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Hadow Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 5HS

A contrasting view to Image - the new main entrance, replacing this one, has changed the appearance of the school, as the visitor approaches it, beyond all recognition. The 1930s origins of the school are all the more evident here.

Kings High School, (formerly Kingsleigh Secondary School), on Hadow Road. The road seems also to function as staff car park. http://www.kingshigh.bournemouth.sch.uk/

A bright, modern, snazzy entrance to a secondary school that has recently increased in popularity and in size, including the introduction of a sixth form in 2015. The entrance here belies the 1930s origins of the school - originally Kingsleigh Secondary School - which is more evident if we look at the original main entrance further along its frontage: Image On the opposite side of Hadow Road, directly facing the Academy, is Image

Public open space between Image and Green Lane.

Hadow Road provides education right through from nursery to sixth form, with The Bourne Academy (secondary school) behind us, and Kingsleigh Primary School here, including pre-school. Originally this was Kingsleigh Junior, with Kingsleigh First next to the secondary school, then called Kingsleigh Secondary. The first school site was demolished around the time that it merged with the juniors to form an all-through primary school, in the early 2000s. Kingsleigh Primary has undergone vast expansion in the last few years, increasing its intake to 120 (four classes) as part of the provision of extra school places - thanks to a large birth-rate increase across Bournemouth. Part of the new-build is seen in the left-hand half of the picture. The youth centre, just across Kinson Road a few hundred yards from here, is dated 1911 in the gable and was the original East Howe School, the predecessor of the Kingsleighs.

Kingsleigh Primary School & Nursery, on Hadow Road. See also Image http://www.goldhilleducation.com/calendar/jsp/indexpages/kingsleighindex.jsp?schoolName=Kingsleigh

Public footpath U39 has, in recent years, been marked out as a shared foot/cycle route. We see it here from its western end at the dead end of Hadow Road - it leads to Green Lane and then on to Heather Road. Many of the footpaths on the West Howe estate and thereabouts have been given names in the last couple of years, a safety initiative whose intention is that, in the event of calling for help, one's location can be more easily described. This one has been named Learning Lane, no doubt because it leads to Hadow Road, where the area's primary and secondary schools are located (Image and Image). See Image for the view along this segment of the path from Green Lane, and links to further pictures along the route.

A meadowy area between the dead-ends of Hadow Road (ahead of us) and Green Lane (just behind us: Image)

On Hadow Road, once the site of Kingsleigh Primary School (Leigh Site), before that, Kingsleigh First School. The current primary school is across the road.