[84], An aircraft manufacturing industry was established in the town with the construction of an Airspeed factory at Christchurch Airfield in 1942.
Tourism's contribution to the local economy is about 9% compared to 18% for Weymouth and Portland, 15% for Purbeck and 12% for Bournemouth.
[103], Christchurch holds an annual music festival on the first weekend in July.
[18] In 1845 William Hart opened a similar factory in Bargates. In 1948 the factory became part of de Havilland and manufactured a wide range of aircraft such as the Vampire, Sea Venom and Sea Vixen. ", "Sectoral Change in the Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Sub-regional Economy", "Foodie heaven – The 10th Christchurch Food and Wine Festival", "Stompin on the Quomps – Christchurch waterside jazz festival", "Listed buildings online: Waterloo Bridge", "Listed buildings online: Place Mill Bridge", "Listed Buildings Online: Highcliffe Castle", "Air Passengers by Type and Nat of Operator 2009", "Town factsheets and profiles: Christchurch", "Achievement and attainment tables 2009: KS4 results", Department for Children, Schools and Families, "Achievement and attainment tables 2009: GCE and equivalent results", "Jamie and Louise Redknapp visits his old school", Official Christchurch Council Tourism website, Christchurch (UK Parliament constituency), Christchurch and Lymington (UK Parliament constituency), Former non-metropolitan districts of England, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christchurch,_Dorset&oldid=981840044, Populated places established in the 7th century, Short description is different from Wikidata, Pages using infobox settlement with possible area code list, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz area identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 4 October 2020, at 18:27. The secondary schools share a sixth form with the three sites providing different courses. [157], Christchurch has two infant schools, two junior schools, five primary schools (combined infant and junior) and three secondary schools.
[140], Christchurch has a council run leisure centre situated at the end of Stony Lane South. It was the smallest of Dorset County Council's six districts and one of the smallest boroughs in England by population. Main menu. The eastern portion crosses the narrower of two branches of the River Avon that pass through the town and features five low round-headed arches. The town has a museum: the Red House Museum in Quay Road. C/O PERSEUS PROPERTY CO LTD 128-130 OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD BH1 1NL BOURNEMOUTH … [4] The harbour became one of the most important in Saxon England as it was easily reached from the continent and boats could travel up the river Avon to Salisbury. There are 120 active postcodes in Christchurch, Find related information on each postcode by navigating through it's link. The club joined the Wessex League (the ninth tier of the English football league system) in 1988 and are one of the few clubs in the league that maintain amateur status. A castle has stood in Christchurch since approximately 924 AD when Edward the Elder fortified the town with a wooden fort on a motte.
[138] Established in 1885 the club was a founding member of the Hampshire Football Association in 1887. To the north of the town the A35 connects to the A31, the major trunk road in central southern England which provides access to the M27 motorway at Southampton. [78] Of those in employment, over 40% of the borough's residents have a high skill level occupation and 17% have a low level one. [52] The entrance, known as the Run, has Mudeford Quay on one side and the spit on the other.
[13][41] The district was formed by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Christchurch with part of Ringwood and Fordingbridge Rural District in 1974, and was part of the non-metropolitan county of Dorset. [112] The Grade II listed Mayor's Parlour was built as the market hall in 1745 at the far end of the High Street but was moved to its present position in 1849.
[87] In the 1950s, Bournemouth Airport, a former RAF base situated on the outskirts of borough boundaries at Hurn, also became heavily involved in aircraft production after Vickers Armstrong—which later became the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC)—established a factory at the airport. [58] This hill is the most southerly of a chain of three hills, some 3 miles (4.8 km) long with 35-hectare (86-acre) area of heathland and coniferous forest. Christchurch F.C. The town covers an area of 19.5 square miles (51 km 2) and had a population of 48,368 in 2013. [46][47] Christchurch was part of the South West England constituency for elections to the European Parliament. [167], Sir Donald Bailey, a civil engineer, developed the Bailey bridge while he worked in Christchurch during the Second World War. [82] Christchurch, in common with the rest of Dorset, has lower crime rates than average for the UK. Together they provide direct routes from Christchurch to: Alderney, Beaulieu, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Burley, Burton, Highcliffe, Lymington, Milford on Sea, Mudeford, New Milton, Parkstone, Poole, Ringwood, and Westbourne. Once the home of Sir Owen Tudor Burne, it was saved from demolition in 1929 by public appeal. [83], Between 2000 and 2007 the total Gross Value Added (GVA) of the borough grew by 37% from £552 million to £757 million. In 1940, with the German 6th Army at Cherbourg, Christchurch was fortified against an expected invasion:[27] the construction of pillboxes, gun emplacements and tank traps in and around the town, made Christchurch an "anti-tank island". [25] In 1934, they obtained permission to establish an aerodrome on the site which became known as Christchurch Airfield. [55] It contains areas of salt marsh and freshwater marsh with reed beds and is home to grazing horses, rare birds, and 14 species of rare or endangered plants. [139], Hurn Bridge is also the home of Christchurch Cricket Club who have teams in the Saturday and Sunday Dorset Leagues. This is no longer open to the public, although the company is working on new ways to share the museum's collection more widely across the UK. However, upon completion the new entrance repeatedly silted up and in 1703 a large storm damaged a groyne which blocked the entrance entirely. [152], During the summer months small passenger ferries travel between Tuckton and Mudeford Spit via the town quay. This ferry was running before the bridge was built in 1882 and was then, the only crossing below Iford. Click here to view demographic information about BH23 as a whole. Once a monastery, it was given to the town for use as a parish church by Henry VIII after the dissolution in 1540.
Although important to the local economy with spending generating over £53,000,000 GVA, Christchurch is not so heavily dependent on tourism as some of its neighbours. It had some large rural areas including Bournemouth International Airport and the parishes of Burton and Hurn. Christchurch falls within the area of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP), a unitary authority created in April 2019. [114], High Street contains two Grade II listed public houses: Ye Olde George Inne, once a coach house,[113] and the Ship Inn which has the oldest licence in Christchurch. Part of the historic county of Hampshire, Christchurch was a borough within the administrative county of Dorset from 1974 until 2019, when it became part of the new Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority. [94] Other major employers in Christchurch include: BAE Systems, Bournemouth Aviation Services Company (BASCO), Beagle Aerospace, Bournemouth International Airport Ltd, Channel Express, College of Air Traffic Control, Data Track Process Instruments, European Aviation, FR Aviation, Honeywell, Reid Steel, Revvo Castor Company, Sainsbury's, Siemens VAI and SELEX Communications. In the UK as a whole, the average figures are approximately as follows for relationship statuses: 34% single, 47% married, 3% separated, 9% divorced, 7% widowed, and 0.2% same sex. Many other writers and poets of the day visited him there including his brother in law, poet Samuel Coleridge, and the Scottish novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott.
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