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The entrance to Canford School in the northwest corner of the square.
©Brendan and Ruth McCartney
Dist:0.2km<br/>A fine row of Victorian cottages, known locally as Lady Wimborne cottages after the owner of the Canford estate and much of the surrounding land at the time that they were built. They are therefore dotted all around the area – for example, see [[1142703]].
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>Former estate cottages on the eastern side of Canford Magna (the road, not the area); built for estate workers in the mid to late C19 and early C20. About 110 remain. They are built in a distinctive style, which includes plaques with date and family coat of arms, and are individually sequentially numbered. Numbers do not relate to Post Office or local authority numbers. These are cottages nos 50-54. Listed by English Heritage, http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=412428&mode=quick
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.3km<br/>See [[1324978]]; number 50 is the right-hand of the five cottages, but, as http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=412428&mode=adv explains, the "terracotta panels have Gothic numbering from 50 to 54, part of a sequence covering the estate houses of the Wimborne estate", because the street number of this house is 15.
©Derek Harper
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©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
Dist:0.3km<br/>Former estate cottages on the western side of Canford Magna (the road, not the area); built for estate workers in the mid to late C19 and early C20. About 110 remain. They are built in a distinctive style, which includes plaques with date and family coat of arms, and are individually sequentially numbered. Numbers do not relate to Post Office or local authority numbers. These are cottages nos 45-49; in the middle is the village's old post office, no 47. Listed by English Heritage, http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=412429&mode=quick
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.3km<br/>A George VI-reign postbox set into a brick pillar.
©Chris Downer
Dist:0.3km<br/>Canford Magna is a winding road, sometimes without pavement. Slaloms have been introduced to protect pedestrians.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.3km<br/>Path on the Stour Valley Way, between cricket pitches at Canford School.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.4km<br/>Originally the village school, later village hall; the building now appears to be disused. The typical Wimborne Estate plaque dates it to 1876. Compare with the much larger former school in Hamworthy, without doubt by the same builder [[1502179]]. Listed by English Heritage, http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=412436&mode=quick
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.4km<br/>At first glance this looks like a fence but it is a gateway on the footpath FP No 29 to Bearwood. See [[2799137]] for a view of the other side
©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
Dist:0.4km<br/>The other side of our previous photo [[2799124]], this gateway is on the Stour Valley Way.
©Lorraine and Keith Bowdler
Dist:0.4km<br/>The driveway from Canford School joins this road at a bend where it changes from Canford Magna (left) to Oakley Lane (right).
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.4km<br/>The tower of the parish church at Canford Magna.
©Peter Kazmierczak
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©Chris Downer

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