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WELCOME TO THE CHRISTCHURCH HISTORY SOCIETY. The Society organises ten evening meetings a year, with talks on topics usually involving local history. It organises visits and guided walks and attends community events. The Society is the custodian of the Christchurch Archive, some 20,000 documents, photos and maps, on which a group of volunteers ...
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Christchurch Priory . Christchurch and District Arts...
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The Christchurch History Society has in excess of 20,000...
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Christchurch History Society The Porch Room, Priory House...
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In 1977 Highcliffe Castle was purchased by Christchurch...
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Christchurch town centre and the Harbour are overlooked by...
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The Constable's House and Priory; seen from the Town Bridge. Christchurch is a town, civil parish 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 ...
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Explore Historical Maps of Christchurch and surrounding regions here. An interactive map for places in the local history for the village of Christchurch in Cambridgeshire. https://historyofchristchurch.uk/.
Historical Maps This page features a collection of historical maps related to Christchurch. A range of high-definition maps from different sources and years can be explored here: Key to Map of Chri…
May 7, 2024 · 1876 - 1900 : important events and developments. Sources. First inhabitants. The first people to live in the place now known as Christchurch were moa hunters, who probably arrived there as early as AD 1000. The hunters cleared large areas of mataī and tōtara forest by fire and by about 1450 the moa had been killed off.
After that we recommend exploring the Interactive Map. The Timeline provides a history of key events in the village and surrounding area. The 1999 Village Appraisal has been added – note that it’s just an image scene currently, a transcribed version will be added in the near future.
Christchurch ( / ˈkraɪs ( t) tʃɜːrtʃ /) is a town and civil parish on the south coast [3] of Dorset, England. The parish had a population of 31,372 in 2021. [1] It adjoins Bournemouth to the west, with the New Forest to the east. Part of the historic county of Hampshire, Christchurch was a borough within the administrative county of ...