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AFTER more than 165 years of trading, the famous Wimborne Market looks set to leave its current site. The site, off Station Road, has been earmarked for a new retirement village by McCarthy & Stone, with a planning application submitted earlier this year. The market has been operating on the site up until now, and the organisers have sought permission to relocate to the Wimborne Show ground. But what’s happened at the market to get to where we are today? THE HISTORY OF WIMBORNE MARKET The market was founded in 1855 by Thomas Ensor. He bought the fields and joining the new Wimborne railway station and the market grew into one of the largest livestock markets in the south west. ....