•  Muddiford, Hampshire

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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Muddiford like this:

MUDDIFORD, a village in Christchurch parish, Hants; on a creek of Christchurch bay, 1½ mile E of Christchurch. It contains lodgings for summer visitors, and commands an excellent bathing-beach; and it had Coleridge as a lodger in 1816. Gundimore villa, in its vicinity, was formerly the residence of W. ...

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S. Rose, Esq.; and was visited, in his time, by Walter Scott, who there wrote part of his " Marmion." Mr. Rose afterwards wrote a poem called " Gundimore; " and lie said, in that poem

Here Walter Scott has woo'd the nor thern muse;
Here he with me has joy'd to walk or cruise;
and hence has prick'd through Ytene's holt, where we
Have call'd to mind how, under greenwood tree,
Pierc'd by the partner of his woodland craft,
King Rufus fell by Tyrell's random shaft.
Hence have we rang'd by Celtic camps and barrows,
Or climb'd th' expectant bark, to thread the Narrows
Of Hurst, bound westward to the gloomy bower
Where Charles was prison'd in yon island tower."

Muddiford through time

Muddiford is now part of Christchurch district. Click here for graphs and data of how Christchurch has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Muddiford itself, go to Units and Statistics.

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