Pokesdown
Pokesdown is a suburb of Bournemouth, in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole districts, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. It lies just east of Boscombe and west of Southbourne.Photo: Danny Robinson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England
- Also known as: “Pokesdown, Dorset”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dean Court and Pokesdown railway station.
Dean Court
Stadium
Photo: Matjax87, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dean Court, currently known as Vitality Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Boscombe, a suburb of Bournemouth, Dorset, England, and is the home ground of AFC Bournemouth. The stadium has a capacity of 11,307.
Pokesdown railway station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pokesdown railway station serves the Pokesdown, Boscombe and Southbourne areas of the town of Bournemouth in Dorset, England. It is on the South West Main Line, 106 miles 24 chains down the line from London Waterloo.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Littledown and Boscombe.
Littledown
Suburb
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Littledown is a suburb of Bournemouth, in Dorset, England. Originally it was a small settlement to the south of the much more important Holdenhurst Village, and for centuries it existed as a huddle of farm buildings on the edge of heathland.
Boscombe
Suburb
Photo: Mike Faherty, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Boscombe is a suburb in Bournemouth England. Historically in Hampshire, but today in Dorset, it is located to the east of Bournemouth town centre and west of Southbourne.
Iford
Suburb
Iford is a suburb of Bournemouth, situated in the eastern part of the borough. It is also known as a bridging point over the River Stour, connecting Bournemouth with Christchurch. The parish church of St Saviour's was built in 1935–36.
Pokesdown
- Category: locality
- Location: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.73188° or 50° 43′ 55″ northLongitude
-1.82314° or 1° 49′ 23″ westOpen location code
9C2WP5JG+QPOpenStreetMap ID
node 742420216OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q7208629
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Welsh—“Pokesdown” goes by many names.
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