Introduction ‘Cosmopolitan’ could have described early Victorian Bournemouth’s tourists, but the term might also have applied to the resort’s immigrant residential population. Demographic analysis of the population living in the Wimborne, Allen, Cranborne, Crane (WACC) hinterland offers insight into this aspect of the resort’s residents. The demographic analysis applied here depends on data from the […]
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 […]