Kinson nearly became part of Poole in 1931; however, a vigorous campaign by the residents saw the parish added to Bournemouth instead, necessitating an adjustment to the Hampshire/Dorset county boundary, which had separated the two areas.

[5] Nearby is Kinson Common, a Local Nature Reserve[6] and Site of Special Scientific Interest,[7] and the historic St Andrew's Church, a grade B listed building[8] and the resting place of Frederick Ponsonby.

An 1843 tithe map, held at the Dorset County Records Office, shows that the land then formed part of Howe Farm.

Since 1933 the local authority purchased a number of parcels of land (mostly from Viscount Wimborne) for the purposes of Kinson Cemetery and as public open space.

[10] This could either be a topographical feature, as the gravel terraces along the south of the River Stour have been carved into rounded promontories by small rills and streams; but 'howe' could also refer to the various burial mounds which formerly covered the slopes.

The area was historically used by the smuggler Isaac Gulliver whose men would carry the contraband up from The Chines in Poole Bay and take it across Cranborne Chase to be distributed to patrons all over Southern England.

The presence of this grave openly in the churchyard, with its rhyming elegy to the deceased, is an interesting comment on the social status at the time of people who were technically criminals.

In the early years of the twentieth century this was a ford, and while travelling by carriage from Canford House to Highcliffe Castle the future Kaiser of Germany became bogged in the water and had to be rescued by the locals.

Ada's sister-in-law Isabella Russell was the grandmother of Agnes Sybil Thorndike, the actress, who spent several childhood holidays at Kinson.