Lytchett Minster is a small town just outside Poole in the county of Dorset, south England. It is part of the Lytchett Minster and Upton parish. Lytchett Minster is linked by the main road between the towns of Poole and Wareham. The settlement is also linked to Upton, a residential Poole suburb, the Upton by-pass route dividing them in-between.