Holdenhurst Village Conservation Area Appraisal - Bournemouth ...

two particularly fine Beech trees
at the junction of Throop Road and
Holdenhurst Village Road make a
key visual contribution at the heart
of the western residential part of
Holdenhurst. Also within this part of
the Conservation Area the garden of
The Old Vicarage is very well treed
with a substantial number of mature
trees.
7.51 Beyond The Old School on the northern
side of Holdenhurst Village Road there
is a fine quality strip of woodland that
stretches for a considerable distance
in between the western and eastern
residential parts of the village. The
importance of this is also noted in
paragraph 10.12. The trees are mainly
middle-aged specimens that are
densely planted, the species here being
mainly Pendunculate Oak and Scots
Pine.
7.52 Beyond Magdalen Cottage on Sturt Lane
is a small pocket of woodland. Little
has changed for centuries, and this
wood is annotated on old maps and
preserved in the old field name ‘wood’.
7.53 The concentration of Yew trees (both
native and Irish) around the church
adds to the setting of this listed
building and goes some way towards
shielding the noise and visual intrusion
of the A338. The front boundary of
the church has a good quality and well
established native box hedge.
Hedgerows
7.54 The Holdenhurst area contains many
fine and established native, rural
hedgerows. The hedgerows provide
an excellent wildlife habitat due to
their dense nature and form corridors
in which wildlife can travel. The
current retention, maintenance and
improvement of these agricultural land
hedgerows should be encouraged. The
species of trees in these hedgerows
are the native ones, in the main
Blackthorn, Hawthorn, Field Maple,
Hazel and Holly.
Village Green
7.55 The village green with its group of
three large Horse Chestnut trees and
Rowan tree forms a focal point for
the eastern settlement. A sense of
enclosure is created at this point with
the open area framed by the buildings,
boundary hedging and trees. The
buildings around the green add to the
ambience, and this coupled with the
The village green
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Holdenhurst Village Conservation Area Appraisal - March 2014