A weekend away in Bournemouth to check out the possibility of moving there, turned out to be an incredibly successful bit of spotting monkey puzzle trees! The highlight being Wimborne Road Cemetery.
The cemetery was laid out by Christopher Crabb Creeke, however the reason for the trees being there is because of Joseph Cutler. The story goes that when he found that 50 laurel trees had been planted, contrary to what had been planned, he had them ripped up and replaced with monkey puzzles (link).
I only had a short time to count the trees, so my figure of 33 trees might not be right, if it isn't I'll update the count later.
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 1 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 2 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 3 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 4 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 5 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 6 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 7 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 8 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 9 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 10 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 11 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 12 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 13 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 14 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 15 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 16 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 17 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 18 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 19 |
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| Wimborne Road Cemetery 20 |
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| Joseph Cutler |
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