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Christchurch Town Centre is the town centre of Christchurch, a town in Dorset (historically in Hampshire). [1] The town centre is a major shopping district in East Dorset . [ 2 ]
Warner's Hotel in 50 Cathedral Square, Christchurch is the site of a hotel established in 1863. The original building, extended on numerous occasions, burned down in 1900. The original building, extended on numerous occasions, burned down in 1900.
Christchurch was founded in approximately AD 650 by missionaries sent to Wessex by St Birinus, the first Bishop of Dorchester (Oxfordshire). They settled on a stretch of raised land between the rivers Avon and Stour which carried people and their wares to and from market settlements such as Blandford and Old Sarum (near modern Salisbury). [4]
In 2006, the South West England Regional Development Agency and the Highways Agency, which maintains England's trunk roads, defined a South East Dorset Conurbation with over 400,000 people. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The term has also been applied to the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole boroughs, excluding the surrounding towns, for example, in their 2006 ...
Bournemouth and Christchurch were historically part of the county of Hampshire, while Poole was historically a part of Dorset and was a county corporate. By the mid-20th century, the towns had begun to coalesce as a conurbation , and in the Local Government Act 1972 the three areas were brought together under the non-metropolitan county of ...
They were replaced by two unitary authorities: Dorset Council and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council. [5] The way the changes were implemented was to redefine the non-metropolitan county of Dorset to remove the borough of Christchurch, which was merged with Bournemouth and Poole to create Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
2019 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council election: Burton and Grange (2 seats) Party Candidate Votes % ±% Independent: David Flagg* 1,196 : 51.2 : Independent: Simon McCormack : 1,053 : 45.1 : Labour: Claire Wade 525 22.5 Labour: Andrew Dunne 420 18.0 Conservative: Wendy Grace 363 15.5 Conservative: Brian Case 358 15.3 Green: Benjamin ...
Dorset is a unitary authority area, existing since 1 April 2019, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It covers all of the ceremonial county except for Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole .