Boveridge

Boveridge
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Boveridge  Boveridge shown within Dorset
OS grid reference	SU0614
Civil parish	Cranborne
District	East Dorset
Shire county	Dorset
Region	South West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Wimborne
Postcode district	BH21
Dialling code	01725
Police	Dorset
Fire	Dorset
Ambulance	South Western
EU Parliament	South West England
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Boveridge is a hamlet in Dorset, England about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Cranborne, 12 miles (19 km) south-west of Salisbury, Wiltshire, and 10 miles (16 km) north-east of Wimborne Minster, Dorset.

Notable buildings

Boveridge House, a grade II listed building was designed by William Evans of Wimborne and built some time after 1788 for Henry Brouncker. The Ordnance Survey surveyor's Drawing (1807-1808) shows the house set in a strip of pleasure grounds and woodland extending from north-west to south-east. There had been a farm on the site of an older mansion. In 1920, Charles Wilfred Gordon and his wife, an enthusiastic amateur gardener, commissioned Thomas Mawson to provide plans for new formal gardens around the house. Gertrude Jekyll provided planting plans which were implemented in the 1920s. The house is adjacent to the mid-19th century Boveridge Farm which is also Grade II listed is north-west of the house.

In the 1890s the estate was sold to George Thursley and later sold again to Charles Gordon. It remained the property of the Gordon family until 1961 when it was bought by the Combe family of Cobham Park and then Viscount Cranborne, owner of nearby Cranborne Manor. The house and grounds were let to a special needs school and remain in school use. Renovation of the grounds took place from 1998.

Boveridge House School, also known as The Philip Green Memorial School currently occupies the site which is not open to the public, other than on special occasions. Students are admitted from the age of 11 for boarders. The school can accommodate up to 44 boarding students both male and female, with moderate to severe learning difficulties and communication problems. Students may be admitted from any Local Education Authority or private source.