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Monday market, Christchurch High Street. A weekly market was granted to the town by Baldwin de Redvers and the first market took place in 1149 at the junction of Castle Street and High Street. [97] These weekly markets stopped in 1872 but resumed a century later in a car park next to the town hall, now the site of Saxon Square.
Many fans still refer to AFC Bournemouth as Boscombe, a reference to the original names of Boscombe St John's and Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic FC (the word Boscombe was dropped in 1972). There is a thriving street market in the High Street on Thursdays and Saturdays as well as a vintage market on the first Saturday of every month. [6]
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 view of Bournemouth town centre from West Cliff. Lansdowne can be seen in the distance, and St. Peter's Church on the left. Bournemouth town centre is an area of Bournemouth, Dorset. [1] [2] The town centre is the central business district and is located near the coast between West Cliff and East Cliff.
The site is marked by a memorial on the sports fields of St Peter's School. In 1894 Southbourne became a separate civil parish, being formed from part of Christchurch, on 30 September 1902 the parish was abolished and merged with Bournemouth. [8] In 1901 the parish had a population of 799. [9]
Church of St Ambrose: Bournemouth: Church: 1898–1900: 27 February 1976 1108803: Church of St Ambrose. More images ...
236 Tuam Street Christchurch Central City: Media related to A.J. White's Department Store at Wikimedia Commons II ANZ Bank, Christchurch [334] 188 High Street Christchurch Central City Media related to ANZ Bank, Christchurch at Wikimedia Commons II Armstrongs Building, Christchurch [335] 91–107 Armagh Street Christchurch Central City
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.