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Ringwood Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH11 9JZ

Wimborne Road, which starts a good few miles southwest in the town centre, approaches its end at Bear Cross Roundabout. Set back from the main carriageway via a parallel service road, the last row of bungalows ends with these two, numbers 1821 and 1823. On the other side, the even numbers reach only 1716.

This filling station, incorporating a grocery store and open 24 hours a day, will have had probably its poorest day's trade today - not because the pumps are dry but because the road is wet. The River Stour at Longham Bridge, half a mile or so behind us, burst its banks midmorning and the A348 had been close all day, from Bear Cross Roundabout just ahead of us.

The sign asks walkers to keep to the track, whose course is eminently visible here but it is impassable thanks to the flooding of the River Stour. Heavy rain over the weekend has caused havoc across parts of Dorset and this Bournemouth area was spared the most severe damage.

Another look (see Image) along the discernible but impassable course of the Stour Valley Way as it skirts around the northern edge of Bearwood.

This public footpath forms part of the Stour Valley Way and is seen here leaving Ringwood Road. It is just over 350m in length and terminates at the borough boundary, where it becomes footpath 112 under Poole Borough Council. See Image for the next view along the path.

This public footpath is one of the few truly rural rights of way in the borough of Bournemouth, and forms part of the Stour Valley Way. On leaving Ringwood Road, we almost immediately pass through two gates before proceeding along the track. It is just over 350m in length and terminates at the borough boundary, where it becomes footpath 112 under Poole Borough Council. See Image for the view towards us from along the path ahead, and Image for the next view onto the path from behind us.

This public footpath is one of the few truly rural rights of way in the borough of Bournemouth, and forms part of the Stour Valley Way. This is the reverse view to Image The path is just over 350m in length and terminates at the borough boundary, where it becomes footpath 112 under Poole Borough Council. See Image for the next view along the path behind us.

Just inside Bournemouth, this section of the Way is a permissive path, part of the 64 mile path from Christchurch in Dorset to Stour Head in Wiltshire.

This public footpath is one of the few truly rural rights of way in the borough of Bournemouth, and forms part of the Stour Valley Way. We see it here on the long straight heading for Ringwood Road. The path is just over 350m in length and terminates at the borough boundary, where it becomes footpath 112 under Poole Borough Council. See Image for the next view along the path ahead, and Image for the next view behind us.

On Wimborne Road, Bear Cross.