Stanpit Recreation Ground
Stanpit Recreation Ground is a park in Christchurch, England. Stanpit Recreation Ground is situated nearby to the tourism office Visitor Centre Stanpit Marsh Local Nature Reserve, as well as near the ruins Tuttons Well.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Stocks and Christchurch Castle.
Stocks
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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 3,600 feet west of Stanpit Recreation Ground.
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 3,500 feet west of Stanpit Recreation Ground.
St John’s Church, Purewell
Church
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St John's Church is a Church of England mission church in Purewell, Dorset, England. It was built in 1880–81. St John’s Church, Purewell is situated 1,900 feet north of Stanpit Recreation Ground.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stanpit and Mudeford.
Stanpit
Suburb
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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.
Mudeford
Suburb
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Mudeford is a harbourside and beachside parish based on a former fishing village in the east of Christchurch, Dorset, England, fronting water on two sides: Christchurch Harbour and the sands of Avon Beach.
Wick
Village
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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 Recreation Ground
- Type: Park
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Christchurch, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
50.73052° or 50° 43′ 50″ northLongitude
-1.76039° or 1° 45′ 37″ westOpen location code
9C2WP6JQ+6ROpenStreetMap ID
way 220073636OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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