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Welcome to Verwood and Three Legged X Community website.
(Select here for a Short History of Verwood)

 

   

This is the place for all your information about Verwood and the surrounding area
 and is an independent, non-commercial site  with no paid advertising.  
It also hosts the official Websites of the following:-

   


Local Societies and event organisers who have any updates, or event dates, that they would like  included for FREE in the 
"WHAT'S ON"
page (normally local and none commercial). Information/articles
may be emailed to the.

 

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Verwood Details

 Post town  Verwood 

Constituencies

 District Postcode  BH31 ---
 District  East Dorset  UK Parliament

 North Dorset

 Dialing code  +44 (0)1202 ----
 Shire county  Dorset  European Parliament

 South West England

 OS grid reference  SU0808
 Region  South West  Why not listen live to Verwood's Own 
Community Radio Station

 "ForestFM" 
while you browse this site. Select the AE. 
 Police  Dorset
 Constituent country  England   Fire  Dorset
 Sovereign state  United Kingdom Ambulance  South Western

 

 Latest News & Updates - Verwood Dorset UK.
also check the Verwood Noticeboard.

Dont Forget
Verwoods' 7th Talented Youth Concert
Verwood HUB - Saturday the 11th February 2012. 
- 2 performances at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

 - for tickets Contact the HUB on 01202 828740  - www.thehubverwood.co.uk
A variety show by young people up to age 18 including music, song, dance and drama. 
 

Has now 
ceased trading

"Club 31" - IMPORTANT NOTICE

PLEASE NOTE that "Club 31" ceased trading on the 28th of December 2011 and NO further events will occur at that venue. 

New venues are as follows.

Verwood Twinning Association meetings

- the Parish Rooms behind 
St. Michael's Church.
meeting start time now 8 p.m.
(hall open from 7.30 p.m.)

Verwood Jazz Club 

The new venue is:-
   Drusilla’s Inn , Wigbeth, Horton, Dorset BH21 7JH.

 

Mayors Christmas 
Reception 2011

On Sunday the 4th December 2011, Verwoods Mayor Cllr Toni Coombs and the Town Council welcomed dignitaries from the local areas with a visit to the  Heritage Centre where they enjoyed a talk given by Sue Gardiner on the "Origins of Pantomime". Later they were entertained by the Dorset Junior Jazz Band before enjoying a reception and meal in the HUB.

The latest 
verwood & Three Legged Cross 
Official Guide is now available.

You can pick up 
your Personal copy
 from the Town Hall in Vicarage Road.

Verwood and Three Legged Cross Twinning Association 

returned from France on the 6th of June 2011 after their visit 
to Champtoceaux.

 Please select here for a full report with pictures 


every Friday 
from 10 a.m. to noon.

Normally held Every Friday from
  10 a.m. to 12 noon in Verwood Memorial Hall.  
 It has stalls offering,
Crafts, Art, Toys, Cakes, Preserves, Teas, Veg and Plants, etc.
 

A new book about Verwood has recently been published in 2010, 
"Memorial Hall Jubilee Book"
 
which recounts 50 years of memories and anecdotes with photos, some in colour, of the Verwood Memorial Hall.

It is now on sale priced at £6 at the Verwood Heathland Heritage Centre (9am – 12 noon, Mon. to Sat. & Sun. from 2 - 4 p.m.) .
  Copies can also be ordered by post at £7  inc. post and packing  from:-
 Angela Daymond, 24 Aspen Drive, Verwood BH31 6TE. 
(make cheques payable to Verwood Memorial Hall Trust),

  Verwood Historical Society are pleased to announce    
the publication of a new book

"VILLAGE TO TOWN"
Written and compiled by
Jill Coulthard.

Priced at £10 it can be obtained from

Verwood Heathland Heritage Centre

Verwood Post Office

Three Legged Cross Post Office.

Dorset Family History Society

Priest’s House Museum, Wimborne

Paperview Ringwood

Please visit the the Historical Society Website
 for information about Postal Copies

 

 

Snippet ...
Some think that Three Legged Cross may have been named after the gallows,
       which were often nicknamed the three legged mare.

Verwood has a namesake ...
 ... in Saskatchewan, Canada. It appears now to be mainly a Ghost Town with few families remaining It has many old buildings included houses, church, grain elevator and an old wooden pavement.
 

 

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