Wareham St Martin

Wareham St Martin is a civil parish in the English county of Dorset. The parish is administered by a parish council with 11 members. At the 2021 census, it had a population of 2,615.
With an area of, Wareham St Martin is larger than the average parish in Dorset, and it includes a mostly rural area north of the town of Wareham, including much of Wareham Forest. The only significant settlement within the parish is the village of Sandford on the A351 road between Wareham and Poole. The parish also includes the Holton Heath trading estate. It is in Dorset unitary district, and for elections to Dorset Council it is part of Wareham electoral ward. It is within the Mid Dorset and [North Poole (UK Parliament constituency)|Mid Dorset and North Poole] constituency of the British [House of Commons|House of Commons].
The parish can trace its origins to the ancient parish of St [Martin's Church, Wareham|St Martin's Church] on Wareham's north walls. However, as Wareham's built-up area grew beyond the walls and into areas that were in Wareham St Martin, such as at Northport, the area of the Wareham St Martin parish has on several occasions been reduced by transfers of the new developments to Wareham town.

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