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Hengistbury Head storyboards

Do you like history? I do! Not the history that we used to learn at school which was all about Kings and Queens and wars but history that tells a story about the way things really were for ordinary people in bye-gone times.

I particularly like the story boards that have been put up by Bournemouth Council at Hengistbury Head which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) just a bit down the coast from Newpoint Hotel bed and breakfast.

The story boards tell us about the wildlife on Hengistbury Head, including Galloway Cattle, the woodmouse, the skylark and the meadow pipit, but they also tell us about how people lived and hunted on Hengisbury Head and Warren Point between 12,500 years ago and 4,000 years ago during the Stone Age which is really fascinating.

I wonder if there were bed and breakfast hotels in the Dorset Stone Age, or at least the equivalent? I’m sure that people must have given shelter to weary travellers in their caves or mud huts from time to time.

View walking up the path to Hengistbury Head, Bournemouth, Dorset

Mind you, I might draw the line at nipping out on a cold morning to club a wild pig to make the full English breakfasts.

Of course, I suppose England didn’t really exist in those days. It was just a place somewhere out there, perhaps told about by travellers in stories around the camp fires.

Christchurch Bay from Hengistbury Head, Bournemouth, Dorset

Well, all this is very philosophical and the telephone is ringing, hopefully with people wanting to take advantage of my incredible November bed and breakfast hotel deals and perhaps to visit Hengistbury Head and imagine what it was like all those years ago for themselves.

Bye for now

Christine

Christine Watson - Newpoint Hotel bed and breakfast