A New Forest Walk - Ashurst to Brockenhurst
A new version with added commentary. This clip has been made to accompany a text-only guide at as part of the h2g2 AViators project.
Ashdown Forest - fantastic places to places to stay, eat and visit! http://www.ashdownforest.com
The beautiful Ashdown Forest is a fantastic holiday destination for a day out, weekend break or longer stay. Located in SE England on Kent/Sussex borders there are fab places to stay from mobile camper vans and glamping to 4* hotels, great places to eat from cafes to Egon Ronay restaurants and loads of exciting things to do including National Trust properties, walking, Garden Centres, Farm Shops, climbing, crafts, sailing, fishing, bushcraft, childrens parties. Ashdown Forest is so much more than a walk in the country! Visit our website for more information including our 'Whats On' guide showing loads of local events each month.
Hollands Wood Camping in the Forest Site
Just a ten minute stroll away is Brockenhurst village with an abundance of pubs, banks, shops and restaurants. The campsite also has direct access to the forest via its numerous walking and cycle paths, and is within easy reach of the popular and expansive picnic site of Balmer Lawn next to the Lymington River, perfect for a dreamy lunch next to an enchanting waterway - where wildlife is abundant.
From April to September, New Forest rivers and streams are home to many different species of beautiful, multi coloured dragonflies and damselflies. Twenty species of fish are present in New Forest waterways, ranging from eels and pike to brown trout. The expansive green areas next to the waterways are known as lawns and were formed during times of flood, where the water overflowed the banks and deposited minerals that enriched the soil to sustain grass.
This is an extremely family-friendly campsite and popular with families, groups and young people alike; it is therefore advisable to book in advance during high season to avoid disappointment.
New Forest Country Walk - Brockenhurst-Rhinefield-Brock Hill-Bolderford Bridge round
Our video is a guided walk in the New Forest in Hampshire. We start in Brockenhurst near the Snakecatcher pub and walk down Brookley Road through the main shopping area then head to Rhinefield Road. We turn off the road and walk to Brock Hill then make our way to Bolderford Bridge where we turn left and follow the river on our right back to Brockenhurst. This is a beautiful walk and we see lots of roaming forest ponies and wild deer. This is an easy to moderate walk on mainly good tracks with some forest road. There are only slight inclines and declines but the last part of the walk by Lymington River is unlevel. Approx 10 miles allow 3 hours 30 minutes using OS Explorer Map 22 New Forest.Start point: The Snakecatcher pub next to the railway crossing on the A337 at Brockenhurst.
Camping in the Forest
There's simply nothing more enchanting than camping within the peace and quiet of a woodland setting.
You're not close to nature, you're part of it!
Previously known as Forest Holidays Caravanning and Camping, Camping in the Forest is the new name of the established partnership between the Forestry Commission and the Camping and Caravanning Club. It offers 19 secluded caravan and camping sites in some of the most beautiful woodland in the country.
The Brecks and Thetford Forest, Norfolk, UK
The Brecks and Thetford Forest are nature's playground, with the country's largest lowland pine forest to explore by foot or two wheels. Discover Pingos and Deal Rows and relax in the UK's best climate!
Highgate Cemetery
Music: Gloomy Sunday by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra
In the early decades of the nineteenth century London was facing a major crisis. Inadequate burial space along with a high mortality rate resulted in a serious problem - not enough room for the dead. Graveyards and burial grounds were crammed in between shops, houses and taverns, wherever there was space. In really bad situations undertakers, dressed as clergy, performed unauthorized and illegal burials. Bodies were wrapped in cheap material and buried amongst other human remains in graves just a few feet deep. Quicklime was often thrown over the body to help speed decomposition, so that within a few months the grave could be used again. The smell from these disease-ridden burial places was terrible. They were overcrowded, uncared for and neglected.
The cause of this situation was that in the early 1800s London had a population of just one million people. In the following years the population had increased rapidly and the death rate along with it. Very little new burial space had been put aside to cater for the growing numbers and by the early 1830s the authorities were stating that for public health reasons something had to be done.
Parliament passed a statute to the effect that seven new private cemeteries should be opened in the countryside around the capital for the burial of London's dead. These cemeteries were Kensal Green 1833, West Norwood 1836, Highgate 1839, Abney Park 1840, Brompton 1840, Nunhead 1840 and Tower Hamlets 1841.
In 1836 an Act of Parliament was passed creating The London Cemetery Company. Stephen Geary, an architect and the company's founder, appointed James Bunstone Bunning as surveyor and David Ramsey, renowned garden designer as the landscape architect. A head office was opened at 22 Moorgate Street, London.
The sum of £3,500 was paid for seventeen acres of land that had been the grounds of the Ashurst Estate, descending the steep hillside from Highgate Village. Over the next three years the cemetery was landscaped to brilliant effect by Ramsey with exotic formal planting, complimented by the stunning and unique architecture of both Geary and Bunning. It was this combination that was to secure Highgate as the capital's principal cemetery.
The unparalleled elevation overlooking London, rising to 375' above sea level at its highest point, along with its unique architecture, meant that the wealthy would be encouraged to invest. The millionaire newspaper owner Julius Beer, was one such investor who built the most cemetery's impressive monument to his eight year old daughter Ada.
Two chapels, Church of England and Dissenters, were housed within one building, built in the Tudor style, topped with wooden turrets and a central bell tower. Beneath the bell-tower remains an archway linking the two conflicting religious ideals of each denomination and denoting the lack of partiality of the London Cemetery Company. The archway also gave an imposing entry to the Cemetery.
In the heart of the grounds was created the Egyptian Avenue, an eccentric structure consisting of sixteen vaults on either side of a broad passageway, entered via a great arch. These vaults were fitted with shelves for twelve coffins and were each purchased by individual families for their sole use. This avenue then lead to the Circle of Lebanon which was built in the same style and consisted of twenty vaults on the inner circle with a further sixteen added in the 1870s, built in the classical style which had then returned to fashion. The Circle was created by earth being excavated around an ancient Cedar of Lebanon, a legacy of the Ashurst Estate and was used to great visual effect by the cemetery's designers. Above this, a separate gothic styled catacomb, named the Terrace Catacombs due to its position on the site of the earlier terrace of Ashurst House, was completed in 1842. This was built with an impressive eighty yard frontage and room for a total of eight hundred and twenty-five people in fifty-five vaults of fifteeen loculi each, each loculus being sold individually to house one coffin. These were typical of the fashion for above ground burial.
Highgate attracted a varied clientele and over the next twenty years became one of the capital's most fashionable cemeteries. In 1854 the London Cemetery Company was so profitable that the cemetery was extended by a further twenty acres on the other side of its Swain's Lane site. This new ground, now known as the East Cemetery, was opened in 1856. A tunnel beneath Swain's Lane connected the new ground with the Church of England chapel in the older (West) side. With the aid of a hydraulic lift, coffins would descend into the tunnel and remain on cemetery ground for their passage to the other half of the cemetery.
New Forest Walking: Brockenhurst Circular Walk via Setley Pond 13 October 2012
A 6.5 mile circular walk from Brockenhurst station via Setley Pond. The first part of the walk was through woods and fields, the latter part of the walk went across typical New Forest heathland. Much of the ground was very wet from the recent heavy rainfall. the walk took place in sunny weather on Saturday 13 October 2012.
Brockenhurst, New Forest
Pictures from Brockenhurst with entirely non-matching soundtrack.
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