CANFORD CLIFFS
Canford Cliffs is an affluent suburb of Poole in Dorset, England. The neighbourhood lies on the English Channel coast midway between Poole and Bournemouth. To the southwest is Sandbanks which boasts some of the highest property values in the world, and together Canford Cliffs and Sandbanks form a parish, which boasts the fourth highest property prices in the world and second highest in the United Kingdom after London.

HISTORY
Originally part of the estate of Lord Wimborne, development began in the 1880s. The land around Haven Road was divided into plots and buildings designed individually. The area was originally designed to be residential, with a church and village hall but few commercial buildings. The Canford Cliffs Society still works to preserve these goals, and there are few businesses and no industry in the area.

GEOGRAPHY
Canford Cliffs is located along the eastern edge of Poole Harbour. Canford Cliffs is south of Parkstone and north of Sandbanks. Canford Cliffs Chine, running southeast towards Sandbanks, is sandy and flat and the neighbouring waters relatively shallow, making Canford Cliffs a popular site for watersports, especially windsurfing and parasailing.

SANDBANKS
Sandbanks is a small piece of land on the edge of England jutting out over the mouth of Poole Harbour on the English Channel coast at Poole in Dorset, England. It contains one of the most highly awarded and popular beaches in Europe.
Sandbanks, whose main road is known as "millionaires' row", is only 1 km² (0.39 sq mi), and has the fourth highest land value, by area, in the world.
There are exclusive homes both on Sandbanks and across the immediate region, stretching east from the Harbour to The Avenue (the eastern boundary of Poole). The adjacent areas of Lilliput, Branksome Park and Canford Cliffs, also have the largest collection of expensive properties outside London and are home to many celebrities.
The Sandbanks and Canford Cliffs Coastline area has been labelled by national media as Britain's equivalent of the coastlines of the Gold Coast, Australia and Orange County, California.
Sandbanks is connected to Studland by a chain ferry, the Sandbanks Ferry, which runs across the mouth of the Harbour. The Sandbanks area of Poole Harbour (know as North Haven Lake) is widely used for water sports and by light marina craft. The North side also boasts several sailing, water sport and yacht clubs and is home to the Southern Headquarters of the Royal Yachting Association [3] and an international sailing school.
Views from the North extend across Poole Harbour and to Poole. From the South views extend across the English Channel and to the world heritage coastline of Studland and Swanage to the East.

BRANKSOME PARK
Branksome Park is one of Poole's most affluent areas alongside Sandbanks, Canford Cliffs, Evening Hill, Lilliput, and Salterns Marina. It is on the border of Poole, with Bournemouth being on the other side of The Avenue. It is less than two miles (3 km) from the shopping areas of Westbourne and The Square in the centre of Bournemouth.
Branksome Park has seen much residential development in recent years. However, the styles of new buildings remain much less controversial than other places such as Sandbanks.
Local facilities include a sports area with tennis courts and a bowling field. Branksome park also has a small public library and is home to the All Saints Church constructed in 1877, and a school for disabled children which is located on the outskirts of the area.

LILLIPUT
Lilliput is a district of Poole Dorset. It borders on Lower Parkstone, Whitecliff, Canford Cliffs, and Sandbanks, and has a shoreline within Poole Harbour.

LOWER PARKSTONE
Because of the proximity to the shoreline, and the more residential nature of Lower Parkstone, it is the more sought-after district, and originally included Lilliput and the Sandbanks Peninsula (now part of Canford Cliffs) within its official bounds. Lower Parkstone is centred on Ashley Cross, the original location of Parkstone Grammar School, near to the Parish Church of St. Peter. Much of this area was agricultural until the 1920s and 1930s.