Dorset’s towns from the air – Christchurch
Stephen Roberts surveys the town from above before descending to look at a dozen points of interest.
Published in October ’21
SELECTING twelve places in Christchurch for a ‘Delightful Dozen’ was never going to be easy. If the phrase ‘spoilt for choice’ ever applied, it was right here and now. Christchurch, once of Hampshire but now of Dorset, has no fewer than 335 listed buildings of which a magnificent seven are of the glittering grade I.
The town punches above its weight where history and heritage are concerned. The borough dates back to the reign of Alfred the Great, who in about 890 established fortified burhs to withstand Viking incursion. Christchurch was one of them. Although its iconic buildings are its late 11th-century Priory and its 12th-century castle, Christchurch’s history continued into…
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