WEST PARLEY PARISH OFFICIAL GUIDE FROM 2017
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WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
WELCOME TO OUR FIRST OFFICIAL Spring, covered in daffodils and crowned with cherry trees, GUIDE WHICH WE HOPE WILL BE A these can look quite charming. West Parley was once a USEFUL SOURCE OF INFORMATION small village surrounded by countryside. In the last 60 or so TO NEW AND ESTABLISHED years Ferndown has expanded RESIDENTS OF WEST PARLEY to our north, and Bournemouth has grown right up to the banks of the river Stour. West Parley is a parish in 65 or over. Only 10% are aged Parish Council information its own right. It has a parish 15 or below. boards are on the toilet block at council, two churches, a West Parley’s houses are Parley Cross and the shopping village hall, a first school, two almost all 20th century, many parade on Glenmoor Road. shopping parades, a surgery, a of them post 1950 garden The Parish Council’s sports club and sports fields, a bungalows, all detached. In the Community Noticeboards are playground and four pubs. centre, and on the eastern edge outside Parley First School At the 2011 census the bordering the golf club, are on Glenmoor Road, on the population of West Parley larger detached houses, some corner of the shopping parade was 3522. On the most recent of them substantial. at Parley Cross, on the wall electoral register there are A feature of the village is adjacent to the Parish Council’s 1562 residences. 93.3% of the the multiplicity of trees and Car Park on Christchurch Road houses are owner occupied. the handsome grass verges and there is a small one in the 37% of the population is aged to most of the roads. In the bus stop at Parley Cross. West Parley Official Guide| 1 CONTENTS Page No.
Welcome & Introduction 1 Parish Council 4 Local Government 4 General Information 8 Travel 10 Health & Welfare 12 Churches 16 Education 18 Clubs & Societies 20 Sports & Leisure 24 Youth Activities 28 Village History 30
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MS Centre
LOCAL GOVERNMENT Vice-Chairman: WEST PARLEY Diana Penwill PARISH COUNCIL Lead Areas: Recreation Ground. West Parley Parish Council, is the elected body of Email: [email protected] the parish and consists of eleven members (with frequent vacancies) representing the Civil Parish. The Council employ a Parish Clerk. They meet 11 Barbara Manuel times a year at The MS Centre, Church Lane, West Parley on the third Wednesday of the month (no Lead Areas: Housing meeting held in August) at 7.30pm. Tel: 01202 891197 Email: [email protected] Parish Clerk: Linda Leeding Kay Bundy Tel: 07979 853697 Lead Areas: Community Email: [email protected] Participation Post: Upmeads 28 Glenmoor Road, Tel: 07887 351510 West Parley, Ferndown, Dorset BH22 8QF Email: [email protected] Chairman: John Dinsdale Jonathan Heath Lead Areas: Appearance Lead Areas: Youth, Sports Tel: 01202 872974 Tel: 01202 980127 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
4 | West Parley Official Guide David Allen Lead Areas: Communication. Tel: 01202 871122 Email: [email protected]
Mary Court West Parley Recreation Ground Lead Areas: Planning, Rights of Way Liaison Email: [email protected] PLANNING AND CONSULTATIVE Phillip Bamborough Lead Areas: COMMITTEE Consists of an elected panel of Parish Email: councillors. Planning applications are discussed [email protected] at the monthly Parish Council meetings which are held on the third Wednesday of the month at the MS Centre, Church Lane, with the Lyn Wilson exception of August when no meeting is held. Any planning applications requiring a decision Lead Areas: between these meetings, will be discussed at Tel: 07775 522368 Planning Committee meetings which take place Email: [email protected] on the first Wednesday of the month also at the MS Centre, Church Lane.
West Parley Official Guide| 5 EAST DORSET DISTRICT COUNCIL DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL Since January 2011 East Dorset District Council The County Council provides services for the has worked in partnership with Christchurch residents of Dorset. Areas of responsibilities include Borough Council. education, support for children and families, The partnership was created to help the two libraries, road and transport, adult social care, councils provide their services more efficiently rights of way, waste disposal and trading standards and keep costs down whilst at the same time as well as many more. maintaining or improving the quality of the services For more information about the services provided, they deliver. Further collaborations are expected to report a road problem or to apply for a school The two councils, along with the North Dorset place, visit www.dorsetforyou.com You can also district Council and Borough of Poole, are also part use this website to pay for county Council services, of a joint revenues and benefits service, known as view job vacancies and book an appointment to the Stour Valley & Poole Partnership. register a birth. The telephone number for general The Council is also part of the county-wide Dorset enquiries is 01305 221000 Waste Partnership. Although East Dorset District Council works in Your County Councillor is: partnership with other councils on a number of Steve Lugg ventures, it has retained its individual sovereignty c/o Council Offices, Furzehill, and East Dorset councillors make decisions Wimborne, Dorset, BH21 4HN affecting the District. The Council is responsible Tel: 01202 872066 for a variety of local services and administrative Email: [email protected] matters. Details of each service can be found on the website www.dorsetforyou.com contact details MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT for some of the services are below. West Parley currently falls within the East Dorset Constituency. Your East Dorset Councillors are: Barbara Manuel Your local MP is: 57 Pinewood Rd, Ferndown, Mr Chris Chope MP Dorset BH22 9RP Parliamentary: House of Commons, Tel / Fax: 01202 891197 London, SW1A 0AA Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 7219 5808, Fax: 020 7219 6938 Constituency: 18a Bargates, Andrew Parry Christchurch, BH23 1LQ 33 Albert Road, Ferndown, Email: [email protected] Dorset, BH22 9HJ Tel: 01202 474949, Fax: 01202 475548 Tel: 07582 775766 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Your MP holds surgeries throughout the constituency. Appointments for a meeting can be made through: Mrs Jamieson MBE, 18a Bargates, Christchurch on 01202 474949
Main switchboard Local planning and Public health issues www.dorsetforyou.com development management www.dorsetforyou.com/ 01202 886210 www.dorsetforyou.com/ environmental-health planning/east-dorset 01202 795185 Online payments 01202 795031 www.dorsetforyou.com/ Electoral registration payments Building control www.dorsetforyou.com/ www.dorsetforyou.com/ register-to-vote Refuse collection, recycling buildingcontrol/east 01202 795078 and garden waste (as part of 01202 795031 Dorset Waste Partnership) Licensing www.dorsetforyou.com/ Benefits and council tax www.dorsetforyou.com then recycling-rubbish-and-waste www.dorsetforyou.com/benefits search for type of licence 01305 221040 0845 034 4569 01202 795352
6 | West Parley Official Guide West Parley Official Guide| 7 GENERAL INFORMATION BOURNEMOUTH FIRE AND RESCUE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (DORSET AND WILTSHIRE) This excellent facility is just under 3 miles from The nearest station is in Ferndown, just under 2 Parley Crossroads, less than 10 minutes drive, miles from Parley Cross. It is crewed on weekdays traffic permitting. by full time firefighters working 8am to 6.30pm and Tel: 01202 364000 by on-call firefighters at night and at weekends. www.bournemouthairport.com POLICE CITIZENS ADVICE BUREAU Emergency: If life is in danger or a Main offices are Wimborne and Ferndown. crime is in progress - dial 999 Please telephone the Dorset Advice Line number in the first instance, between 9.30am and 4pm on For non-emergencies use 101 0344 245 1291 Main local contact: 01202 222222 to talk to the If you are an existing client or a third party contact, Police about anything which is not an emergency. you may contact the office by phone during opening hours: Crimestoppers: 0800 555111 if you wish you may Wimborne: 01202 884738 remain anonymous Ferndown: 01202 893838 Website: www.eastdorsetcab.org.uk Parley & Longham Safer Neighbourhood Team: 01202 222222 LIBRARIES Nearest is Ferndown. Open every day except Sunday. Services include books for adults NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH Ferndown South and West group covers Ferndown and young people, feature films and music to and West Parley. Members receive a quarterly hire, reference and information services, local magazine with information and advice. If you history. There are story times, rhyme times and would like to become member or a volunteer to Chatterbooks for children. It also provides internet help distribute the magazines please contact the access. Chairman Accessibility - Wheelchair accessible entrance, David Ayres 01202 896824 buggy/pushchair access, full internal access, Email: [email protected] accessible lift.
Tel: 01202 874542 POST OFFICE Parley Cross Pharmacy ROYAL VOLUNTARY SERVICE 143 New Road, West Parley, BH22 8EB Royal Voluntary Service can help older people Tel: 01202 573191 maintain their independence and stay involved in also houses the Post Office – limited post office the local community. services available In this area they run a Home Library Service, and for those in residential homes or sheltered housing, Ferndown Post office some other services are available. 3 Pennys Walk, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9TH Tel: 01305 236666 full post office services available Website: www.royalvoluntaryservice.org.uk 8 | West Parley Official Guide West Parley Official Guide| 9 TRAVEL
BUSES NORDCAT Transdev Yellow Buses North Dorset Community Accessible Transport Services throughout NORDCAT is a charitable organisation which provides a door-to-door Bournemouth, Christchurch minibus service in the north Dorset area primarily for the elderly, and Poole. disabled and socially excluded. Head Office: NORDCAT Community Transport Manager Yeomans Way, Helen Reed Bournemouth BH8 0BQ Tel: 01258 472164 Tel: 01202 636000 Service 89: Wimborne-Colehill-Ferndown-Castle Point via West Parley Email: (Saturdays only) [email protected] Web: www.bybus.co.uk to see route 29 which serves West WEST PARLEY NEIGHBOUR CAR Parley West Parley Neighbour Car has now been running since September 2013 and has been very successful. So far they have carried out 2,000 Wilts and Dorset Buses trips in the first 3 years and have 15 volunteer drivers. The scheme Serving coast and countryside operates for West Parley residents only, over the age of 55 who are Travel Office: unable to get out and about and provides a lifeline to take them to 27 The Triangle, hospitals, doctor’s surgeries and other health care services as well as Bournemouth BH2 5SE social visits to clubs in the area. Tel: 01202 673555 More drivers would always be welcome, and the scheme is very Email: See company website professionally run. Web: www.wdbus.co.uk and If anyone would like further information either as a driver or a car user download the network map pdf this can be obtained from Kate Ward on 01202 577319
10 | West Parley Official Guide West Parley Official Guide| 11 Osborne Centre HEALTH AND WELFARE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY DEFIBRILLATOR Osborne Centre, Church Lane, Is situated at the Multiple Sclerosis Society, West Parley, BH22 8RR The Osborne Centre, Church Lane, Open: Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays West Parley. BH22 8TS Centre providing physiotherapy and social activities Tel: 01202 570300 for all local people affected by MS. If you would like further information or would like to become a DENTAL PRACTICES volunteer please phone the Centre 01202 570300 Local NHS Dentist Dorset Dental Care CHEMIST 1502 Wimborne Road, Kinson Parley Cross Pharmacy Dorset, BH11 9AD Is a family run pharmacy based at 143 New Road, Tel: 01202 576674 West Parley, BH22 8EB. Tel: 01202 573191 Bear Cross Dental Practise Monday to Friday: 9am – 6.30pm 28 Fulwood Avenue, Bournemouth Saturday: 9am – 1pm Dorset, BH11 9NJ Tel: 01202 577664 Boots Pharmacy Adjacent to Sainsburys supermarket at MEDICAL PRACTICES Tricketts Cross, BH22 9AL The Barcellos Family Practice Tel: 01202 871841 This practice is made up of two surgeries; Monday to Friday: 9am – 7pm one in Tricketts Cross, Corbin Avenue, Saturday: 8.30am – 5.30pm Ferndown BH22 8AZ Sunday: 10am – 4pm Tel: 01202 897989 and one at West Parley Health Centre, Ferndown Pharmacy 54 Glenmoor Road, West Parley BH22 8QF 487 Ringwood Road, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9AG Tel: 01202 874302 Tel: 01202 892666 Mon to Sat: 7am – 11pm The Orchid House Surgery Sunday: 10am – 2pm Ferndown Medical Centre, St Mary’s Road, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9HF Rowlands Pharmacy Tel: 01202 897000 St Marys Road, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9HB Tel: 01202 874460 Penny’s Hill Practice Monday to Friday: 8.30am – 6.30pm St Mary’s Road, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9HB Saturday: 8.30am – 1pm Tel: 01202 897200
Tesco Superstore Northbourne Surgery Pennys Walk, Ferndown, Dorset BH22 9TH 1368 Wimborne Road, Bournemouth Tel: 03456 779270 Dorset, BH10 7AR Mon to Sat: 8am – 6pm Tel: 01202 574100 Sunday: 10am – 4pm 12 | West Parley Official Guide West Parley Official Guide| 13 EMERGENCY NHS If it’s not an immediate emergency call NHS 111; if it’s an emergency call NHS 999
Christchurch Hospital has no A&E medical assistance after your GP surgery as department. Fairmile Road, closed; this centre is available at weekends and Christchurch. BH23 2JX. bank holidays. Tel: 111 for an appointment Tel: 01202 486361 Wimborne Hospital – Minor Injuries Unit. Poole Hospital A&E department open 24 hours Victoria Hospital, Victoria Road. Wimborne a day. Longfleet Road, Poole BH15 2JB. BH21 1ER. Monday to Friday only 8.30am Tel: 01202 665511 – 4pm. This unit closes for 30 minutes for lunch; this time varies based on the number of Royal Bournemouth Hospital A&E department people in the unit. No appointment or referrals open 24 hours a day. Castle Lane East. are necessary; just walk in for a nurse led Bournemouth BH7 7DW. Tel: 01202 303626 assessment and treatment service for non-life threatening injuries and illnesses in adults and St Leonards Out of Hours Treatment Centre. children. NB: there isn’t a Doctor present. If you or a member of your family require Tel: 01202 856410
OPTICIANS PHYSIOTHERAPY SERVICES Hendersons Opticians Ferndown Physio Is a privately run independent opticians based at Beech House, 29 Church Road, 54 Victoria Road Ferndown. BH22 9HZ. Ferndown BH22 9ES. Call: 01202 871711 Call: 01202 897100
Knight Eyecare PHYSIO FITNESS 61 Victoria Road, Ferndown. BH22 9HU. Swallow Barn Call: 01202 891727 Parley Court Estate, Parley Green Lane. West Parley BH23 6BB. Parley Optometrists Call: 01202 611244 Is a family run single outlet practice based at 127 New Road, West Parley. BH22 8EB. Call: 01202 575759 SAMARITANS The Samaritans is a voluntary organisation giving support to people experiencing a personal crisis, Underwood Eyecare especially those who feel suicidal. Phones are Based at 7 Pennys Walk, Ferndown, manned 24 hours a day 365 days of the year. Call: Dorset, BH22 9TH. 01202 551999 or 08457 909090 Call: 01202 891955 VETERINARY SERVICES CHIROPRACTIC SERVICES Cedar Veterinary Group Parley Chiropractic Clinic 81 Victoria Road, Ferndown BH22 9HU 183 New Road, West Parley BH22 8ED Call: 01202 861622 Call: 01202 593006 Monday – Friday 8.30am – 6pm
CHIROPODIST SERVICES Parley Cross Veterinary Centre Ferndown Chiropody Surgery New Road, West Parley BH22 8EB 181 New Road, West Parley, BH22 8ED Call: 01202 577722 Call: 01202 581090 Monday – Friday 8.30am – 6.30pm Saturday 9am – 12pm OSTEOPATHIC SERVICES The Practice at Ferndown St Mary’s 120 Victoria Road, Ferndown BH22 9JA 300 Ringwood Road, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9AS Call: 01202 890044 Call: 01202 876901 Opening hours 8.30am – 6.30pm 14 | West Parley Official Guide
CHURCHES
West Parley Ferndown THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CHURCH OF ENGLAND Saint Mark’s St Mary’s Church 250 New Road, West Parley Church Road, Ferndown Telephone: 01202 897087 All Saint’s Church Lane, West Parley Visit website http://stmarys-ferndown.org.uk for information on services and clubs Visit website http://www.stmarks-allsaints- westparley.org.uk/ for information on services UNITED CHURCH FERNDOWN and clubs United Church 505 Wimborne Road East, Ferndown West Moors Telephone: 01202 871440 ROMAN CATHOLIC Visit website http://unitedchurchferndown.org.uk St Anthony’s Church, for information on services and clubs 8 Pinehurst Road, West Moors, BH22 0AP Telephone: 01202 874811
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Parley First School
EDUCATION PARLEY FIRST SCHOOL FERNDOWN MIDDLE SCHOOL Glenmoor Road, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 8QE Peter Grant Way, Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9UP Admits pupils ages 4 to 9 Admits pupils ages 9 to 13 Head teacher: Mr. J. Bagwell Head teacher: Mrs G Allen Tel: 01202 874400 Tel: 01202 876556 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
FERNDOWN FIRST SCHOOL FERNDOWN UPPER SCHOOL Ferndown First School, Mountbatten Drive, Admits pupils ages 13+ Ferndown, Dorset, BH22 9FB Head teacher: Philip Jones Admits pupils ages 4 to 9 Tel: 01202 871243 Head teacher: Mrs Jo Di-Pede Email: [email protected] Tel: 01202 873747 Email: [email protected]
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Support for community groups in West Parley West Parley Parish Council is keen to encourage new community groups to form and to encourage the existing groups in a series of measures that will help residents to get involved in the community social scene. Groups or individuals can apply to the Parish Council for grant funding. The application form can be obtained from the Parish Clerk Linda Leeding The Gardening Club [email protected] . Anyone planning to set up a new group or event may not be sure of the local reaction to this so the Parish Council will pay for the hire of local public space for the first 3 meetings for new groups. This offer is for West Parley residents only and not for commercial organisations or political groups.
WEST PARLEY RESIDENT’S an even more attractive place to live. Over 150 ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEERS volunteers working in various groups are making a big impact on the appearance of the village, many The West Parley Volunteers, based on the of whom give a good deal of their time on a regular Residents Association co-ordinated with the Parish basis. If you would like to help please contact Council, are very active in a number of different John Dinsdale 01202 872974 projects designed to make our lovely village email [email protected]
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COFFEE MORNING CLUB help to make life a little more tolerable for those Held every Wednesday from 10am – 12noon at the who need a helping hand. All in an atmosphere of Parley Sports Club. All residents and friends very fun and fellowship. welcome. So why not join us for a Rotary evening! Interested? Please contact Rotarian Ian Pounds PARLEY LUNCH CLUB Tel: 07717 734958 Meet 2nd Wednesday of the month 12.15pm at various restaurants in the area. FERNDOWN STROKE CLUB For more details contact Hilary 01202 896738 or The club meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month email: [email protected] - 10.30am to 12.30pm. Meetings take place at: Ferndown Girl Guide Hall, Spinney Lane, Ferndown GARDENING CLUB (Off Ringwood Road- leading to TESCO Car Park). The club meetings take place on the last Tuesday For more information please call Dr Peter Pavier of each month, each with a different interesting 01202 581502 or email: speaker, at West Parley Sports Club. Open to [email protected] anyone interested in gardening you do not need to be an expert. New members are welcome. For WEST PARLEY TOWNSWOMEN’S GUILD more information contact Malcolm Plascott West Parley Townswomen’s Guild is part of the 01202 950521 National Organisation of Townswomen’s Guilds which was formed in 1929 when women were FRIENDS OF ALL SAINTS CHURCH looking for interests additional to their homes. The Friends of All Saints Church (FOAS) has been It is an organisation for women of all ages and set up to help restore and maintain this historic nationalities wishing to meet together on a 12th century church which is at the very heart of the regular basis for educational, recreational and community of West Parley. social activities aimed at educating women in the Everyone is welcome to join FOAS: churchgoers principles of good citizenship. Townswomen’s and non-churchgoers, residents of West Parley and Guilds are non party political and non sectarian. those who no-longer live here but may still have The Guild at West Parley was formed in 2000 and links with the community. at present has 44 members of all ages, interests To join, please pick up a leaflet from St Marks or and abilities. The main monthly meeting is held on All Saints Churches. If you have any questions the first Wednesday of the month from 10.00 till or would like to know more about FOAS please noon at West Parley Memorial Hall. All enquiries contact Jan Oates, FOAS Secretary on to Valerie Barker 01202 574627 or email: 01202 314420 [email protected]
WIMBORNE AND WEST PARLEY WOMEN’S INSTITUTE West Parley Women’s Institute meets on FERNDOWN LIONS CLUB the second Thursday of each month at West Members of Lions Clubs International, which Parley Memorial Hall, 2.00 - 4.15pm. Most months is the largest Volunteer Service Organisation they have a speaker. For more information please in the World. Membership is by invitation. For contact Secretary Jane Roberts 01202 870618. more information please contact Godwin Micallef at [email protected] or see the website: www.wimborneandferndownlions.org.uk/
ROTARY CLUB OF PARLEY (See advertisement on opposite page) Parley Rotary meets on the 1st 3rd and 4th Thursday evenings of the month at the Dudsbury Golf Club. The bar is always open for refreshments followed by a simple but well-presented meal. The business of the evening is then conducted in an informal manner, occasionally followed by a guest speaker. We have a light hearted approach to a of range enjoyable fund raising projects. We aim to raise these funds for local, national and international good causes in the belief that we can
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SPORTS & LEISURE PARLEY SPORTS CLUB for members. Running between the Curlew pub in Christchurch Parley Sports Club is home to Parley Football Club, Road and West Parley Memorial Hall is Stocks Parley Cricket Club and Parley Petanque and the Lane. At the end is a Parish Council car park and venue is a family-friendly social club for the whole Parley Sports Club. To the left is a Parish Council community. recreation ground and Parish Council children’s In addition to the sport on offer, there are a number play area and to the right is a beautiful, huge level of associations and groups that meet at Parley field edged with mature trees. Sports Club, including Pilates, Parley Walking Club Parley Sports Club offers a good range of food, a and Parley Gardening club. For more information variety of events as well as hire of its function room, call: 01202 573345 24 | West Parley Official Guide PUBLIC HOUSES CURLEW INN OWLS NEST Part of Vintage Inns 196 Christchurch Road, West Parley, BH22 8SS 287 Christchurch Road, West parley, BH22 8SQ 01202 572793 01202 594811 www.theowlsnest-westparley.com www.vintageinn.co.uk/content/vintage-inn/en/ restaurants/south-west/thecurlewbournemouth DUDSBURY COUNTRY CLUB 219 Christchurch Road, West Parley, BH22 8SS THE HORNS INN 01202 578911 182 Christchurch Road, West Parley, BH22 8SS www.dudsburycountryclub.com 01202 572080 www.thehornsinnferndown.co.uk
West Parley Official Guide| 25 PLAY AREA 1633 and medieval ditch and bank boundaries that The Parish Council Recreation Ground, Stocks can still be found around and within the Common. Lane. West Parley BH22 8SQ. This is a very tidy A large number of trees have been cut in the last 10 ecologically-themed play area. Equipment includes years to restore the heathland habitat for protected basket swing, play tower, balance beam, swings species, such as lizards, snakes and newts. for younger children and a slide. This play area is in Summer cattle grazing has been reintroduced here a generous field suitable for picnics, family games as part of the heath management scheme. Old etc. maps show smugglers tracks across the common heading towards Ringwood. PARLEY CRICKET CLUB This successful club offers cricket to all; for more MOORS VALLEY COUNTRY PARK information call: 01202 821987 or visit the website & FOREST www.parleycricketclub.co.uk You can enjoy a peaceful walk or cycle ride through the forest, experience a ride on an authentic PARLEY FOOTBALL CLUB narrowgauge steam train or Go Ape on a high This successful club offers a lot of football wire forest adventure.Visit the website for more opportunities. For more information call: information www.moors-valley.co.uk 01425 470721 07450 428279 or visit the website www.clubwebsite.co.uk/parleysportsfc0102/ DUDSBURY GOLF CLUB A championship Golf Course, PARLEY PETANQUE CLUB Luxury Hotel and Spa. This new club has had a very successful 64 Christchurch Road, West Parley, BH22 8ST first year and is looking for new members. 01202 593499 For more information visit the website www.dudsburygolfclub.co.uk www.parleypetanqueclub.webeden.co.uk
PARLEY HEALTH WALKS Every Wednesday 10am from the Parley Sports Club, followed by coffee and biscuits, everyone welcome.
EQUESTRIAN CENTRE Stocks Farm, Christchurch Road, West Parley. BH22 8SQ Tel: 01202 570288
Memorial Hall PARLEY WOOD 17 acres of ancient natural woodland, owned by the Parish Council. Part has SSSI status and the WEST PARLEY MEMORIAL HALL This is a Charitable Trust, which was opened on trees are protected by TPOs. Shown first on C17 30th May 1964 for the benefit of the community maps as one of the few areas of woodland in West and local organisations. Since that time the Hall Parley, which was mainly small scale agriculture has been in constant use and its facilities have and heathland. It was well used by local residents. been refurbished in 2016 with new curtains & stage Hazel in the wood was coppiced for hurdles and curtains. fencing and the oak trees were felled regularly, but It is administered by a management committee who not since WW2. The wood is regularly flooded as it endeavour to maintain a clean, bright and inviting is low lying and drainage to the west across to the venue, for a range of activities and events including Moors River is poor. dancing, anniversary parties, weddings, dog shows and meetings. PARLEY COMMON The Hall can accommodate around 250 people This large area of restored heathland is part of a seated in theatre style for meetings and up to 150 once extensive area of heath across south and east seated at tables for social occasions and activities. Dorset. Cattle used to be grazed here and heather A large stage and a room at each side, which are turves were dug for fuel and bracken cut for animal used as committee meeting rooms, offer great bedding as part of local subsistence farming. The alternatives. For more information call: 07979 open common was split into individual ownership in 853697 or email [email protected] 26 | West Parley Official Guide West Parley Official Guide| 27 YOUTH ACTIVITIES
and adventure! St John Ambulance Badgers Setts offer a great range of activities for children. The local unit meet every Tuesday (excluding school holidays) 7pm – 8.30pm at Longham Church, email: [email protected] or www.sja.org.uk/sja/young-people.aspx
GIRLGUIDING Girlguiding Dorset is part of Girlguiding, the leading charity for girls and young women in the UK. West Parley Recreation Ground If you would like to volunteer, or if you would like to join Girlguiding, please visit www.girlguiding.org. ST JOHN AMBULANCE, uk/interested. Once you have registered a leader FERNDOWN CADETS will get back to you within 21 days in the correct area. Young people aged 10-17 can join, it’s a great way for teens and young people to take part in volunteer work and learn valuable life skills. The local unit SCOUTS, CUB SCOUTS AND meet every Tuesday (excluding school holidays) BEAVERS SCOUTS 7pm – 8.30pm at Longham Church, 07900 017951 Starting age: or email [email protected] Beavers is 6 Cubs 8 BADGERS Scouts 10 Anyone aged 7-10 years old can join Badger Setts, Local groups at Ferndown and Longham visit the an after school club. At Badgers it’s all about fun website http://scouts.org.uk/get-involved/
28 | West Parley Official Guide West Parley Official Guide| 29 VILLAGE HISTORY Our ancient past their animals, collect wood and cut turf for fuel and West Parley has an ancient history. Worked flints use the open common grassland to graze animals. and axe heads from the Mesolithic (10000BC) West Parley has been owned by a succession through the Neolithic Age (5000BC to 2000BC) of Lords of the Manor from around 1310 but in 1575 have been found on the river terraces and the Sir Henry Weston sold his lands in West Parley to landscape is peppered with Bronze Age (2000BC the sitting tenants as the medieval farming system to 700BC) barrow burial mounds. Three barrows died out, allowing the better land to be parcelled up remain within the village, the others being into farms so that the tenants could invest in new destroyed by housing development. farming methods and improve output. Dudsbury Camp is an ancient promontory hill For some time the heath was left unenclosed, fort built in the Iron Age from 800BC to 43AD. There but this was done in 1633 with local yeoman are two large defensive earth rings around a large farmers being given ownership of long strips of open space of about 8 acres. Tall wooden ramparts land in a north / south alignment that are reflected would have been on top of the rings. Built by the in the landscape even now. Durotriges tribe along with other Dorset forts, such There would have been a number of tracks as Badbury Rings, Maiden Castle and Hod Hill, this across the Common as local people moved large feature must have need a large labour force livestock from their plots in the Stour valley to build it and there would have been a wide area and carried goods and livestock to market. The of settlement around the hill fort for a considerable steady movement of horses and carts across the time. landscape meant that as one path spoilt another In earliest manuscripts Parley is spelt ‘Pirige- would be created and there were probably different Leah, an Anglo Saxon name meaning ‘Pear Tree paths for summer and winter as parts of the Field’. The use of the term ‘field’ indicates an Common became waterlogged. Trees would have ordered agricultural life and there is no reason to been cut for wood and grazing by cattle, sheep and believe that West Parley was any different from pigs would have kept saplings at bay. numerous other Saxon river settlements with farming dominating, as it still does, the fertile plain A growing community of the Stour. The Domesday Book records only 60 From this time Parley was a slowly growing inhabitants here: little changed over the next 500 collection of small farms, such as Barnes Farm, years. Stocks Farm, Church Farm and Wood Town Farm, as well as numerous smallholdings and houses, How the land was used including The Horns public house. Much of the From Saxon times to the Middle Ages local people settlement was along the prevailing east / west axis would use the open system of farming, having a from Wimborne to Christchurch and south to the number of strips of land of one or just half an acre Saxon All Saints Church that was the main focus of on the good ground across the Stour valley. They village life. would also be able to use the local heath to graze Better houses, such as the larger farmhouses, 30 | West Parley Official Guide were built in brick from clay fired locally but many in West Parley, and Parley Cross in particular, houses were built of cob with heather roofs that fell becoming dominated by the impact of this traffic. into disrepair if not maintained. In the 1920s it was The junction is one of the most used in Dorset estimated that some 40 cottages in the area had and is regularly subject to long traffic jams at peak been lost within living memory. times.
Recent Times Did you know? Parley was a fairly self -sufficient community • West Parley parish used to be much larger, that changed little until about 100 years ago. including West Moors and part of Longham 19th Century census returns reveal a small and but was reduced with local government remarkably stable population with a number of old reorganisation in 1956 and 1970’s. established families as yet little influenced by the • Many family names have been noted rapid expansion of neighbouring Bournemouth. in road names locally. Ellesfield Drive, West Parley became an occasional tourist Cammel Road, Plecy Close, Brune Way are destination from Victorian times using the ferry named after past Lords of the Manor. at Redhill to cross the river and residents used to • Gibbet Firs, just outside the parish go to Bournemouth to sell local market garden boundary to the east, is the site of the last produce. gibbet in the south of England. It was used The Stour could be crossed with care in a horse in 1804 to display the bodies of 2 criminals and cart when the river was low but the deaths of executed for murder at that spot. The base two local girls in 1908 added pressure for a better of the gibbet remained in the ground until river crossing to link the expanding Ferndown to about 25 years ago but part of it now forms Bournemouth. the base of the sundial on the entrance The construction of the Ensbury bridge, first path to All Saints Church. in 1910 and again in 1923 after the first collapsed, • The Guide camp within the hill fort at transformed both West Parley and Ferndown, with Dudsbury was started in 1931 after the land the main road to Bournemouth, creating a new was donated by Lady Wimborne Parley Cross and with it a new village centre with • West Parley has numerous old oak trees shops, post office and a garage. WW1 suspended within the village. The medieval open major development but by the late 1920s / farming system cleared away a lot of the early 1930s the core of the current village was scrubland and woods leaving unfelled established yet the population was still only around trees as field boundaries. The oldest ones, 400 residents. around the Dudsbury area, are between Much of the land along Christchurch Road and 300 and 350 years old. • Parts of West Parley are protected by to the north west of Parley Cross, still at the time legislation. Parley Common is designated part of the vast tract of wild heathland, was sold for a Site of Special Scientific interest, there is development, either as individual plots to people a conservation area at the end of Church intent on building their own homes, or in more Lane, including some houses, the former substantial portions to developers. A second wave Rectory and the 12th Century Church and of development in the 1960s and 1970s created the numerous old trees have preservation village we have today. orders on them. Dudsbury Camp and the Massive development round the conurbation barrows are scheduled monuments. and the increase in vehicle traffic has resulted
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Barrack Road D3 Gallows Drive B3 Belle Vue Walk B2 Glenmoor Avenue A1 Berkley Avenue B1 Gorseland Court B1 Birch Avenue C2 Brierley Avenue B2 Hadrian Close B2 Brune Way B1 Burnbrae Road B2 Linden Close A2 Linden Road A2 Cammel Road A2 Lone Pine Drive B1/C2 Chine Walk B2/3 Lone Pine Way C2 Christchurch Road B3 Longfield Drive B3 Church Lane C4 Lydlinch Close B3 Conifer Close C2 Crescent Walk B2 Mag’s Barrow B2 Cresta Gardens B2 Mansfield Close B2 Meadow Close B3 Dane Drive C1 Dene Walk B3 New Road B2-C3 Dorset Avenue B1 Druids Close B2 Oak Close B3 Dudsbury Gardens B4 Oakland Walk C2 Dudsbury Road B2/3 Parley Close C3 Ebor Close B2 Plecy Close B1 Ellesfield Drive B2 Elm Tree Walk B3 Redroofs B1 Ridgeway B3/4 Fitzpain Close A2 Fitzpain Road A2 Wight Walk B2 Winnards Close C2
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