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England portal; Subcategories. ... Pages in category "People from Christchurch, Dorset" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Garry Moore (born 1951), 44th mayor of Christchurch; Stacey Morrison (born c.1974), television and radio host; Benjamin Mountfort (1825–1898), dominant local architect; Charles Mountfort (1854–1941), surveyor; Anjali Mulari (born 1993), Christchurch-born international ice and inline hockey player
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]
Pages in category "People from Christchurch" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 217 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
John Cook was mayor of Christchurch five times (1777, 1779, 1781, 1783, 1786). One notorious smuggler, Sophie Dawes later became a French Baroness. [102] Christchurch was popular with smugglers for a number of reasons: Firstly, the only land approaches to the town were across two bridges, and one of these was frequently out of use.
England portal; Biography portal; Natives of Dorset, England ... People from Christchurch, Dorset (1 C, 28 P) People from East Dorset District (2 C, 5 P)
Christchurch has a reputation for being an English city, with its architectural identity and nickname the 'Garden City' due to similarities with garden cities in England, but also has a historic Māori heritage. Christchurch has a temperate oceanic climate with regular moderate rainfall.
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