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Bournemouth town centre is the town centre of Bournemouth, where the High Street is located.

Most of the town centre around The Square has been pedestrianised, with only Richmond Hill as a cul-de-sac for vehicular access, Exeter Road and Gervis Place for limited vehicular usage, and Avenue Road and Bourne Avenue for general vehicular usage, neither of these 3 groups can be crossed by vehicles to the others. Commercial Road and Old Christchurch Road are the High Street of Bournemouth, which has been pedestrianised between The Triangle and Richmond Gardens Shopping Centre.

Exeter Road and Gervis Place is the only vehicular road connecting the east and the west of the town directly through the town centre, however, motor vehicles are banned except buses, taxis and loading. Therefore, most of the traffic across are buses. General motor traffic going across the town can either use Bath Road in the south near Bournemouth Pier, part of the Ring Road, or Wessex Way in the north.

Westover Road, Gervis Place and Hinton Road forms a circular one-way system on the east of the town centre.


Places in the town centre[]

The Square[]

The Square is the central point of the whole town, on the intersection of Gervis Place, Exeter Road, Commercial Road, Avenue Road, Bourne Avenue, Richmond Hill and Old Christchurch Road in clockwise order.

The Triangle[]

Central Gardens[]

Lower Gardens[]

Bus traffic[]

The section of Gervis Place between Exeter Road and Westover Road, and Westover Road, form the major bus hub of Bournemouth town centre, with the bus stops on Gervis Place named Bournemouth Square and the bus stops on Westover Road named Westover Road. Platforms are lettered at Bournemouth Square (M-Z) and numbered at Westover Road (1-4).

As of July 2021, the following routes serve Bournemouth town centre:

Route number Operator Destination Service level Boarding location
1 Yellow Buses Westbourne - Lower Parkstone - Longfleet - Poole Quay up to every 30 minutes Westover Road, Bournemouth Square, The Triangle
Lansdowne - Boscombe - Pokesdown - Southbourne - Tuckton - Christchurch up to every 10 minutes The Triangle, Bournemouth Square
1a Yellow Buses Lansdowne - Boscombe - Pokesdown - Iford - Christchurch - Somerford up to every 10 minutes Bournemouth Square
Highcliffe-on-Sea - New Milton up to every 30 minutes
1b Yellow Buses Lansdowne - Boscombe - Pokesdown - Beaufort Road - Tuckton - Christchurch up to every 30 minutes
2 Yellow Buses Lansdowne - Springbourne - Boscombe - Pokesdown - Iford - Hospital - Townsend - Castlepoint up to every 15 minutes Westover Road
Northbourne - Kinson - Bearwood up to every 30 minutes
3 Yellow Buses Westbourne up to every 15 minutes Westover Road, Bournemouth Square
Lansdowne - Rail Station - Charminster - Broadway - Castlepoint - Hospital The Triangle, Bournemouth Square
4 Yellow Buses Lansdowne - Rail Station - Winton - Moordown - Muscliff - Castlepoint - Hospital - Iford - Christchurch Bargates up to every 30 minutes Westover Road
4a Yellow Buses Charminster - Winton - Moordown - Northbourne - Kinson - Bear Cross up to every 30 minutes (Mon - Sat daytime operation only) Bourne Avenue, The Triangle, Bournemouth Pier, Westover Road
5 Yellow Buses Lansdowne - Rail Station - Charminster - Winton - Ensbury Park - East Howe - Kinson up to every 7/8 minutes (5/5a combined) Bournemouth Square
5a Lansdowne - Rail Station - Charminster - Winton - Ensbury Park - West Howe - Kinson
6 Yellow Buses Lansdowne - Railca Station - University - Wallisdown up to every 30 minutes Westover Road
High Howe - Bearwood - Merley - Wimborne - Canford Bottom up to every hour
11 Yellow Buses East Cliff - Boscombe Pier - Southbourne Overcliff - Hengistbury Head - Tuckton - Christchurch - Mudeford every 2 hours (low season) / every hour (high season) Bournemouth Pier
12 Yellow Buses East Cliff - Boscombe Pier every hour (low season) / every 30 minutes (high season) The Triangle, Bournemouth Square, Bournemouth Pier
West Cliff - Westbourne - Alum Chine Bournemouth Pier, Westover Road, Bournemouth Square, The Triangle
13 morebus Lansdowne - Rail Station - Winton - Moordown - Northbourne - Parley Cross - Ferndown - Colehill - Wimborne up to every 30 minutes Bournemouth Square, Bournemouth Pier
16 morebus Westbourne - Branksome - Alder Hills - Alderney - Sea View - Longfleet - Poole up to every 30 minutes Bournemouth Square
17 Lansdowne - Rail Station - University - Wallisdown - Alderney - Sea View - Longfleet - Poole
18 Yellow Buses Westbourne - Branksome - Upper Parkstone - Sea View - Canford Heath - Hillbourne - Broadstone up to every hour (Mon - Sat daytime operation only) Bournemouth Square
20 morebus Westbourne - Penn Hill - Whitecliff - Poole up to every hour (Mon - Sat daytime operation only) Bourne Avenue
Charminster - Castlepoint
32 morebus Lansdowne - Rail Station - Winton - Ensbury Park - Northbourne - Bear Cross - Bearwood - Merley - Broadstone - Fleetsbridge - Stanley Green - Oakdale - Longfleet - Poole 2 departures only on Monday to Saturday The Triangle, Bournemouth Square
33 Yellow Buses East Cliff - Boscombe - Littledown - Hospital - Iford - Pokesdown - Southbourne - Hengistbury - Christchurch up to every hour (Mon - Sat daytime operation only) Bournemouth Square, Bournemouth Pier
36 Yellow Buses Bourne Valley - Talbot View up to every hour (Mon - Sat daytime operation only) Bourne Avenue, The Triangle
Bourne Valley - Talbot Woods - University (Fern Barrow) - Wallisdown - West Howe - Bear Cross - Kinson The Triangle, Bourne Avenue
50 morebus West Cliff - Westbourne - Branksome Chine - Canford Cliffs - Sandbanks - Shell Bay - Studland - Swanage up to every 30 minutes Bournemouth Square
Lansdowne, Rail Station
70 morebus West Cliff - Alum Chine - Branksome Chine - Canford Cliffs - Lilliput - Whitecliff - Poole every hour Bournemouth Square
East Cliff
m1 morebus Westbourne - Branksome - Lower Parkstone - Longfleet - Poole up to every 3/4 minutes (m1/m2 combined) Bournemouth Square
m2 Westbourne - Branksome - Upper Parkstone - Longfleet - Poole
m1 Lansdowne - Rail Station - Charminster - Broadway - Castlepoint up to every 7/8 minutes
m2 Lansdowne - Boscombe - Pokesdown - Southbourne up to every 7/8 minutes
X1 morebus Lansdowne - Hospital - Iford - Fairmile - Christchurch - Highcliffe-on-Sea - Barton on Sea - New Milton - Milford on Sea - Everton - Lymington up to every 30 minutes (X1/X2 combined), 4 departures on Sunday only Westover Road
X2 morebus Lansdowne - Hospital - Iford - Fairmile - Christchurch - Highcliffe-on-Sea - New Milton - Pennington - Lymington
X3 morebus Lansdowne - Boscombe - Hospital - Ringwood - Fordingbridge - Charlton - Salisbury up to every 30 minutes
X6 morebus Lansdowne - Hospital - Ringwood - Verwood - Three Legged Cross - West Moors - Tricketts Cross - Ferndown - West Howe - Alderney - Longfleet - Poole approximately once per hour on weekdays, 3 departures on Sunday to Ferndown only

Most of the routes which has a destination of Bournemouth have its terminus at either Bournemouth Square or Westover Road. Exceptions include Yellow Buses route 1, which its short workings to Bournemouth terminates at The Triangle; Yellow Buses route 11, with Bournemouth Pier as its terminus; Purbeck Breezer route 50 at Bournemouth station and Purbeck Breezer route 70 at East Cliff. And among all routes serving Bournemouth, only routes 11, 20 and 36 do not have a stop at either Bournemouth Square or Westover Road, with 11 only serving Bournemouth Pier, 20 and 36 serving Bourne Avenue.

For routes travelling through Gervis Place in westbound direction, Yellow Buses routes call at Westover Road before stopping at Bournemouth Square, with the exception of route 18, but morebus routes do not stop there. Eastbound direction, Yellow Buses routes call at Odeon bh2 as an alighting-only stop on Exeter Road before calling at Bournemouth Square, but morebus routes do not stop there.

Routes from Bournemouth Square / Westover Road to Lansdowne, morebus routes use Hinton Road, and Yellow Buses routes make a detour through St. Peter's Road and Old Christchurch Road until Lansdowne roundabout before 20:00 and uses Hinton Road only after 20:00, with the exception of route 6 which uses it all day. Routes which serve East Cliff instead of Lansdowne, including 12 and 33, always use Hinton Road to access East Cliff.

Buses terminating at Bournemouth town centre turns around in the following ways:

  • 1/32: Turning at The Triangle, serving Bournemouth Square both bounds.
  • 1a/1b/5/5a: Run on Bath Road near Bournemouth Pier westbound, terminating at Bournemouth Square eastbound, and head for St. Peter's Road (daytime) / Hinton Road (evening) for Lansdowne.
  • 2/737: Run on Westover Road westbound, terminating there, and turn back to St. Peter's Road (daytime) / Hinton Road (evening) for Lansdowne.
  • 4/6: Run on Bath Road near Bournemouth Pier westbound, calls at the Odeon bh2 alighting-only stop, runs non-stop through Gervis Place eastbound, Hinton Road, and terminates at Westover Road. Departing there, head for St. Peter's Road (route 4 daytime) / Hinton Road (evening / route 6 all day) for Lansdowne.
  • 4a: from Richmond Hill roundabout, terminates at Bourne Square (Bourne Avenue). After departing from the terminus, serves The Triangle, Bournemouth Pier, Westover Road and St. Peter's Road then returns at Richmond Hill roundabout.
  • 11: Terminates and turns back at Bournemouth Pier, does not serve Bournemouth Square / Westover Road
  • 13/33: Runs on Westover Road westbound (non-stop for 13, stopping there for 33) and terminates at Bournemouth Square westbound. After departing from the terminus, runs on Bath Road eastbound, serving Bournemouth Pier and head for Lansdowne through Bath Road (the school day departure of route 33 from Alum Chine serves the eastbound stop at Bournemouth Square instead of westbound and does not call at Bournemouth Pier)
  • 16/17: Through service, directly traverse Gervis Place both bounds without turning back.
  • 18: Calls at Bournemouth Square eastbound as an alighting-only stop, then run non-stop through the loop of Hinton Road and Westover Road, and terminates at Bournemouth Square westbound.
  • X1/X2/X3/X6: Run on Westover Road westbound, terminating there, and turn back to Hinton Road for Lansdowne.
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