Compton Acres
Garden in Poole, United Kingdom.
Garden in Poole
Inside Poole
Compton Acres is inside Poole’s built-up area, with 4 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Warmest: May to September
Afternoon highs of 17–22°C, on the Met Office’s 1991–2020 averages for Poole. When to go ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Weather, month by month
Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Poole, and rain in a month. Green months are the warmest.
Compton Acres
Garden in Poole, United Kingdom.
In Poole, inside the town’s built-up area.
- Type
- Garden
- Wikipedias
- Covered in 4 languages
- Town
- in Poole
- Official site
- comptonacres.co.uk
Where Compton Acres is
Orange: Compton Acres. Numbers: the places near it, as listed below. The dashed line is Poole’s built-up area.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · ONS built-up area 2022
Towns near Compton Acres
The towns whose pages list it: the one it is in, those within 5 km of it, then larger towns further out. Each has its own grades, prices and things to do.
Also near Compton Acres
Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Castle · National TrustCorfe Castle12 km away · 190K visitors a year (2010)2
CastleBrownsea Castle3.1 km away3
MuseumRussell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum4.1 km away4
Historic house · National TrustKingston Lacy Estate14 km away5
Castle · English HeritageChristchurch Castle11 km away6GardenGardenBournemouth Gardens2.9 km away7
MuseumPoole Museum4.4 km away8
Heritage railwaySwanage Railway11 km awayVisiting Compton Acres
Where is Compton Acres?
Compton Acres is in Poole, Dorset, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Compton Acres?
Garden in Poole, United Kingdom.
When is the best time to visit Compton Acres?
May to September are the warmest months in Poole, with afternoon highs of 17–22°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Compton Acres?
Within 15 km: Corfe Castle (12 km), Brownsea Castle (3.1 km), Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum (4.1 km) and Kingston Lacy Estate (14 km).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (8)
- Compton Acres: Derbrauni, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Corfe Castle: Albany E. Howarth, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brownsea Castle: Iain A. Wanless, https://www.flickr.com/photos/reemul/, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Russell Cotes Art Gallery & Museum: User:LordHarris, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Kingston Lacy Estate: Vauxford, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Christchurch Castle: Ulli1105, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Poole Museum: Simon Cobb, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
- Swanage Railway: LordHarris at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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