Ensbury Park: Kingswell Road

Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 19 Apr 2020

One of the more major minor roads in this area, if that's not a contradiction, Kingswell Road runs parallel with the main Columbia Road and is therefore relatively busy, feeding local side roads to the more major network. It is about ¾ mile in length and we see it here from its only substantial bend, about 10º or so. The housing is varied but not much of it is as old as the cottage we see on the far left, which was the original farmhouse whose farmland was used for the development of this whole area from the 1930s. The sign is of a design that became prevalent in Bournemouth around 1990 and was in use for most of that decade. Many are starting to look a bit shabby now, with the blue border fading and the white surface peeling, but this one is in pretty good nick. This is photo no.228 of a series of 453 in my coronavirus lockdown walking project: See https://www.geograph.org.uk/article/My-2020-Coronavirus-Lockdown-walking-project for the complete set of photos.

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