Laundry & Dry Cleaning Collection in Walkford, Christchurch

Walkford is a suburb at the eastern edge of Christchurch, in the Highcliffe & Walkford ward, BH23 5, where Dorset meets the Hampshire parish of New Milton. The name was first recorded as “Walkeforde” in the 15th century, in connection with Milton parish to the east, and probably meant a crossing over the Chewton stream, now called the Walkford Brook. A settlement called Walkford is only noted from the late 19th century, and most of it was built in the early-to-mid 20th century, so it is mainly a place of homes, with two pubs, a village shop and a B&B. This page covers both the home basket and the business one.

Where in Walkford we collect

We cover all of Walkford across BH23 5: Ringwood Road and Walkford Road, Walkford Way, Chewton Common Road and Chewton Farm Road, Amberwood Drive, Marlpit Drive, Braemar Drive, Highland Avenue, Tresillian Way, Greenways and the closes off them. Highcliffe, Barton on Sea and Old Milton are on the same round, so an address on either side of the county boundary is covered too.

Walkford is edged with woodland: Chewton Common and Marlpit Copse lie on its western side, and the wooded chine of Chewton Bunny runs down to the sea to the south. It shares a parish council with Highcliffe. Television fans may know one of its streets: from the second series of One Foot in the Grave, the outside of the Meldrews’ house was filmed on Tresillian Way.

What gets collected most around here

From homes it is the everyday wash — clothes, towels and bed linen, washed, dried and folded — with the things that should not go in a washing machine added to the same collection: winter coats, suits, dresses, silk and wool. Those are dry cleaned separately and come back on hangers, so there is no separate drive to a dry cleaner in Christchurch or New Milton.

For the two pubs, the cafés and the B&Bs around Walkford it is table linen, tea towels, bar towels, aprons and guest bedding, collected on a fixed day each week and returned washed and folded. Households book through the same form as the rest of our Christchurch service, and businesses can ask for commercial rates before the first collection.