]() A352 road at Worgret | |
Location within Dorset | |
OS grid reference | SY907870 |
Civil parish | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | WAREHAM |
Postcode district | BH20 |
Dialling code | 01929 |
Police | Dorset |
Fire | Dorset and Wiltshire |
Ambulance | South Western |
UK Parliament | |
Worgret /ˈwɔːrɡrɪt/ is a hamlet in the English county of Dorset. It is situated immediately to the west of the town of Wareham.
Worgret forms part of the civil parish of Arne, within the Dorset unitary authority.
Name
[edit]Worgret shares its name with a 7th-century Abbot of Glastonbury reported by William of Malmesbury.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Edward Huttom, London, 1919, Highways and Byways of Somerset, p.156.
External links
[edit] Media related to Worgret at Wikimedia Commons