| Canford Cliffs and Compton Acres |
| This is a lovely little village which along with
Sandford was made a separate parochial district in 1945. It has a
wealthy residential area that overlooks Poole Harbour and here can be
found Compton Acres with its ornamental gardens which were designed by
Thomas Simpson who bought the mansion in 1914 and then constructed the
garden in a series of separate areas that wee laid out so that only one
could be viewed at a time. The famous Gardener from the Daily Mail,
Arthur Middleton and who had a cartoon strip giving gardening tips
worked here. The new church is built on the site of where once a Mission church which was built in 1911 once stood, and a lot of the timbers from the little Mission church are now used in the modern one. Today Compton Acres is a top tourist attraction in the county and thousands of visitors call here each year. Pevsner described Canford as "a
bungaloid church of 1962-5 by Lionel E. Gregory, the exact
ecclesiastical equivalent of Dunromin and Thistledo, with crazy-paved
walling and saw-toothed dormers."
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