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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

Two new pages this month in Burlesdon, Hampshire:

• Manor Farm and Country Park and
• The Burlesdon Brickworks Industrial Museum.

There is also a new gazetteer page for Hampshire covering Fort Gilkicker, Longbridge Mill and Bursledon Windmill

Elsewhere there is a section on the Eling page covering the Tide Mill and an article on the Yeovil Railway Centre in Somerset

Three Dorset castles also make an appearance:

• Sherborne Old Castle,
• Portland Castle and
• A gazetteer entry for Sandsfoot Castle.

Four new pages this month:

• The Sir Harold Hillier Gardens near Romsey, Hampshire,
• The Royal Navy Submarine Museum in Gosport, Hampshire,
• The East Somerset Railway at Cranmore in Somerset and
• A splendid walk along the seawall protecting the Keyhaven Lymington Nature Reserve.

There are also some photos from this year's Wimborne Folk Festival and an update to the Upton Park stroll in Dorset as the council are installing a play trail.

New this month is a walk along the magnificent Jurassic Coast to White Nothe above Ringstead Bay in Dorset, and another along the foreshore between Hamble-le-Rice and Warsash in Hampshire.

Also some gazetteer entries for Woolbridge Manor and Creech Manor in Dorset

Three Dorset memorials now have a page, and there is an entry for Eversley Bench in the New Forest, Hampshire.

Flower's Barrow, an Iron Age hill fort on the coast in Dorset, also has a new page.

Also new this month, a couple of places on the Longleat Estate in Wiltshire: Shearwater Lake and Heaven's Gate.

New this month are three gazetteer articles in the Dorset Curiosities section.

• Cranborne Castle,
• Jordan Hill Roman Temple and
• The Osmington White Horse.

Bit late getting the update out this month. Sorry.

Lots of new photos in the pipeline, but only one new article on Old Sarum outside Salisbury in Wiltshire.

This also includes some photos of the stone marking the start of Mudge's Line, one of the base lines of the first Ordnance Survey.

Not really the weather for photography, unless you like photographing rain. However there are a couple of new gazetteer entries on:

• The Radnor Stone and
• The Knightwood Oak

Both in the New Forest, Hampshire.

Only one new article this month on the Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon/Blaenafon, South Wales.

New this month are a couple of short gazetteer items both on the western edge of the New Forest in Hampshire:

• The remains of a Huff Duff and
• The pretty little disc barrow known as Robin Hood's Clump.

I have extensively revised and fully documented the walk in Wilverley Inclosure in the New Forest, and there is also an article on Monkey World the ape rescue centre in Dorset.

May I wish you all a Merry Christmas and let's hope for a more prosperous New Year.

Only one new page this month on the City of Caves and Galleries of Justice in Nottingham.

However, under the bonnet, a lot has been going on to make the site 'responsive' and easier to use on mobile and tablet devices.

New for this month are some photos from my old stomping ground of Devizes in Wiltshire and of the surrounding area. These are:

• A gazetter for Devizes itself, with a separate page for the Wadworth Brewery
• A page for Avebury, its Stone Circle and Manor, and
• A gallery of rather grey photos of Urchfont.