Victorian Bournemouth (137) provides demographic and geographic background for further analyses about Springbourne’s population and society as captured by the 1881 census.
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Immigration at early Victorian Bournemouth
Introduction Immigration provided the majority of early Victorian Bournemouth’s residential population. Although sited in Hampshire, almost as many people came from Dorset as from Bournemouth’s home county. In particular, the rural hinterland separating Wimborne from Cranborne proved a fertile departure point for Bournemouth’s immigration. The stream of immigrants from Dorset to Bournemouth occurred at a […]