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New Forest Holiday Day 4 : Ashley Walk : 29th June  2011 It was our last day in the New Forest so we decided to go for one last long walk over the heath. We settled on Ashley Walk / Pitts Wood. It was a hot day again and we did not really want to get too exhausted in the morning heat because we had…

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New Forest Holiday Day 3 : Keyhaven: 28th June  2011 On the afternoon of the third day of our New Forest Holiday we decided to head for the coast and go to Keyhaven near Lymington. We drove to the parking place at the end of Hurst Beach and then we walked the length of the causeway out to Hurst Castle.  As we walked past the…

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New Forest Holiday Day 3 : Beaulieu Road / Shatterford Bottom  : 28th June  2011 On the third day of our New Forest break we decided to return to Beaulieu Road / Shatterford Bottom  that we had reccied on our first day. Again it was a very hot day and instead of walking into Denny Wood we decided to do the whole circuit and turned…

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New Forest Holiday Day 2 : Bucklers Hard and the Beaulieu River : 27th June  2011 For a change of location we decided to try a boat trip so we headed off for the “historic village” of Bucklers Hard, once a naval shipbuilding dockyard where many of Nelson’s ships, including some that fought at the Battle of Trafalgar, were built. We had a quick look…

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New Forest Holiday Day 2 : Acres Down and Bolderwood  : 27th June  2011 Our guidebook “Where To Watch Birds in Britain” by Simon Harrap and Nigel Redman suggested that this was “probably the best site in the New Forest for Watching raptors” so we were looking forward to some exciting birding. We followed the rather good driving instructions in our guide book and parked…

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New Forest Holiday Day 1 : Beaulieu Road / Shatterford Bottom  : 26th June  2011 We arrived at East Boldre from Montacute by early afternoon. We were booked in at the Turfcutters Arms for three nights and this was to be our base for various outings into the New Forest. The room we had was a bit basic but it was close to everything and…

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Journey from Montacute (Somerset) to East Boldre (Hampshire)  : 26th June  2011 We had met up with some of the guests and the hosts of the wedding we attended in Montacute on Friday again on the Saturday night and they suggested that we should  take a scenic route to the New Forest rather than the main roads and we followed recommendations by heading in Yeovil…

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