Description

The ultimate insider's guide to Poole
Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides
Part of the international 111 Places/111 Shops series with over 250 titles and 1.5 million copies in print worldwide
Appeals to both the local market (more than 151,000 people call Poole home) and the tourist market (more than 10 million people visit Poole every year!)
Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs

Poole: home to one of the largest natural harbours in the world, award-winning sandy beaches, tons of pottery and Ryvita crispbreads. Well, yes - but what else? Loads, as it happens. Poole and its surrounding areas are fit to burst with places to explore, uncover and enjoy. Whether you're a visitor or a local and want to discover Poole's role in saving Labradors from extinction, where writer H.G. Wells' ashes are scattered, a ghost village that hasn't been inhabited since World War II, a structure built by one of James Bond's relatives, the home of a prime suspect in the Jack the Ripper case, the location for one of Coldplay's music videos, the best place to buy Sherbet Pips, or a very punctual miniature soldier, this guide will point them out, whisper some fun facts and little-known local knowledge in your ear and hopefully leave you raising your eyebrows and saying, 'Well, I never...'