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Knighton Heath Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH11 9PN

This area of suburban Bournemouth has many houses like these. These ones are close to the junction of High Howe Lane and Meadow View Rd and Knighton Heath Rd.

High Oaks Gardens, a relatively recent development, has had this postbox since shortly after West Howe Post Office closed, just up the road, in March 2004 (see Image).

Parish Boundary Marker by the UC road, in parish of Bournemouth (Bournemouth District), Hull Road (right hand side), in front of No. 2 boundary wall. Opposite Boundary marker: DO_POBO02pb Image Inscription reads:- P|B Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: DO_POBO01pb

Parish Boundary Marker by the UC road, in parish of Bournemouth (Bournemouth District), Hull Road (left hand side), in front of side access to No. 69 High Howe Lane, by wall and drive, South side of road. Opposite Boundary Marker: DO_POBO01pb Image Inscription reads:- B|P Surveyed Milestone Society National ID: DO_POBO02pb

The Bearwood housing estate was built in the 1980s and had no regard for the borough boundary: in some cases the boundary goes right through houses, such as here in Hull Road. The border is not accurately marked on the 1:50,000 map at this point; it does not coincide with High Howe Lane but is parallel to it a little back from the road.

Built on what is a now a service road to the parallel Ringwood Road, the Shoulder of Mutton is one of Bournemouth's oldest pubs, dating from days when West Howe was farm, wood or heathland. Listed in the 2009 Good Beer Guide, the pub feels very much a local. Porch, with to left stone-flagged public bar, and to right T-shaped lounge with beamed ceiling. Cask ales on offer at my visit: Dorset Piddle Santa's Potty, Ringwood Fortyniner. For some customer reviews, see http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/comments.shtml/2889/

This postbox is physically in Poole but postally in Bournemouth. We are actually looking at it across the border from Bournemouth: see Image

Immaculate topiary in Hull Road.

A public footpath 114 metres in length, perfectly straight but for the very minor double bend about two thirds of the way along - see Image

Looking on a drab rainy evening along High Howe Close from its northern end. The first segment, from here till it turns into Littlemoor Avenue, is designated a byway open to all traffic. I don't know why this particular stretch of road should be labelled as such: maybe it was a historical route when this was heathland, and the modern road network incorporated it. It is numbered U12 on Bournemouth Borough Council's list of public rights of way. See Image for a picture of the trees and bungalows a little way down.