Colehill

The River Stour would have been navigable; there is evidence that in about 500 BC, peoples from Continental Europe were populating the South West, bringing the culture of the early Iron Age.

Part of the tracks survive, running parallel to the river from the coastal fort through modern locations such as Parley and Stapehill to Badbury Rings.

Later in Roman times Wimborne developed as an important trading centre on the River Stour, and as a junction for further tracks from Poole to Badbury Rings and on to Salisbury.

Traffic calming in Middlehill Road has been introduced and the major roundabout on the A31 at Canford Bottom has been re-engineered.

A parish initiative succeeded in rebuilding the Reef as a youth and community centre for the people of Colehill and Wimborne.

The area is well wooded and the local Forestry Commission plantation at Cannon Hill is very popular for walking.

As of 2014 a significant part of Colehill (including the New Neighbourhoods) was designated as a parish ward of Wimborne.

In part compensation areas of Stapehill, west of the Canford Bottom roundabout, were transferred from Ferndown to the Colehill parish ward.