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May 7, 2024 · Health and the city. The increase in the number of people living in the city led to serious public health problems. From 1872-75 there were epidemics of diptheria and whooping cough every year, and in the typhoid epidemic of 1875-76 152 people died in Christchurch. These diseases are all diseases of poverty - poor food and unhealthy living ...
May 7, 2024 · The first meeting of the Christchurch Municipal Council was held on 3 March 1862. In November of that year it became the Christchurch City Council by virtue of the Christchurch City Council Ordinance, but between June and October 1868, was known as the Christchurch Borough Council in compliance with the Municipal Corporations Act passed by ...
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Mar 14, 2021 · By the 12th century, Christchurch also had an annual fair. In the Middle Ages, a fair was like a market except it was held once a year and people would come from a wide area to buy and sell at one. From the 13th century, there were 2 fairs in Christchurch. One was held in June, the other in October. To us, Medieval Christchurch would seem very ...
History records that the English Church was founded by St Augustine in AD 597, but Christianity in Britain goes back much further than this. Published: April 8, 2020 at 4:44 PM. Christianity had been present in the British Isles for at least three centuries before St Augustine's Vatican-sponsored mission to Christianise the kingdom of Kent in ...
How then did Christchurch get its name? Well, there is the theory that the city was called after a patron saint of Canterbury Cathedral, England, which was consecrated by St. Augustine in A.D. 597 under the name of Christ Church. This is plausible, because the Archbishop of Canterbury was the first President of the Canterbury Association, and ...
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 ...
There has been a church on the site of Christchurch Priory for over 1300 years, from the first Saxon building to the glorious Priory Church you can see today. The current building of Christchurch Priory was built in the 11th century, although the medieval roof still exists and is visible above the newer one. The roof includes the Miraculous ...
