Red House Museum and Gardens
The Red House Museum and Gardens is a museum of local history located in Christchurch, Dorset. The red-brick Georgian building was constructed in 1764 as the parish workhouse.Photo: Ykraps, Public domain.
- Opening hours:
Wednesday—Saturday: 10:00 AM—4:00 PM
Sunday: noon—4:00 PM - Email: paul.willis.marshall@hants.gov.uk
- Type: Museum
- Description: Museum in Christchurch, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Red House Museum” and “Red House Museum and Gardens, Christchurch”
- Address: Quay Road, Christchurch, BH23 1BU
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Stocks and Christchurch Castle.
Stocks
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Stocks are a feet restraining device that were used as a form of corporal punishment and public humiliation. The use of stocks is seen as early as Ancient Greece, where they are described as being in use in Solon's law code. Stocks is situated 580 feet northeast of Red House Museum and Gardens.
Christchurch Castle
Christchurch Castle is a Norman motte and bailey castle in Christchurch, Dorset, England. The earliest stonework has been dated to 1160. The castle's site is inside the old Saxon burh dominating the River Avon's lowest crossing. Christchurch Castle is situated 440 feet northeast of Red House Museum and Gardens.
Christchurch Priory
Church
Photo: Bellminsterboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Christchurch Priory is an ecclesiastical parish and former priory church in Christchurch in the English county of Dorset. It is one of the longest parish churches in the country and is as large as many of the Church of England Cathedrals. Christchurch Priory is situated 490 feet east of Red House Museum and Gardens.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Wick and Stanpit.
Wick
Village
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wick is a village on the south bank of the River Stour in Dorset, England, just short of the Stour's entry into Christchurch Harbour. Along with the nearby village of Tuckton, it originally formed a tithing in the Hundred of Christchurch, before becoming part of the Civil Parish of Southbourne in 1894.
Stanpit
Suburb
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stanpit is a neighbourhood of Christchurch in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. Stanpit is within Mudeford parish, and is situated on the shore of Christchurch Harbour, 1 mile east of Christchurch town centre.
Southbourne
Suburb
Southbourne is a suburb of Bournemouth, in the unitary authority area of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England.
Red House Museum and Gardens
- Categories: local museum, local authority museum, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Christchurch, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.73247° or 50° 43′ 57″ northLongitude
-1.77624° or 1° 46′ 35″ westOpen location code
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tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q17537828
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