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This is a list of these buildings and structures in the county of Dorset, grouped first by the two unitary authority areas: first Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, then Dorset. Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
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 village name derives from the Old English wīc, meaning "dairy farm". [1] The village is mentioned in the ministers' accounts for the Manor of Christchurch in 1301, at which point the king (as Lord of the Manor) could claim the second-best sheep from every customary fold in Wick (there being at that time six folds), while the tenants in return were allowed pasture in the "demesne arable ...
Christchurch is a town 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.
Hurn Court in Hurn near Christchurch, Dorset, was the home of the Earls of Malmesbury between 1795 and 1951. It was sold on the death of the 5th Earl and opened as a boarding school for boys in 1952, before being developed for housing in the 1990s. It has been a Grade II* Listed building since 1964.
Christchurch contains around 22,800 properties. [85] In 2005 the average price of a detached house in Christchurch was £323,416. [86] On average property in Christchurch is 24% more expensive than anywhere else in England and Wales. [87] Nearly 80% of residences are owner occupied, 3% are vacant and a further 3% are second homes. [76]