History of Bournemouth - Lewis Tregonwell, Langtry Manor, Bournemouth East By-Electiolewis Tregonwell, Langtry Manor, Bournemouth East By-Election, 1977, Christchurch Inclosures ACT 1802, Westover N, 1977, Christchurch Inclosures ACT 1802, Westover (Paperback)

Chapters: Lewis Tregonwell, Langtry Manor, Bournemouth East By-Election, 1977, Christchurch Inclosures Act 1802, Westover, Hampshire. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The History of Bournemouth and human settlement in the surrounding area goes back for thousands of years. In 1800 the area was largely a remote and barren heathland, used only by smugglers and revenue troops. 'Bourne Heath' was also known as Wallis Down in the north and Little Down in the south and east, and was part of the Great Heath of central Dorset which extended as far as Dorchester. To the east was Christchurch, to the west was Poole, and to the north east was the river Stour. There were villages at Kinson, Throop, Holdenhurst and Iford and a handful of buildings at Pokesdown. But the area between these communities was just a wilderness of pine trees, gorse, ferns and heather. The area now called central Bournemouth and the Pier Approach was 'Bourne Mouth' - the mouth of the Bourne Stream. No-one lived at Bourne Mouth and the only regular visitors were a few fishermen, turf cutters and gangs of smugglers who landed their cargoes of spirits, tea and tobacco on the deserted beach. The eastern part of the heath was called the Liberty of West Stour (later, the Liberty of Westover). It was divided into six tythings: 'Muscliff', 'Muccleshell', 'Throop', 'Holdenhurst', 'Iford' and 'Tuckton