The Mysterious Indian Hut

Memories of Charminster

The Mysterious Indian Hut

England BH8 9QT, United Kingdom

Created By: Queens Park Forum

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The Mysterious Indian Hut began to make an appearance in the last thirty years of the nineteenth-century map. According to Pascoe Marshall, it was a wattle-and-daub hut, built as a primitive isolation hospital during an outbreak of small-pox in the nineteenth century.

Others have described the hut as a rough cottage believed to be inhabited by a tramp and speculation was that he was an Indian soldier but it has not been proven. On the 1861 consensus the building was already known as Indian Hut and at the time was inhabited by a family of four; the Lockyer family.

The original Indian Hut disappeared under building developments of the early years of the twentieth century with its last reference in the Bournemouth Graphic in 1906.

This point of interest is part of the tour: Memories of Charminster


 

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