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5 Historic Development and Archaeology Origins and Historic Development 5.1 Historically much of the land between Poole and Christchurch was covered by a heathland of gorse, ferns and heather. It was also dotted with remains of the area’s rich prehistoric past, but uninhabited apart from the occasional village or hamlet such as Holdenhurst, Throop, Kinson and Iford along the fertile valley of the River Stour. 5.2 It is the location of Holdenhurst, on the edge of the flood plain of the Stour, close to a crossing point, and bounded by heath to the west, that made it an ideal spot for early settlers. The large number of archaeological finds in the Bournemouth area, suggest that Holdenhurst was occupied from the prehistoric era onwards. 5.3 It is also likely that the Romans settled or passed by the area as Roman coins have been found in Holdenhurst. A hoard was found buried in a vessel in 1911. 5.4 At the time of the Domesday survey (1086) Holdenhurst was known as ‘Holeest’ meaning ‘holly copse’. The survey reveals that Holdenhurst had a chapel, a mill, 181 acres of meadow and three fisheries supplying a substantial hall. The number of fisheries and the extent of the meadows was large and, prior to the building of the Priory in Christchurch (then Twynham) in 1094, Holdenhurst would have been more important than the neighbouring Saxon Port of Twynham. The decline of Holdenhurst from its importance in the Domesday period is reflected in a lack of later expansion of the village. 5.5 The administrative history of Holdenhurst is complicated as it moves in and out of crown ownership, and that of the Manor of Christchurch (of which Holdenhurst became a part). It passed regularly between absentee landlords who paid it little attention and consequently Holdenhurst developed slowly as a nucleated settlement according to the needs of the tenant farmers. 5.6 Historically the Holdenhurst area was a part of the ‘Liberty of Westover’ (possibly derived from being ‘west of the Stour’), as the 1791 map in Figure 4 demonstrates. The Liberty of Westover was divided into six tythings: Muscliff, Muccleshell, Throop, Iford, Tuckton and Wick and Holdenhurst. Holdenhurst tything covered a much larger area than the village as we know it today. 5.7 The village would have been principally centred around the junction of the former Holdenhurst Road and the present Church Lane, this open space later became the village green. From Church Lane the track led past the Saxon chapel to connect with Ferry Lane which in turn led to the ropedrawn Blackwater Ferry across the River Stour. The ferry accessed the main routes to the local market towns of Christchurch and Ringwood, and the road to London. The location of Blackwater to the north of Holdenhurst can be seen in Figure 4. 5.8 A village green in Holdenhurst is evidenced by the map in Figure 4, however, its present elongated shape is likely to be a more recent form as it is shown on later maps (see Figures 6 and 7) with pathways across it. A number of cottages were built facing this space or in close proximity to it. The oldest surviving building in this location is the timber framed sixteenth century Magdalen Cottage No. 1 Holdenhurst Village, behind No. 17 12 Holdenhurst Village Conservation Area Appraisal - March 2014
Figure 4 - Milne’s Map of Hampshire 1791 Holdenhurst Village. Of the surviving early dwellings around the village green, No. 17 and The New House (No. 16 Holdenhurst Village) of the 1600s stand prominently to the north of the green and the thatched cottage Holly Hurst, No. 20 Holdenhurst Village of the 1800s stands to the west of the green. 5.9 Many of the villagers of Holdenhurst would have been farming on a small scale. The layout of homesteads around the green can be seen in the tithe map of 1841, shown in Figure 5. At this time a picture emerges of a fairly small community of yeoman farmers, husbandmen and cottars. 5.10 The map of 1841 (Figure 5) also illustrates a more isolated homestead in an area known as Townsend, to the south-west of the village green. This should not be confused with the 1990s housing estate of the same name. The map reveals a cluster of buildings at this point at the convergence of three roads (where Holdenhurst Village Road meets Riverside Avenue). The buildings include a homestead, of which a sixteenth century cob barn survives today (Barn to former Townsend Cottages). Townsend was also the site of Holdenhurst’s Poorhouse, however this was demolished approximately 100 years ago. Holdenhurst Village Conservation Area Appraisal - March 2014 13
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