Penny's Walk - Ferndown's Major Shopping Precent

Ferndown is a small town in Dorset, England, lying north of Bournemouth and east of Wimborne Minster. The town has a population of 26,858 (2001 census). Image File history File links I am the photographer and copyright owner of this photopgraph, and it is taken from my personal collection. ... Image File history File links I am the photographer and copyright owner of this photopgraph, and it is taken from my personal collection. ... Ronda, Spain Main street in Bastrop, Texas, United States, a small town A town is a community of people ranging from a few hundred to several thousands, although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan areas. ... Dorset (pronounced DOR-sit or [dɔ.sət], and sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the south-west of England, on the English Channel coast. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... , Bournemouth is a large town and tourist resort, situated on the south coast of England. ... The Minster Wimborne Minster is a market town in the East Dorset district of Dorset in South West England and the name of the church in that town. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Ferndown has a relatively large elderly population (38.5% are aged 60 or above).^[1] On the outskirts of the town lie the Ferndown and Uddens industrial estates.

Ferndown has very little for teenagers to do due to the local council not providing any facilties for teenagers which has led to a significant anti-social problem in the area.

Ferndown also boasts one of the biggest and most successful upper schools in Dorset. With around 1,224 pupils Ferndown Upper School has one of the highest "'C' and above" records at GCSE in Dorset. There has also been a new system in Ferndown Upper school with houses, which grouped the pupils into 4 different, coloured groups, with many pupils in each group ranging in years. GCSE is an acronym that can refer to: General Certificate of Secondary Education global common subexpression elimination - an optimisation technique used by some compilers This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Ferndown is twinned with Segré, Brittany, France. Segré is a commune of the Maine-et-Loire département, in France. ... Historical province of Brittany, showing the main areas with their name in Breton language The traditional flag of Brittany (the Gwenn-ha-du), formerly a Breton nationalist symbol but today used as a general civic flag in the region. ...

Sport and recreation

Ferndown has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V. There are 471 King George V Playing Fields[2] in the United Kingdom, all part of an enormous memorial to King George V, each of which is an individual registered charity[3]. This is the page for Dorset Main article: King Georges Fields See also: List of King George... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, which he created from the British branch of the German House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ...

Ferndown Golf Club offers two courses, The Old Course also known as the Championship Course and the nine hole Presidents Course.

Ferndown Community Centre is one of the town's main attractions, home to the Barrington Theatre. It is also home to many other small stores which include Tesco's, Superbuy's, Superdrug and the local and quite large Ferndown library.

Also there are many large heathlands arounds Ferndown including Holt heath. Many are good for cycling or walking. There is also a fair amount of woodland. Also on many of the heaths and in much of the woodland there are many burial mounds and small ponds. However recently Ferndown heath visible from King George the V playing field has been subject to several heath fires.

There is also Ferndown leisure centre with many different activities and sports to do and equipment to use. Which is just by the field which means good facilities for outdoor activities to.

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External links

• Ferndown Upper School

Coordinates: 50.802° N 1.891° W Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...