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Keeble Crescent, BOURNEMOUTH, BH10 7HY

Keeble Crescent is a curious name: It is indeed a crescent-shaped road off Keeble Road, but according to some maps only the offshoots leading to the houses are named Keeble Crescent, the actual crescent being part of Keeble Road. The estate dates from the later 1980s on the site of a sports ground or similar. This is photo no.218 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.

Looking west along Kinson Park Road past this George V-reign postbox.

The A347 New Road between West Parley and Red Hill at Ensbury.

Looking north along Cedar Avenue from its only access road, Austen Avenue – it comes to a dead end both behind us and ahead. Its bungalows are typical of this northern part of Northbourne and Kinson. Cedar Avenue is one of three roads out of the 451 I visited in my project not to have a nameplate. Google Street View suggests that it has been without one for at least 10 years. However, it does get an honourable mention at the other end of Avebury Avenue: Image This is photo no.65 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.

The first house of Keeble Close is pictured here, along with the main carriageway of Keeble Road. The little housing estate here was built in the later 1980s and is mainly, possibly all, social housing. Keeble Close is signposted rather unusually, with the sign opposite rather than on its own corner, and of an unusual square design. This is photo no.218 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.

The sign stands on a triangle between the 45º-angle pavement turning into the road, and the main pavement of New Road on which we stand. Well-to-do bungalows are the order of the day here; the road turns 90º to the left ahead, to run parallel with the River Stour, and the gardens of the bungalows along the back edge run right down to the riverbank. 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.173 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.

The junction of Kinson Park Road with The Broadway.

Looking across the rooftops of Kinson/Northbourne as a rainbow reaches Earth roughly at the playpark in Keeble Road, a modern housing estate on a previously vacant plot. The electricity pylon in the background stands in the middle of a field at about SZ 0764 9720, larger-scale Ordnance Survey maps show the line running a few hundred yards to the north, so presumably it has been realigned in recent years.

Looking along this very short road, not an avenue in the usual sense of being tree lined, which leads only to Cedar Avenue which has a dead end at both ends. This, its only sign, is of a design that became prevalent in Bournemouth around 1990 and was in use for most of that decade. Supplementary information, such as house numbers or 'leading to' as seen here, are shown in the different font from the road name. Many of these are starting to look a bit shabby now and while the white has deteriorated here, the blue is still ok. This is photo no.21 of a series of 451 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.