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Lilliput is a district of Poole, Dorset. It borders on Sandbanks, Canford Cliffs, Lower Parkstone, and Whitecliff and has a shoreline within Poole Harbour with views of Brownsea Island and the Purbeck Hills. The area is host to a number of sailing clubs including Parkstone Yacht Club, Lilliput Sailing Club, and East Dorset Sailing Club, and to Salterns Marina, which is a 5 Gold Anchor marina and blue flag achiever offering a boatyard, brokerage, and hotel. Brownsea Island stands opposite Lilliput's harbour foreshore and is famous as the birth place of Baden Powell's International Scouting Movement. Lilliput itself was host to a number of early scouting camps. During the second world war at one stage it provided Britain's only civilian air route: Poole Harbour was temporary home to the Imperial Airways/BOAC flying boat fleet, which had its passenger HQ at Salterns.Well known residents have included modernist writer Mary Butts, a very young John le Carre and disc-jockey Tony Blackburn. Impresario Fred Karno spent his last years in the village of Lilliput as a part-owner of an off-licence, bought with financial help from Charlie Chaplin, and died here in 1941 from diabetes aged 75. == Development == Mary Butts wrote about her childhood in one of the old mansions at the turn of the twentieth century in her autobiography ''The Crystal Cabinet - My Childhood at Salterns (1937)''. Her great grandfather had been a principal patron of the English romantic poet and artist William Blake, and her Lilliput home housed a large collection of Blake paintings (now in Tate Britain). The autobiography was named after one of Blake's poems. She adored the area and was very critical of the kind of development then taking place in Lilliput and Poole-Parkstone-Bournemouth. Aside from an enclave behind Evening Hill, a local beauty spot with panoramic views over Poole Harbour and the Purbeck Hills, modern development started in the later 1920s as more of the older estates were sold for suburban projects. A number of distinctive art-deco homes were built, including the landmark Salterns Court building at the new shopping parade. Before its development as a residential and recreational area there had been industrial projects at Salterns, which had been the district's local name. Some claim a connection to Jonathan Swift and his famous Gulliver's Travels novel, and there are local streets which have associated names. However the name 'Lilliput' probably derives from one of the old mansions built near Evening Hill, whose owner - perhaps a fan of Swift - called it Lilliput House. There has been a recent proposal for a major redevelopment at Salterns Marina, although there is controversy about who will benefit from this. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lilliput, Dorset」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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