The History of the Lady Wimborne Road - Original Copy

Revisited:    • Lady Wimborne's Private Road - Revisited  

Documentary about the private road Lady Wimborne had built from Canford Manor to Bournemouth. Filmed as a bike ride from where the road started on the border of Poole and Bournemouth, to the gates of what used to be Canford Manor. Looking back on the history of the road, Canford estate and Lord and Lady Wimborne.

Couple of corrections. I'm going to correct there in an updated version at some point.

1, the Magna Road bridge came down on the 24th/25th January 1987. Many thanks for pointing this out!

2, The rector of Canford Church kindly points out the following:-
"One technical historical point, as Rector of Canford Church, and that is the church was here long before the 14th C. The 'chancel' (the bit between the main body of the church called the nave) and the sanctuary is (east end and altar) is a Saxon chapel, so the church existed some time before 1066 and all that. We think it may have been a wooden Saxon church for perhaps a couple of centuries and may date back to the time of Saint Aldhelm who was a bishop who evangelised Dorset, and planted many churches. We have no 'dedication' at Canford, but there are a number of 'All Saints' churches in the area, and there is a reference in a 13th C document to 'All Saints Cheneford', the old name for Canford"


Research links :-

poolemuseumsociety.wordpress.com/2016/01/29/
luxury-and-charity-lady-cornelia-of-canford


dorsetlife.co.uk/2014/10/ironmaster-to-wildlife-the-canford-estate


travellerstimes.org.uk/features/gypsy-traveller-tales-olde-canford

dorsetlife.co.uk/2019/12/a-bridge-called-77


poolehistory.org.uk/node/327004