Northbourne: Gulliver?s Trail passes through Puck?s Dell
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Northbourne: Gulliver?s Trail passes through Puck?s Dell
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 4 Mar 2012
Looking along the central path of Image, a small open space hidden among the housing of suburban north Bournemouth. The waymarks of Gulliver's Trail are a recent instalment and, while I don't know an awful lot about it or exactly where it runs, it is connected with the smuggling ways prevalent in this area before Bournemouth existed and when the suburbs around here, such as Winton and Kinson, were separate small villages. Gulliver is perhaps the best known smuggler's name because of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, and the path roughly leads to Kinson parish church, an important location for the storage of contraband in those bygone smuggling days. At the beginning of last month, the route was officially launched so I will get hold of the leaflet and provide more information when I have it!
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