Historic map of Binghams Melcombe
Illustrated Victorian map of Dorset
Historic Map of any Binghams Melcombe postcode
You are here: Explore your past > Binghams Melcombe
Binghams Melcombe, Dorset
Binghams Melcombe maps
Historic maps of Binghams Melcombe and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Binghams Melcombe maps
Binghams Melcombe photos
We have no photos of Binghams Melcombe, although we do have photos of these nearby places: Melcombe Bingham, Hilton, Milton Abbas, Milborne St Andrew, Ibberton, Winterborne Stickland, White Lackington, Piddletrenthide, Hazelbury BryanBinghams Melcombe books
Displaying 2 of 4 books about Binghams Melcombe and the local area. View all Binghams Melcombe books
Dorset Pocket Album
Paperback
rrp £4.99
£1.50
Dorset Living Memories
Paperback
rrp £9.99
£3
Wimborne Photographic Memories
Paperback
rrp £11.99
£3.60
You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Binghams Melcombe
No memories of Binghams Melcombe have been shared yet - be the first!
Add your memory of Binghams Melcombe
or of a photo of Binghams Melcombe.
Dorset memories
My mother Patricia Bingham visited Bingham's Melcombe probably in the 1950's and told me, her daughter, that the house was derelict and the hall was being used as a hayshed! I do hope to vist the place at some time next year, and wonder who owns it now and if possible to get in touch with the present owner. Look forward to hearing from someone sometime. Hilary Bingham White.
Shared on 09 January 2007
For many generations the DRAKE family lived in the Hilton area. My gg grandfather was George DRAKE a Woodman. His son, Charles left the village and worked as a domestic coachman in the London area. My grandfather Ben, Charles' son, had three maiden cousins living in Hilton during WW2. My Uncle Kenneth had stayed with them in August 1944. During the war Fanny was the local bus driver, Julia the postmistress and Minnie a teacher. During a holiday in Dorset in 1968 my uncle had visited them again to show his sons where he had stayed. Fortunately he took a photo of Minnie and Fanny. Julia had died 1961 and was interned in Hilton Church burial ground. The other sisters died in the 1970s and are buried near their sister.
Shared on 01 January 2008
Extracts From Binghams Melcombe & Dorset books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Binghams Melcombe, inspired by Frith photos.
Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories
Canford House is Poole’s manor house, which dates from 1450. In the early 19th century this was the home of William Ponsonby, brother of Byron’s lover Lady Caroline Lamb. Ponsonby’s wife, Lady Barbara, was the sister of the reformer Lord Shaftesbury. In 1846 Sir John Guest, of Guest Keen & Nettlefold, the iron and steel magnate, bought Canford and employed Charles Barry, whose Palace of Westminster was still being built, to enlarge the house. Guest was so extravagant that he became known as ‘paying Guest’. His son Ivor, who in 1880 was made Lord Wimborne, welcomed many visitors, including the Prince of Wales (Edward VII), Lady Wimborne’s nephew Winston Churchill, and the poet Rupert Brooke. The house became Canford School in 1922.
This is an extract from Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories
Here we see the south side of Wimborne’s square at a time when the bank was called the Midland. This, with the nearby Minster, was the heart of the town. Sir John Guest’s son Ivor took his title - Lord Wimborne - from the name of the town when he was elevated to the peerage in 1880.
This is an extract from Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories
Here we see the south side of Wimborne’s square at a time when the bank was called the Midland. This, with the nearby Minster, was the heart of the town. Sir John Guest’s son Ivor took his title - Lord Wimborne - from the name of the town when he was elevated to the peerage in 1880.
This is an extract from Poole and Sandbanks Photographic Memories.
Read more and see photos from this book.
Read more and see photos from this book.
