Wimborne Minster 

The settlement at Wimborne Minster was established over 1300 years ago when St. Cuthberga founded a nunnery there, though people had been living and working at nearby Bradbury Rings since the Iron Age. The town takes its name from the River Wim and the Minster church that sits on the site of Cuthberga’s nunnery, which was destroyed by the Danes in the early 11th century.

Work on the Minster church started in the 12th century and it features characteristics of all architectural styles from Norman to late Gothic. On the west tower is a famous Quarter Jack, who rings the quarter hour on his bells.

• In King Street is Wimborne Minster Model Town & Gardens, which depicts the town as it was in the 1950s at one tenth of the actual size. The models are set among prize-winning gardens and the exhibition also features a model railway too.