Wheels for Freedom

Providing Shopmobility services in Dorset and mobility at public events

 

 

Full membership - £20 per year.   Members can use all of our town centre services for just £1 per trip.  Full members are also entitled to a£5 discount per day at Out n’ about events if using our service - Not applicable to events where the loan charge is less than £5 per day.

 

Trial membership - £10 for 3 months.  Members can use all of our town centre services for just £1 per trip.

 

Day visitors (pay on the day) - £5 deposit and £3 for a wheelchair or £6 for a scooter.

Charles Street adjacent to South Walks

Telephone 01202 661770       Email ross@pooleshopmobility.org.uk

Mobility equipment is available 9.45 until 3.45 every Wednesday and must be booked in advance.  

Dorchester is noted as being home and inspiration to the author Thomas Hardy, whose novels Tess of the d'Urbervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge were both based on the town.

 

Dorchester's roots stem back to prehistoric times. Settlements were first based around Maiden Castle, a large Iron Age hill fort that was one of the most powerful settlements in pre-Roman Britain, with varying tribes having existed there since 4000 BC.

 

The Durotriges were likely to have been there at the arrival of the Romans in 43 AD.

The Romans walled the town and the remains can still be seen today. The walls were largely replaced with walks that form a square inside modern Dorchester. Known as 'The Walks' a small segment of the original Roman wall still exists today near the Top 'o Town roundabout.

 

On the hills to the south west of the town, stands Hardy's Monument, a memorial to the other local Thomas Hardy, Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, who served with Lord Nelson,

 

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