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Wimborne Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 7AR

A little late-70s or early 80s development. The house number, 1376a, can only belong to Bournemouth's longest road, Wimborne Road. This row of houses is similar to those in Graycot Close itself, although semi-detached rather than detached, so is probably part of the same development. (If the houses are smaller than those they replaced, that might explain the 'a' suffix.) The sign is a modern one, from 2010-15 when this more modern, abstract emblem rather than the traditional town coat of arms as the working logo of the council. The no-through-road sign is incorporated into the nameplate. This is photo no.171 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.

Kinson Grove forms three sides of a largeish rectangle off Wimborne Road, with the resultant two 90º corners at the far end. Here we look along it from the eastern end, with the telephone exchange on the corner. The road sign is a standard one from around 2000-2006, perhaps a little earlier, featuring the borough coat of arms. This is photo no.230 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.

This public footpath heads from Wimborne Road to Howton Road and Leybourne Avenue, and almost immediately crosses the car park access within the Conservative Club grounds. I have a feeling that the Club has only acquired the car park in relatively recent years, as it has a fairly large frontage car park anyway. See Image for the start of the path behind us, and Image for the next picture ahead.

This public footpath, from Leybourne Avenue and Howton Road, arrives at its northern end on the main Wimborne Road. Kinson Grove is opposite. The pedestrian crossing, just to the left of the path's emergence, was installed in the last year or so. It appears that this northern segment of the path has been made a shared foot/cycle path. See Image for the path behind us.

On East Howe Lane just South of the junction with Wimborne Road. The church doesn't seem to have a web presence, but from its name, I presume it's Evangelical.

Looking along this footpath from Wimborne Road to Leybourne Avenue as it crosses the one intervening road, Howton Road. Maps mark the path as running uninterrupted across the road, rather than as two separate paths, as seems to be the norm. Perhaps this indicates that the right of way existed before the road was built. See Image for the next picture ahead, and Image for the next picture behind us.

Nowadays the name Headless Cross is almost completely lost, although the junction is still named as such by the Ordnance Survey on its largest scale maps. It is said to have derived from the original 'T' shape of the junction of East Howe Lane (left) with Wimborne Road, although this is surely a standard junction shape. In everyone's living memory it has been a standard crossroads with The Broadway, which runs off to the right and must have been connected here at least 50 years ago and possibly very much longer. It is a major crossroads on the main Wimborne Road through to Kinson, with East Howe Lane being an important suburban route, though unclassified. The white building on the corner is Northbourne Surgery.