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cc1fc0c2-c0db-4de1-9992-b41e2385df3b. An account of Christchurch during WW2 including coastal defence, anti-tank island and civil defence
Early history. Saxon period. The Priory church. The castle. The leper hospital. The English Civil War. 18th and 19th centuries. Ambitious plans. The Battle of Mudeford. Workhouses and poor relief. Schooling. Services and transport. 20th century. Services and transport. World War II. Archaeology. Industrial history. Boatbuilding.
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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 ...
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 ...
- 19.5 sq mi (50.4 km²)
- Dorset
- 31,372 (2,021 Census)
- South West England
Sep 24, 2014 · World War Two: A Map of All the Bombs That Fell On Dorset. War Articles. Sep 24, 2014 Ian Harvey, Guest Author. When he set out to plot the locations of every single bomb that was thrown in Dorset during World War Two, the pensioner that not imagine he work will get the recognition it is receiving now. After successfully registering every ...
Christchurch sits between two rivers – the Avon and the Stour – and research indicates it began as an early Saxon settlement. It was originally known as Tweoxneam (Twynham) from Old English meaning between two rivers.
War underway. In May 1940, Hitler's armies swept through western Europe, knocking Britain's allies out of the war with bewildering speed and leaving the British Expeditionary Force horribly exposed.
