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Hillcrest Road, BOURNEMOUTH, BH9 3HX

Houses in front of one of the many signs which let us know we're on Wimborne Road.

A road junction off Linden Road with Wimborne Road.

The first segment of Hillcrest Road, to our left, forms quite an important back road whose mainline continues downhill to our right as Priory View Road. The offshoot ahead of us, as its name suggests continuing on the crest of the hill rather than heading down it, is a dead end. The road sign is a standard one from around 2000-2006, perhaps a little earlier, featuring the borough coat of arms. The no-through-road sign incorporated into the sign would in days gone by be situated on the left, towards the dead end - but nowadays it is just a standard design with the sign on the right regardless of the direction intended by its meaning. This is photo no.199 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.

A road leading downhill towards Valette Road.

A short road which originally cut the corner between the major roads Wimborne Road and Castle Lane West, although the latter end has been closed to traffic since at least the early 1980s. It has a few houses on each side but this view is dominated by a tall fence for the flat above a former hairdresser's in the corner building. The sign is the standard Bournemouth nameplate from the 1980s, more often seen close to ground level, affixed with tubular steel which protrudes at each side, but here attached high on a lamppost. This is photo no.236 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.

Welcome to Moordown, with Mike Stokes motorcycle shop on the left.

Maybe that is Mike Stokes standing in his own garage - I guess we'll never know.

This church stands at the top of Priory View Road (which descends to the left of the picture and from here does indeed offer fine views across to Christchurch). It has lain unused for several years.

Used car dealership on Wimborne Road.

A small cul-de-sac of houses off Hillcrest Road - both are, indeed, at the crest of the hill; it goes steeply downhill on Priory View Road just to our left here. The sign is the standard Bournemouth nameplate from the 1980s, affixed with tubular steel which protrudes at each side. Unusually, there is no no-through-road sign either alongside or incorporated in the nameplate itself. This is photo no.198 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.