News

New this month, two places in Sherborne in Dorset:

• Sherborne Castle (the new one) and
• Sherborne Abbey

A new page for the Purbeck Mineral and Mining Museum next to the Swanage Railway's Norden station.

And a couple of places in Somerset

• Lytes Cary and
• The Treasurer's House in Martock.

Also a new walk from Edmondsham to Cranborne Castle in Dorset.

New for this month are two places in Wiltshire:

• Salisbury Cathedral, including brief details on the Close and Mompesson House, and
• Crofton Beam Engines.

And a long page on the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum near Singleton in Sussex

New this month, four places in Stockbridge area of Hampshire:

• Danebury Hill Fort,
• The peaceful Houghton Lodge Gardens,
• The Museum of Army Flying in nearby Middle Wallop and
• Mottisfont Abbey.

And three Lawrence of Arabia related pages in Dorset:

• His home, Clouds Hill near Bovington,
• Moreton where he is buried and which has an interesting church with engraved glass windows by Laurence Whistler, and
• St Martin on the Wall, the little Saxon church in Wareham that is now home to his effigy.

New this month:

• A page on Stonehenge in Wiltshire and its splendid new Visitor Centre. It also covers the Airmen's Cross and nearby Woodhenge.
• I've updated my Winspit and Worth Matravers stroll to include full turn by turn directions, sections on Winspit and Seacombe Quarries, and St Nicholas' Church, Worth Matravers.
• I've added two new pages on Corfe Castle in Dorset. One on the castle itself, and one on the railway station.
• Also a page on St John the Baptist Church, Bere Regis and its amazing roof.

New this month:

• Some photos of Badbury Rings in the snow we had this time last month,
• A very short entry on the Stops Hill Tunnel near Hindon in Wiltshire,
• A page on the Nothe Fort in Wemouth, Dorset, and
• Three short additions to the Breamore page on the Church, the Station and the Mill

New this month were short articles in Dorset on:

• The Old Lifeboat Station in Poole,
• The Fifehead Neville Packhorse Bridge,
• Tutton's Well in Mudeford and
• Poundbury Camp and the Roman Aquaduct outside Dorchester.

There are also some new entries in the New Forest for:

• St Mary's, Hale,
• East Boldre Village Hall,
• Leadenhall Bomb Target,
• RAF Lymington and
• The Control Tower at RAF Ibsley.

I have alse made some changes under the bonnet which, amongst other things, has allowed me to generate much more meaningful entries in the Subject Index.

New this month:

• A page covering various places on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, including the Admiralty Incline, Chiswell Walled Garden, the HMS Illustrious Liberty Boat Memorial, the Merchants' Railway and Tom the Torpedo.
• A couple of small Dorset churches: All Saints', Nether Cerne and the tiny St Edwold's, Stockwood.
• The Verne High Angle Battery also on Portland.

New for this month, three pages on Vienna, Austria:

• The Stadtpark and its station,
• The Donauturm (Danube Tower) and
• A gazetteer of various other sights.

New this month: A page on St Aldhelm's Head on the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset and some notes on four more Dorset Memorials:

• Mary Baxter,
• The USCG Rescue Flotilla 1 and
• The Creech Barrow Seven
• The crashed Moordown Halifax

There are also notes on three more New Forest memorials:

• The New Forest Airfields Memorial,
• The Needs Oar Airfield Memorial and
• The Samuel Carter Memorial.

Just some pages in Hampshire this month:

• The splendid Titchfield Abbey,
• The peaceful Bishop's Waltham Palace and
• The impressive Portchester Castle.

Kicking this month off are the last three pages from my trip to the Isle of Wight:

• Carisbrooke Castle,
• Osborne House and
• The Fort Victoria Country Park.

Next, the pretty little church of St John the Baptist, Boldre in the New Forest.

Followed by the, almost magical, Wolfeton House, or should that be Wolveton House, outside Dorchester.

And bringing up the rear, the D-Day remains at the Lepe Country Park.

First up this month a new article on Lulworth Castle and St Mary's Chapel in Dorset. Also some shots of the Swanage Railway's 35 Gala
(Mar 2015: N.B. No longer a separate gallery. Combined with other photos).

Next, not to be confused Whitchurch and Whitcombe. Whitchurch is not a church, it's a Silk Mill, and very fine it is too. Whitcombe on the other hand is a church with some interesting wall paintings.

Followed by Twyford Waterworks in Hampshire, a must for fans of industrial history, and Hollycombe Working Steam Museum on the Hampshire/Sussex border.

Also some places on the Isle of Wight with pages on:

• The Island Line,
• Bembridge and Culver Downs and
• Bembridge Lifeboat Station