Produced by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) _Beautiful England_ BOURNEMOUTH POOLE & CHRISTCHURCH _Described by_ SIDNEY HEATH _Painted by_ ERNEST HASLEHUST [Illustration] BLACKIE AND SON LIMITED LONDON GLASGOW AND BOMBAY 1915 * * * * * [Illustration: BRANKSOME CHINE, BOURNEMOUTH One of the most picturesque of the many "chines" or openings in the coast. Branksome Chine was formerly the landing-place of the famous smuggler Gulliver, who amassed a fortune.] * * * * * _Blackie & Son's "Beautiful" Series_ _Price 2s. net per volume, in boards._ Beautiful England OXFORD THE ENGLISH LAKES CANTERBURY SHAKESPEARE-LAND THE THAMES WINDSOR CASTLE CAMBRIDGE NORWICH AND THE BROADS THE HEART OF WESSEX THE PEAK DISTRICT THE CORNISH RIVIERA DICKENS-LAND WINCHESTER THE ISLE OF WIGHT CHESTER YORK THE NEW FOREST HAMPTON COURT EXETER HEREFORD DARTMOOR THE DUKERIES WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON BATH AND WELLS RIPON AND HARROGATE SCARBOROUGH BOURNEMOUTH, POOLE, AND CHRISTCHURCH DOVER AND FOLKESTONE SWANAGE AND NEIGHBOURHOOD HASTINGS AND NEIGHBOURHOOD Beautiful Ireland LEINSTER ULSTER CONNAUGHT MUNSTER Beautiful Switzerland LUCERNE CHAMONIX LAUSANNE VILLARS, CHAMPERY, ETC. * * * * * LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Page Branksome Chine, Bournemouth _Frontispiece_ Bournemouth Pier and Sands from Eastcliff 6 Bournemouth: The Square and Gardens, from Mont Dore 10 The Winter Gardens, Bournemouth 14 In the Upper Gardens, Bournemouth 18 Boscombe Chine 24 Bournemouth: The Children's Corner, Lower Gardens 28 Talbot Woods, Bournemouth 32 Poole Harbour from Constitutional Hill 38 Christchurch Priory from Wick Ferry 46 Priory Ruins, Christchurch 52 Christchurch Mill 60 [Illustration: PRIORY CHURCH. CHRISTCHURCH] BOURNEMOUTH POOLE AND CHRISTCHURCH The scenery which impresses most of us is certainly that in which Nature is seen in her wild and primitive condition, telling us of growth and decay, and of the land's submission to eternal laws unchecked by the hand of man. Yet we also feel a certain pleasure in the contemplation of those scenes which combine natural beauty with human artifice, and attest to the ability with which architectural science has developed Nature's virtues and concealed natural disadvantages.