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    Branksome (/ˈbræŋksəm/) is a suburb of Poole, in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole district, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. The area...
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  • Branksome may refer to: Branksome, County Durham, England, a suburb of Darlington Branksome, Dorset, England, a suburb of Poole Branksome Urban District...
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    Branksome Park is a suburb of Poole in Dorset, which adjoins Branksome, Dorset. The area covers approximately 360 acres (1.5 km2), mostly occupied by housing...
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    The Branksome Urban District was an urban district in Dorset, England. It was created in 1894 and absorbed into the municipal borough of Poole in 1905...
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    The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, also known as the S&D, SDJR or S&DJR, was an English railway line connecting Bath (in north-east Somerset) and Bournemouth...
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    Fossilized nuts of Nypa dating to the Eocene occur in the sandbeds of Branksome, Dorset, and in London Clay on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, England. A fossil...
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    Branksome railway station serves the Branksome and Branksome Park areas of Poole in Dorset, England. It is on the South West Main Line, 110 miles 51 chains...
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    a residential and shopping area of Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is located in between Branksome, Poole and the centre of Bournemouth, just off the...
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  • Kay Macpherson (category People from Branksome, Dorset)
    England in 1913. After her father died in 1917, the family moved to Branksome. There, Macpherson's mother remarried in 1920 and the family moved to...
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    Basil Chubb (category People from Branksome, Dorset)
    inventor of Irish political science". Basil Chubb was born in Branksome, Poole, Dorset, the second eldest of five children. The family moved to Ludgershall...
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  • Percy Francis (category People from Branksome, Dorset)
    was born in Badwell Ash, Suffolk; he died at the age of 89 in Branksome, Poole, Dorset. Obituary. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 1965. Percy Francis at ESPNcricinfo...
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  • Centre, Bourton, Bradford Abbas, Bradford Peverell, Bradpole, Branksome, Branksome Park, Branksome Woods, Bridport, Broadmayne, Broadstone, Broadwey, Broadwindsor...
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    Talbot and Branksome Woods is a ward in Dorset. Since 2019, the ward has elected 3 councillors to Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council. The ward...
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  • Lytchett Minster Parkstone, Poole (Poole St James) Later Additions: Branksome (from 1894) Purbeck, see Wareham Ashmore Cann, Compton Abbas East Orchard...
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  • is a list of electoral divisions and wards in the ceremonial county of Dorset in South West England. All changes since the re-organisation of local government...
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    Christchurch, Pokesdown, Bournemouth, Branksome, Parkstone, Poole, Hamworthy and Holton Heath. The Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway to Bath had its southern...
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    northern part of Black Bourton parish. The founder was William Carter of Branksome (Dorset), a speculator who, through his company Homesteads Ltd of London,...
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    ceremonial county of Dorset, England. The 2021 census built-up area had a population of 196,455, making it the largest town in Dorset. Previously an uninhabited...
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    down the main line from Waterloo and is situated between Pokesdown and Branksome. A previous incarnation of Bournemouth East station was on another site...
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    feeds into Branksome Heath Junior School. Bishop Aldhelm's Primary School, Manorside Primary School, Talbot Primary School and Branksome Heath Junior...
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    Bournemouth West (UK Parliament constituency) (category Parliamentary constituencies in Dorset)
    boundary change for the 2010 general election, the constituency gained the Branksome area from Poole whilst losing East Cliff to the neighbouring Bournemouth...
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  • the "Y-Service" in World War II. Robins (nee Gerrish) was born in Branksome, Dorset, on 9 March 1920. She was daughter of Edward Arthur Gerrish (28 April...
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  • an average of 16.16, with a high score of 42 not out. He died at Branksome, Dorset on 2 February 1972. "Minor Counties Championship Matches played by...
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    Bournemouth Traincare Depot (category Rail transport in Dorset)
    situated on a spur off the South West Main Line and is to the east of Branksome station. The depot code is BM. The site was originally the carriage sidings...
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    Thomas Pride (VC) (category Military personnel from Dorset)
    (1835-03-29)29 March 1835 Wool, Dorset Died 16 July 1893(1893-07-16) (aged 58) Branksome, Dorset Buried All Saint's Churchyard, Branksome Park Allegiance  United...
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    Bourne Valley Viaducts (category Railway viaducts in Dorset)
    bridge. Baddeley, Nicole (25 May 2021). "Dorset's impressive railway viaducts". Dorset Echo. "Dorset walk - Branksome Park and Coy Pond". Great British Life...
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    Packe family mausoleum (category Chapels in Dorset)
    Packe family mausoleum is a family mausoleum in Branksome, Poole, Dorset, England. Located in Branksome Chine, the mausoleum was built for the landowner...
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    Penn Hill (category Dorset geography stubs)
    7233; -1.9308 Penn Hill is an electoral ward of Poole in Dorset, England, bordering on Branksome Park, Canford Cliffs, Sandbanks, Lilliput and Parkstone...
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  • landowners. There was no co-ordination of effort, and in the case of the vast Branksome Estate, the promise of development potential had led to a tangled mass...
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    Poole (redirect from Poole, Dorset)
    administrative county of Dorset under the new Dorset County Council. The borough boundaries were enlarged in 1905 to take in Branksome, and again in 1931 to...
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