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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hamworthy like this:
HAMWORTHY, a village and a parish in Poole district, Dorset. The village stands on Holes bay, adjacent to Poole r. station, 1¼ mile W by N of Poole; and was the place where Charles X. of France landed, after his abdication, in 1831. The parish comprises 1, 031 acres of land and 880 of water; and is all included in Poole borough. ...
Post town, Poole. Real property, £1, 855. Pop., 393. Houses, 78. The property all belongs to Sir Ivor B. Guest. The living is a Vicarage, under the vicarage of Sturminster-Marshall, in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, not reported. Patron, Eton College. The ancient church was destroyed in the civil war of Charles I.; and the present one was built in 1826, and has a tower. There are an Independent chapel and a national school.
Hamworthy is now part of BOURNEMOUTH CHRISTCHURCH AND POOLE Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how BOURNEMOUTH CHRISTCHURCH AND POOLE has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Hamworthy itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Hamworthy, in Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole and Dorset | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/20938
Date accessed: 09th April 2026
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