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Rossmore have changed little during that time. A few older cottage-style dwellings can still
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The area expanded into other areas such as
Rossmore and later Alderney, which are sometimes considered to be part of Parkstone. Although most houses in the district are owner-occupied, council houses were also built in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. The Trinidad and Bourne Estates are typical examples
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January 1885 we find the earliest indication that a plot of land amounting to 6 acres 2 rods and 35 poles (approximately 25,000 square metres or 2.5 hectares) was to be set aside as a public open space in plans presented to the Council as a result of an invitation to a number of local architects
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Trinidad First School for children aged 4–8 years old who progressed to
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Parkstone, Ashley Cross retains much character from being a village despite commercial buildings moving out from Poole town centre. Commercial Road is the main thoroughfare here, providing another through route - and bus route - from Poole to Bournemouth. The
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Parkstone includes large areas of smaller artisan housing, the shopping district along Ashley Road and the parish church of St. John's, Heatherlands. There are larger properties, however, and the views from this higher part of the suburb across
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be found as reminders of when the area was agricultural, including several pairs of 'Lady
Wimborne' houses: yellow-brick cottages with steep gables built by the Canford Estate, whose lands stretched from
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are quite remarkable. Many photographs taken over the years from the
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redeveloped as housing. Heatherlands was once a full Primary School with an Infant and Junior Section, but was reorganised in the 1980s, closing the Junior section.
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