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Southbourne Coast Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH6 4BQ

A distinctive building on Southbourne Coast Road; the picture in Google Streetview is dated 2012 and the building lacks the rail and screen outside the first floow window

A promenade runs for around 10 miles along the seafront through Bournemouth. This image was taken at Southbourne, near the eastern end of the promenade. The promenade is on the route of National Cycle Network route 2. However, during the peak summer holiday months of July and August, the promenade is closed to cyclists between 10:00 and 18:00. Between these times, cyclists must use an alternative route. In the distance, Hengistbury Head is straight ahead while to the right, the chalk cliffs are at The Needles at the westernmost tip of the Isle of Wight.

A promenade runs for about 10 miles along the seafront through Bournemouth. This image was taken at Southbourne, near the eastern end of the promenade. Here, the promenade is overlooked by beach huts. The promenade is on the route of National Cycle Network route 2. However, during the peak summer holiday months of July and August, the promenade is closed to cyclists between 10:00 and 18:00. Between these times, cyclists must use an alternative route.

This road appears to be like any other hereabouts, but it is designated as a public right of way - Byway Open to All Traffic (or B.O.A.T.) number I08. Large-scale mapping appears to specifically mark the route as this southern pavement, although because of the angle of the junction ahead, it is the northern pavement that extends the farther. In the background, we see the end of the road, blocked off for vehicles, coming out onto Southbourne Coast Road at the junction of Warren Edge Road. See Image for the view up from the end of the road ahead, and Image for the next view on the road behind.

An unusual scene in Bournemouth, after a night and morning of snowfall, with forecasts indicating that freezing temperatures will persist.

This road appears to be like any other hereabouts, but it is designated as a public right of way - Byway Open to All Traffic (or B.O.A.T.) number I08. Large-scale mapping appears to specifically mark the route as the southern pavement, although because of the angle of the junction ahead, it is this northern pavement that extends the farther. We are at the roadside of Warren Edge Road, just where it comes out on Southbourne Coast Road on our right. See Image for the next view on the road ahead, with links to further photos along the route.

Admiralty Road is a public right of way, number I07, designated as a Byway Open to All Traffic (or B.O.A.T.). This previously applied to the whole length of the road, but the road has been truncated now, just here, and the designation of the right of way truncated to a point some way behind us, according to recent mapping. Looking across Ferry Road, we can see a 'road-shaped' wedge of land, heading acutely to the left, with the obvious fence along the right-hand edge and a wire fence doing similar on the left-hand side, just to the right of the lamppost. It is not clear exactly to which properties the land now belongs, if any. See Image for the next view on the road behind, with links to further photos heading back to the part still designated a byway. See Image for a view from the next available part of the defunct course of the road ahead, with links to further photos in that direction. Meanwhile, Ferry Road is also a B.O.A.T. - see Image for the next view along that route.

This road appears to be like any other hereabouts, but it is designated as a public right of way - Byway Open to All Traffic (or B.O.A.T.) number I08. Large-scale mapping appears to specifically mark the route as the southern pavement. Just ahead of us, Admiralty Road turns off to the left and used to also head right as another B.O.A.T. - see Image for relevant discussion and further links. See Image for the next photo on Ferry Road behind us, and Image for the next view ahead.