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Tuckton is a suburb of Bournemouth, situated on the River Stour in the eastern part of the borough. First recorded in 1271, [1] this was a hamlet in the tithing of Tuckton and Wick until 1894, when the Local Government Act replaced all tithings in England and Wales with civil parishes and district councils.
Northbourne stands on what was once part of the Ensbury Estate one of the earliest settlements that sprung up along the River Stour before Bournemouth was founded. The historic Grade II Listed Dower House in Wimborne Road is to the west of the suburb. Northbourne became a post-war suburb of Bournemouth. [1]
The Stour valley has produced rich evidence for early human (Palaeolithic) activity. Gravel pits in the lower reaches of the river (many underlying modern day Bournemouth) produced hundreds of Lower Palaeolithic handaxes when they were quarried, particular during the late 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. [11]
The other was the Belle Vue Boarding House, which stood where the Pavilion is now and later became the Belle Vue and Pier Hotel. [citation needed] The 1830s also saw the beginnings of Bournemouth Gardens. [3] Bournemouth also acquired its first church in 1838; before this people had to travel to Poole, Holdenhurst or Christchurch for Sunday ...
Perhaps the most outrageous of the bunch is the Phi Mu house, which cost a whopping $13 million to build.At nearly 40,000 square feet, the Neoclassical-style house is a literal mansion with sleek ...
Wick House, 78-84 Wick Lane. Wick today contains a number of Grade II listed buildings, among them Riverside Cottage, a high-pitched thatched cottage adjoining Wick Ferry, and Wick House, a substantial red-brick property almost opposite - probably built in the late eighteenth century for Richard Hughes, a noted informant on local smugglers and the owner of Tuckton Farm.
Location of Calhoun County in Alabama. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Calhoun County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for ...
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.