BOURNEMOUTH

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BOURNEMOUTH , a municipal and county borough and watering-place of

Hampshire

HAMPSHIRE (or COUNTY OF SOUTHAMPTON, abbreviated HANTS)

, England, in the parliamentary borough of Christchurch, Io7z m. S.W. by W. from London by the London &

South

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

-Western railway. Pop. (1901) 59,762. It is beautifully situated on Poole Bay. Considerable

sandstone

SANDSTONE

cliffs rise from the sandy

beach

BEACH

, and are scored with deep picturesque dells or chines. The town itself lies in and about the valley of the Bourne stream. Its sheltered situation and desirable winter climate began to attract notice about 184o; in 1855 a national sanatorium for consumptive patients was erected by subscription; a pier was opened in 1861, and in 187o railway communication was afforded. The climate is remarkably equable, being relatively warm in winter and cool in summer; the

average

AVERAGE

temperature in July is 61.7 F., and in January 403. The town contains numerous handsome buildings, including municipal buildings, churches, various places of entertainment, sanatoria and hospitals, a public library and a science and art school. Its suburbs have greatly extended along the sea front, and the beautiful chines of Boscombe, Alum and Branksome have attracted a large number of wealthy residents. There are piers at the town itself and at Boscombe, and the bathing is excellent. The parks, gardens and drives are extensive and pleasant. A service of electric tramways is maintained, notable as being the first

system

SYSTEM

installed in England with ascombination of the trolley and conduit principles of supplying current. There are golf links in Meyrick and Queen's parks, both laid out by the

corporation

CORPORATION (from Lat. corporare, to form into a
body
- BODY
, corpus, corporis)

, which has in other ways studied the entertainment of visitors. The two railway stations are the Central and West, and through communications with the north are maintained by the Somerset & Dorset and Midland, and the

Great

GREAT

Western and

Great

GREAT

Central railways. The town, which is of wholly modern and remarkably rapid growth (for in the middle of the 19th century the

population

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

was less than r000), was incorporated in 1890, and became a county borough in 1900. The

corporation

CORPORATION (from Lat. corporare, to form into a
body
- BODY
, corpus, corporis)

consists of a mayor, 11 aldermen and 33 councillors. Area, 5769 acres. _

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