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As of January 2023, there are 48 Conservation Areas in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, in Dorset, England. Conservation areas Name Image Area Year Notes Refs Ashington Poole 2002 Historic hamlet in the green belt north of Poole Ashley Cross Poole 1987, amended June 2012 Victorian suburb of Parkstone Avon Buildings Christchurch 1991 Suburb of Christchurch Boscombe Manor Bournemouth ...
Christchurch town centre and the Harbour are overlooked by the 11th-century Christchurch Priory. Once a monastery, it was given to the town for use as a parish church by Henry VIII after the dissolution in 1540. [10]: 141 It is the longest parish church in England with a nave over 311 feet long.
Christchurch (/ ˈ k r aɪ s (t) tʃ ɜːr tʃ /) is a town and civil parish on the south coast [3] of Dorset, England. The parish had a population of 31,372 in 2021. [ 1 ] It adjoins Bournemouth to the west, with the New Forest to the east.
Christchurch is a town, civil parish and former borough in the county of Dorset on the English Channel coast, adjoining Bournemouth in the west, with the New Forest to the east. Historically in Hampshire , it joined Dorset with the reorganisation of local government in 1974 and is the most easterly borough in the county.
The districts of Dorset were Weymouth and Portland, West Dorset, North Dorset, Purbeck, East Dorset, Christchurch, and the unitary authorities Bournemouth and Poole. As there are 508 Grade II* listed buildings in the county they have been split into separate lists for each former district.
The Red House Museum is a free entry museum of local history. The ground floor features a Kitchen Gallery, Victorian Bygones Gallery, costume and fashion collections, and an exhibition of 1930s furniture by the noted Christchurch-based craftsman Arthur Romney Green. The Main Gallery in the former stables hosts regular temporary exhibitions.
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Purewell is part of the Anglican parish of Christchurch Priory. To provide a place of worship closer to the local residents, St John's Mission Church was built in 1880 at the expense of Miss Mary Long [2], on the site of former workhouses, and opened by the Bishop of Winchester in February 1881. [3] In 2020, Purewell lost its Post Office. [4]