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<p>businesses and is one of the largest employment sites in Dorset.</p>

<p><big>History</big></p>
<p>Christchurch was founded in approximately AD&nbsp;650 by <a href="page.php?w=Missionary">missionaries</a> sent to <a href="page.php?w=Wessex">Wessex</a> by <a href="page.php?w=Birinus">St Birinus</a>, the first <a href="page.php?w=Bishop_of_Winchester">Bishop of Dorchester</a> (Oxfordshire). They settled on a stretch of raised land between the rivers <a href="page.php?w=Hampshire_Avon">Avon</a> and <a href="page.php?w=River_Stour%2C_Dorset">Stour</a> which</p><p>
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