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Castle Lane West, BOURNEMOUTH, BH8 9TR

This is a major new shopping centre on the outskirts of Bournemouth.

This public bridleway runs around the edge of Castlepoint shopping centre and is the diverted route of the original Valley Road, which today would cut right through the shopping complex. We see it here coming out onto Woodbury Avenue at its southern end, darkly in the shadow of the shopping complex. This is photo 27 in a series of 28 views along Valley Road, one of the original routes in this rural part of Bournemouth. It is a public right of way, number K35, with a varied character. The northern part, from Throop Road, is a tarmacked and then gravel lane narrowing to a path onto Yeomans Way, classified as a byway open to all traffic. Its hitherto straight course once continued to the top of Woodbury Avenue near Castle Lane, but it was rerouted when the Hampshire Centre shopping complex was built in the mid-1960s and it now skirts round Castlepoint, the Hampshire Centre's successor, on a modern surface and comes out farther along Woodbury Avenue. This latter half is designated as a public bridleway. See Image for the previous photo in the series, and Image for the next.

Sheltered housing run by trust founded 1935. Land for the scheme was donated; cottages bear plaques stating who paid for them. Residents need to be over 60, live in the area or have relatives nearby, be not working & able to look after themselves. Despite its proximity to busy Castle Lane & Castlepoint, looks like an oasis of well-maintained tranquillity.

This public bridleway runs around the edge of Castlepoint shopping centre and is the diverted route of the original Valley Road, which today would cut right through the shopping complex. This is its southern end, in the evening shadow of the shopping centre and with the outdoor aisles of B&Q visible in the background. This is the last photo in a series of 28 views along Valley Road, one of the original routes in this rural part of Bournemouth. It is a public right of way, number K35, with a varied character. The northern part, from Throop Road, is a tarmacked and then gravel lane narrowing to a path onto Yeomans Way, classified as a byway open to all traffic. Its hitherto straight course once continued to the top of Woodbury Avenue near Castle Lane, but it was rerouted when the Hampshire Centre shopping complex was built in the mid-1960s and it now skirts round Castlepoint, the Hampshire Centre's successor, on a modern surface and comes out farther along Woodbury Avenue. This latter half is designated as a public bridleway. See Image for the previous photo in the series.

This public bridleway runs around the edge of Castlepoint shopping centre and is the diverted route of the original Valley Road, which today would cut right through the shopping complex. We see it here as it emerges onto Woodbury Avenue at its southern end, darkly in the shadow of the shopping complex. This is photo 26 in a series of 28 views along Valley Road, one of the original routes in this rural part of Bournemouth. It is a public right of way, number K35, with a varied character. The northern part, from Throop Road, is a tarmacked and then gravel lane narrowing to a path onto Yeomans Way, classified as a byway open to all traffic. Its hitherto straight course once continued to the top of Woodbury Avenue near Castle Lane, but it was rerouted when the Hampshire Centre shopping complex was built in the mid-1960s and it now skirts round Castlepoint, the Hampshire Centre's successor, on a modern surface and comes out farther along Woodbury Avenue. This latter half is designated as a public bridleway. See Image for the previous photo in the series, and Image for the next.

Look quickly, and you would think they were bungalows, but most have dormers. Note different pitched roofs.

Castlepoint was one of the last out-of-town retail parks to be allowed by the government. Here, the East wing, looking towards the focal point at M&S; the green sign in between is ASDA. Other household names also represented. For further details, see http://www.castlepointshopping.com/