FOR centuries the inhabitants of the parish of Hordle had attended their parish church situated not far from the cliff edge...
IT was during my explorations and researches into the notebooks of the Rev. Henry Comyn (1777-1851), compiled whilst he was curate of Boldre parish between…
THIS is a story where several quite disparate threads coalesce in a single place and that place is Newlands in the parish of Milford. It also occurred…
THE early New Forest churches are characterised by two qualities: the first is that the sites chosen tended to be on elevated mounds or ridges and the…
EVERYONE who bathes from our local beaches is well aware of the saltiness of the sea water and the Bible tells of the extreme saltiness of the “Sea of…
THE parish church is very often the oldest physical man-made structure surviving within a parish. For all the pre-Reformation centuries it was the centre for worship, instruction and social interaction and it was the place where the life’s rites of passage were made and confirmed...
THERE is a long story behind our guide books based, I suppose, on a natural human desire to describe to others the objects of beauty and of interest in…
BY the latter years of the 19th century Bournemouth had become a town and resort of national repute. During the summer various hotels were involved in…
