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Old-town streets and the back lanes

Wareham Removals

Wareham's main-street buildings mostly meet the pavement, and the van's spot is part of the access.

Poole Bay Removals quotes Wareham house moves in writing after a survey in person or by video, for moves round Poole or across Great Britain. On the old town's main streets, buildings mostly stand at the back of the pavement, so show the surveyor the door, the pavement and the nearest spot for a van. Moves are carried out by a removals firm with over 250 five-star Google reviews.

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Send four details and the removals firm gets in touch. It takes calls from 9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday.

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Wareham moves: the short version

Survey
In person at your home, or by video link with no app to download
Council parking, if needed
Applied for by the removals team. If anything is ever needed from you, you are told before the job is booked
Price
No price list. What you move and the access at each end set it, in writing before you agree
Packing
Full, part or fragile-only, with the team's own materials
Furniture
Taken apart and put back together, if required
Area covered
Wareham, Corfe Castle, Swanage, Studland, Poole and the other towns within about 10 miles of Poole, and moves to or from anywhere in Great Britain
Office hours
9am to 6pm, Monday to Friday. Outside those hours, send the form

Dorset Historic Towns Survey and Census 2021 checked November 2026

Where does the van stand when the house has no drive?

At the nearest spot on the street, so tell the surveyor where that is. In the old town centre, Dorset Council's historic towns survey of Wareham describes North, South, East and West Streets as lined with long, narrow plots, with few gaps, and buildings generally standing right at the back of the pavement.

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  1. At the back of the pavement. No front garden or drive between the door and the street.
  2. Few gaps. Buildings run on from one to the next along the main streets.
  3. Set back. The survey says the pattern loosens at the north end of North Street and the east end of East Street.
A drawing, not a real street, of what the Dorset Historic Towns Survey (2011) describes.

With no front drive, every box and every bed goes out of the door, across the pavement and into the van at the kerb. If that kerb has yellow lines, the removals team applies to the council for whatever the van needs.

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Booking

What happens between your call and the written quote?

The written quote comes before any agreement.

  1. Address and rooms
  2. Survey from the kerb
  3. The quote, written down

  1. Pass on the Wareham address

    The Wareham address, where you are going, roughly how many rooms, and a number to call back.

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  2. Start the survey at the kerb

    The front door and the pavement outside, then every room, then any way out at the back.

  3. Priced on contents and access

    A cottage on the pavement and a house with a drive are priced the same way, by what is moving and the access. Compare the written figure with what you showed the surveyor.

Most Wareham homes are houses, and 8% are purpose-built flats

At Census 2021, 38% of households in the Wareham ward lived in a detached house, 26% in a semi and 20% in a terrace. Only 8% lived in a purpose-built block of flats.

Wareham ward households, by homeDetachedSemiTerracedBlock of flatsMobile home38%26%20%8%3.6%
Share of the 4,438 households in the Wareham ward, Census 2021, worked out from the Office for National Statistics counts. The amber row is 159 households in a caravan or other mobile or temporary structure. The last 4% live in converted buildings or over shops.
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Moving on to Corfe Castle, Swanage or Studland? It's quoted the same way

Corfe Castle, Swanage and Studland are all inside the area covered, so a move between Wareham and any of them is surveyed and quoted the same way, and each village has its own page in the links.

Questions

Can the van use a back lane? More Wareham questions

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Can the van use a back lane?

It depends on the lane, so show it at the survey. Dorset Council's historic towns survey notes back lanes running parallel behind North, South, East and West Streets.

Does every old-town house open straight onto the pavement?

Not all. Dorset Council's historic towns survey says the pattern loosens at the north end of North Street and the east end of East Street.

Can the packing boxes be collected afterwards?

Yes. A box collection is offered after the move, so mention it when you agree the quote.

Sources for this page, read in November 2026:
  • Dorset Council: Dorset Historic Towns Survey, Wareham, Historic Urban Character Area 1, the Town Centre (February 2011)
  • Office for National Statistics: Census 2021, accommodation type by ward (TS044), via the Nomis bulk download

Old-town street or further out? Say which when you ring

Ring, or use the form, and say if the house is on one of the old town's main streets. The survey is booked from there.

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