The first president was Mr. J. C. Nutt.

The name was changed in 1954. SZ09 - OS 1:25,000 Provisional Series Map

Find out more Until the early 19th century, the area in which Bournemouth now stands was just heathland where cattle grazed. The Christchurch Inclosures Act 1802and the Inclosure Commissioners' Award of 1805 transferred hundreds of acres into private ownership for the first time. Tregonwell later bought more land in the area and landowners planted pines on the heath, but there was no settlement at Bournemouth until 1837.





Until the early 19th century the area where Bournemouth now stands was just heathland where cattle grazed.

She loved the area and persuaded him to build a house there. History of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch of the Historical AssociationThe Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole branch of the HA was founded in December 1922 and has been in existence ever since.
Then in 1810, a man named Tregonwell visited the beach with his wife.

By 1881 the population stood at 16,859 and, ten years later, had more than doubled as it reached 37,000 in 1891.To provide you with the best experience, cookies are used on this site. She loved the area and persuaded him to build a house there.

In association with Tapps, he planted hundreds of pine trees, providing a sheltered walk to the beach (later to become known as the 'Invalids walk'). To implement the Act, three Commissioners were appointed to divide up the land and allot it according to an individual's entitlement.

The Commissioners were Richard Richardson of Lincoln’s Inn Field…




Bournemouth is a part of the holiday memories of millions of Britons and travellers from further afield, a proud city and now a university town. It was supposed to be a health resort where guests were given spring water from the Auvergne. What you are reading here about Bournemouth are excerpts from our book The hundred later became the Liberty of Westover when it was extended to include the settlements of North Ashley, Muscliff, Muccleshell, Throop, Iford, Pokesdown, Tuckton and Wick, and incorporated into the Manor of Christchurch. © Copyright Frith Content Inc 1998-2020. The club was founded in 1899 as Boscombe St. John's Institute FC.







A volunteer fire brigade was formed in 1870 and the improvement commissioners were replaced by a mayor and aldermen in 1890.By 1840 a little village had been built at Bournemouth. As a result of his visit, Dr Granville included a chapter on Bournemouth in the second edition of his book.

Modern Bournemouth. Since the 1990s there have been increasing calls for the town, together with Poole, to attain official city status (as per the example of Brighton & Hove) due to its sheer expanse and regional importance.In 1980 Bournemouth was one of the first areas outside a major city to get its own independent radio station. The Pavilion is built. Le plus ancien Appartement à Bournemouth, une Cob grange pensé être plus de 500 ans.

Before it was an established holiday destination, Bournemouth was a real smuggler’s haunt. Parliament approved the Bournemouth Improvement Act in 1856. This is not to say it plunged rapidly downmarket. With the exception of the estate, until 1802 most of the Bournemouth area was common land. The wilder parts of the vale were turned into gardens and walkways. A piped Greenwich time is named for a city in which country?The pleasant climate of southern England, with notably mild winters, not only lengthens the summer tourist season and attracts winter visitors but also favours Bournemouth as a retirement Bournemouth, seaside resort town and unitary authority, geographic county of Dorset, historic county of Hampshire, southern England. Grateful valetudinarians, but only those who could afford to come, flooded into the area. In 1810, Lewis Tregonwell - regarded as the first inhabitant and founder of Bournemouth - visited the beach with his wife.

The town escaped great damage during the Second World War but saw a period of decline as a seaside resort in the postwar era.In 1880, the town had a population of 17,000 people.

They also had powers to provide sewers and drains.The railway reached Bournemouth in 1870, which made it far easier for people to travel to the resort and increased the number of visitors.

1922. for our site. The Christchurch Inclosures Act 1802 and the Inc… Many of these paths including the 'Invalids walk' remain in the town today; forming part of the Pleasure Gardens which extend for several miles along the Bourne stream.



The same year a guide book for the resort was published.In 1877 Red House was built by the Prince of Wales for Lillie Langtry. History at your fingertips Bournemouth started to grow at a faster rate as George William started developing the seaside village into a resort similar to those that had already grown up along the south coast such as Weymouth and Brighton.

History Boscombe. However, in 1936 Bournemouth was afflicted by a typhoid epidemic.In 1864 the town gained gas street lighting and in 1866 a piped water supply was installed. The history of BU Our origins can be traced to the early 20th century, with the foundation of Bournemouth Municipal College.

Timeline History of Bournemouth, Dorset 1805 There were no houses at this time within three miles of the mouth of the Bourne and Edward Brayley described the area as, "...this most dreary waste, serving only in the summer to support a few ordinary sheep and …

In 1841, the town was visited by the physician and writer Augustus Granville.

Since In the 1840s the fields south of the road crossing (later Bournemouth Square) were drained and laid out with shrubberies and walks.