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0. Historic Walks - an overview
Please note: As at 27th February 2023 BCP Council have completed a programme to renovate all the Blue Plaques. Click here for their news item.
Residents and visitors alike wandering around Christchurch must surely have noticed the nineteen Blue Plaques put up by the Christchurch Local History Society - which in 2011 became the Christchurch History Society (CHS) - at locations of historic importance, normally on buildings as close as possible to the true location. In 2025 BCP Council published a leaflet entitled 'Christchurch Cultural Trail', detailing ten key locations and the nineteen plaques and what they commemorated, based on research undertaken by the CHS. The Leaflet is available from the Infomation Centre.
As an expansion of the BCP leaflet, a series of three walks around the centre of Christchurch have been put together by Richard Randerson - a former CHS Chairman - to give greater details of the heritage of the town to residents and visitors alike.
1. Priory Area Historic Walk
This walk takes you on a walking tour around the Historic Quarter of Christchurch around the Priory. There are seven parts:
(i) A Tour of the Historic Quarter of Christchurch around the Priory,
(ii) Christchurch Workhouse (now the Red House Museum and Art Gallery),
(iii) Church Street,
(iv) Site of Old Market Square,
(v) Castle Street,
(vi) Convent Walk, and
(vii) Place Mill.
To start the walk, click here to go to part (i)
2. High Street Historic Walk
This walk takes you on a walking tour around the High Street and Millhams Street. There are three parts:
(i) Saxon Square and the Old Town Hall,
(ii) Millhams Street, and
(iii) Christchurch High Street.
To start the walk, click here to go to part (i)
3. Bargates Historic Walk
This walk takes you on a walking tour around the Bargate Quarter of Christchurch to the North of Christchurch Bypass. There is one part only.
To start the walk, click here.
Revised May 2025
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