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East Boldre is a
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and
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situated near
Lymington Lymington is a port town on the west bank of the Lymington River on the Solent, in the New Forest (district), New Forest district of Hampshire, England. The town faces Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to which there is a Roll-on/roll-off, car ferry s ...
,
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, England. East Boldre is surrounded by the
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and forms part of the district of New Forest. The
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parish church is dedicated to St. Paul, and there is a
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chapel which was founded in 1810. There is a traditional local pub, The Turfcutters Arms, and a post office. The parish includes the adjoining hamlet of East End.


History

People have lived in the East Boldre area since prehistoric times. Over thirty
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barrows lie within the parish boundaries.East Boldre
, www3.hants.gov.uk, retrieved 10 July 2011
The village of East Boldre was originally a straggling
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and was known as Beaulieu Rails. This earlier name reflected the fact that the settlement had grown up along the wooden railings defining the western boundary of the manor and parish of Beaulieu. The residents were described in a parliamentary report in 1834 as "for the most part smugglers and deer-stealers." The first church was a
Baptist Baptists are a Christian denomination, denomination within Protestant Christianity distinguished by baptizing only professing Christian believers (believer's baptism) and doing so by complete Immersion baptism, immersion. Baptist churches ge ...
church founded in 1810. The
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church of St. Paul was built in 1839 but was
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and the chancel added in 1891.Victoria County History, (1911), A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 - Boldre, Pages 616-623
/ref> The ecclesiastical parish of East Boldre was formed in 1840.William White, (1878), ''History, gazetteer and directory of the county of Hampshire'', page 211. There were 650 inhabitants in 1871. The village hall was built in 1917.
East Boldre Parish Council, retrieved 10 July 2011
In 1929 East Boldre Civil Parish was created from the Parish of
Boldre Boldre is a village and civil parish in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England. It is in the south of the New Forest National Park, above the broadening (estuary) of the Lymington River, two miles (3 km) north of Lymington. In the 2 ...
. An airfield was built in East Boldre in 1910. There was a flying school there for two years before the airfield reverted to grazing land. In 1914, one of the sheds on the airfield was taken over by the
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, and by 1915, the demand for pilots for
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resulted in a training school called RFC Beaulieu being built. On 24 October 1917, the village post office at East Boldre was accidentally damaged by a British aeroplane, and for six months, the elderly inhabitants had to live under tarpaulins in the house even whilst transacting postal business. The camp was closed in 1919. The airfield identification letters, BEAULIEU, have been restored and are still visible at this location 50°48'25.9"N 1°28'52.7"W In 1942, during
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, a three-runway airfield,
RAF Beaulieu Royal Air Force Beaulieu or more simply RAF Beaulieu is a former Royal Air Force List of former Royal Air Force stations, station in the New Forest, Hampshire, England. It was also known as Beaulieu airfield, Beaulieu aerodrome and USAAF Station ...
, was built on the opposite side of the road. It was used by both the
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and then later by the
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. After the war, the
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(AFEE) came to RAF Beaulieu and used the former airfield as a parachute dropping zone until September 1950.RAF Beaulieu Airfield
rafbeaulieu.co.uk, retrieved 22 December 2022
The site was then neglected, and the Air Ministry relinquished control of the land in 1959. Today, model aircraft are flown on the site. The film director
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and his fourth wife Elize lived in a thatched cottage in East Boldre. On 3 April 2006, the cottage burned down, destroying most of their possessions, including much of Russell's movie-making equipment. They afterwards moved to nearby
Lymington Lymington is a port town on the west bank of the Lymington River on the Solent, in the New Forest (district), New Forest district of Hampshire, England. The town faces Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to which there is a Roll-on/roll-off, car ferry s ...
.Stage & Screen: Ken Russell
'' Daily Echo'', 21 June 2007, retrieved 2 December 2011


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External links


Parish Council & Village Hall website
* {{authority control Villages in Hampshire