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Dist:0.2km<br/>Camellias and other shrubs hide most of the houses from the road. On Nineteenth Century mapping the road name is shown as "Wind Whistle" rather than the modern "Whinwhistle".
©David Martin
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.3km<br/>The A36 at its junction with Black Hill Road. Turn left and you hit a cattle grid denoting the New Forest boundary. The A36 is a 'dangerous road'. It's nothing to do with dangerous driving - it's the road. I waited ages for this 'no car' shot, and pedalled away from the A36 asap.
©Kevin Jenkin
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.4km<br/>National Trust Bramshaw Common by Blackhill Road
©Shaun Ferguson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Only 500m from the A36 and this narrow tongue of New Forest is already a world away from the rushing traffic.
©David Martin
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.6km<br/>Farm buildings viewed in evening light from Whinwhistle Road
©David Martin
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©Stuart Logan
Dist:0.8km<br/>Blackhill is one of the northernmost extents of the New Forest.
©Ron Strutt
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©Anonymous 4452
Dist:1.0km<br/>This is the western edge of Foxbury Plantation where it borders Half Moon Common, just east of the National Trust public car park. The National Trust has recently purchased Foxbury Plantation from the Longford Estate. Once the commercial timber in the plantation has been felled (over a 10 year period) the NT will restore the area to heathland and deciduous woodland, as it was in the past. Once the restoration is complete the area will be open to public access, as Half Moon Common is now.
©Jim Champion
Dist:1.0km<br/>A track to a farm lies beyond.
©Peter Facey
Dist:1.0km<br/>The National Trust bought Foxbury Plantation in 2005 and plans to create a 'mosaic of semi-natural habitats' once the conifer trees (planted shortly after the Second World War) have been harvested. The trees in this photo will cleared during phase 1 of the felling and the ground beneath will eventually be 'dry heath' to blend in with the dry heath on the other side of the fence. Eventually the fence will be removed and commoner's stock will be able to graze the new heathland. This scene should be very different in 10 years' time.
©Jim Champion
Dist:1.0km northwest<br/>The school buildings are to the left of this footpath.
©Peter Facey

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