Gore Heath

Gore Heath

Gore Heath is an area of coniferous woodland and open heathland forming part of Wareham Forest west of the Poole-Bournemouth conurbation in south Dorset, England. It is part of the Dorset Heaths and an SSSI.

Gore Heath lies about 1 kilometre west of the hamlet of Organford and 2 kilometres north of Sandford. To the west, on the far side of the B 3075, are Decoy Heath and Morden Heath. Its northern boundary is the River Sherford, beyond which is farmland and the hamlet of Slepe on the A 35.

Gore Heath is a popular walking, horse riding and cycling destination as well as a habitat for rare sand lizards and ground-nesting birds.[1]

It has recently been the centre of a controversial plan to turn most the area over for the extraction of gravel with fears that it will subsequently become a landfill site.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 Dorset gravel plan for forest gets over 200 objections at www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 14 Dec 2014
  2. ↑ Gravel plan to ‘destroy’ area at www.bournemouthecho.co.uk. Retrieved 14 Dec 2014.

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