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Four short gazetteer entries to kick this month off:

• The rotting hulk of the PS Ryde on the Isle of Wight,
• The Greyladyes Masoleum in Bursledon, Hampshire.
• Llandovery Castle in Cardiganshire and
• The Rydym ni yma o hyd Sculptures in deepest Ceredigion.

Followed by three places in Ceridigion, Wales:

• Aberystwyth its Castle and Cliff Railway,
• Devil's Bridge and its waterfalls, and connecting the two
• The Vale of Rheildol Railway.

New this month:

• Stansted Park on the borders of West Sussex and Hampshire,
• Boxgrove Priory also in Sussex and
• Dolaucothi Gold Mines in Carmarthenshire, West Wales.

New this month: the Isle of Wight Bus & Coach Museum.

Together with three places in the Petworth area of Sussex:

• The interesting Coultershaw Heritage Site and Beam Pump,
• Burton Mill which is being restored and
• The tiny curch of St Mary the Virgin, Upwaltham,

And two in South Wales:

• The Brecon Mountain Railway and
• Some photos of Cardiff Bay.

New for this month Petworth House in Sussex.

Also two short items on the nearby Cocking History Column and the Duncton Viewpoint.

Just two places this month both in Sussex:

• An article and lots of photos of West Dean Gardens and
• A gallery of photos taken around West Itchenor.

Only one article this month, Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire as sorting through the old negatives is taking a lot of my time.

Only two short articles this month, as I have started on the long process of getting all my negatives scanned. They are on:

• St Johns Church, Farley Chamberlayne and the nearby
• Farley Mount obelisk.

Just two new pages this month: a snowy walk around Butser Hill in Hampshire.

And, at long last, the Hospital of St Cross in Winchester, which I visited back in November.

Happy New Year everyone.

New this month (and year, for that matter) are the final two pages (for now anyway) in the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard section:

• The Mary Rose and
• Boathouse 4.

There are also some shots from the Portsmouth Boat Trip around the naval dockyard and the ferry fort that I took last summer.

To kick off this month a gallery of photos taken in Lower Swanwick, Hampshire.

Followed by the first of a number of pages on the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard:

• An introduction,
• HMS Victory,
• HMS M.33 and
• HMS Warrior.

Merry Christmas everybody.

New this month, two places in West Sussex:

• Bramber Castle and St Nicholas' Church and
• St Mary's Church, Sompting.

And three in Hampshire:

• Hockley Mill in Twyford,
• The City Mill in Winchester and
• The scant remains of Southwick Priory.

I've also revised the Hamble-le-Rice and Warsash walk. It now has full turn-by-turn directions, and there are short items on Hamble's well and the CEGB Fawley Tunnel.

New this month:

In Wiltshire, the abandoned village of Imber on Salisbury Plain, and the annual Imberbus run of London Routemasters.

And in Hampshire:

• Avington Park and St Mary’s Church, Avington,
• The pretty little Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Colemore,
• And the vast Holy Trinity Church, Privett.