Gore Heath

Gore Heath is an area of coniferous woodland and open heathland forming part of Wareham Forest west of the Poole-Bournemouth conurbation in south Dorset, England.

Gore Heath lies about 1 kilometre west of the hamlet of Organford and 2 kilometres north of Sandford.

Its northern boundary is the River Sherford, beyond which is farmland and the hamlet of Slepe on the A 35.

Gore Heath is a popular walking, horse riding and cycling destination as well as a habitat for rare sand lizards and ground-nesting birds.

[1] It has recently been the centre of a controversial plan to turn most of the area over for the extraction of gravel with fears that it will subsequently become a landfill site.