The long avenue of beech trees which lines the road beyond Wimborne, towards the ancient hillfort of Badbury Rings, is one of the finest sights in England.
The lock is only accessible by water, for it is cut off from Whitchurch by a backwater and house gardens: even the Thames Path misses the river here, only going through the churchyard.
The town grew up astride what was the most
important road in medieval England, that
between London and Chester, at that time the
principal port for Ireland.
The spectacular beauty of thebeech woods near the village of Cranham, particularly in autumn when the foliage changes colour, has long attracted visitors.
This small hamlet, with its modest houses clustered around a village green, was known as 'the dome of Kent' from a crown of beech trees surmounting its position high up on the sandstone ridge overlooking
The famous avenue of beech trees, planted in 1835, extends over two miles of undulating countryside to form an imposing
approach to the northern entrance to Kingston Lacy Park.
View 49180 looks west from
the junction with Langley Park
Road along Christchurch Park,
with the well-known copper
beech trees newly planted
in the verges.
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