Winter Woodland Lights 🦉
🗓️ 16 January – 1 February 2026
Take a walk through the seasons with the magical woodland walk and owl flying display of the Hawk Conservancy Trust’s Winter Woodland Lights from 16 January – 1 February 2026.
📷 Boobook owl
Looking for something to do that has:
🚁 Aircraft, 🚗 Cars, 🏍️ Motorcycles, 🍔 Food, 🎶 Music, 🎤 Talks and more…..
WALLOP WHEELS & WINGS
🗓️ Saturday 12 July 2025
📍 Army Flying Museum, Middle Wallop, SO23 8FB
🎟️ see Army Flying Museum website & social media for details
#AirShow #WallopWheelsAndWings
The #rose season has started early this year. The perfect time to see the famous rose garden at NT Mottisfont is now. 🌹
Good luck to Hampshire singers @remembermonday.bsky.social #Eurovision
Fabulous windows at the parish church of St John the Baptist, Boldre. The stained glass window in the 13th century porch depicts St Nicholas. A much newer Millennium Window was engraved by Tracey Sheppard and it shows beautiful scenes of the church with rivers, flora and fauna. #StainedGlassSunday
Can’t miss these bright yellow oilseed rape fields near RAF Odiham.
#OilseedRape #RAFOdiham #InsideHampshire #Yellow #Fields
Celebrate 185 years since the completion of London-Southampton railway and the opening of Micheldever Station (originally called Andover Road)
🎂 It also marks 200 years of railways
Activities, exhibitions and walks.
🗓️ 10 and 11 May
📍 SO21 3AR
#MicheldeverStation #Railways
Passed by Micheldever station and just had to take a closer look at the fabulous mural by Sian Storey celebrating local wildlife. The vibrant scene is called 'Our Rural Landscape' #Micheldever #StreetArt #Hampshire
The blossom 🌸 is looking stunning at Hinton Ampner - National Trust.
#Blossom #CherryBlossom #HintonAmpner #NationalTrust
Appreciating our local amazing oaks. They should be treasured. This is part of the magnificent Oakley Oak, Mottisfont. It's a pedunculate oak and over 800 years old. #ThickTrunkTuesday
The gorse in the forest is looking great at the moment. This shock of yellow is on a tumuli near Marchwood Inclosure car park - SO45 5TJ. Great views from the top!
Not your normal blue plaque! This one's on Plestor House, opposite Gilbert White's House in Selborne. It's for Sullivan Black, ‘Libertine, opium-eater, drunkard, duellist, gambler, and wastrel' and the fun character has a name that has uncanny links with the real man that lived opposite.
The Round Table hangs in the far end of The Great Hall which is all that remains of #Winchester Castle. The Round table is linked with the legend of #KingArthur.
The castle was built in 1067 & the hall, built during the reign of King Henry III, is one of the finest medieval halls in the country.
The Retrochoir medieval tile pavement at @wincathedral.bsky.social Many are from the 13th century and are of international value. The pavement is one of the most significant examples in-situ medieval tiles in Europe. The tiles have a variety of repeating patterns and examples of Wessex designs.
If you’re visiting Winchester Cathedral, don’t forget to visit The Crypt.
It’s a beautiful setting for Antony Gormley’s life-size sculpture Sound II. Depending on the weather, the sculpture could be surrounded by water, giving fantastic reflections. The statue was installed in 1986.
#AntonyGormley
Wildlife watching at the river hide.
#BeaulieuRiver #BucklersHard
This is final week to apply to our Schools Competition! Students from secondary schools & universities are eligible & we’d love to hear from you!
Projects can be in different forms: writing, films, recording, posters ✏️ 🎥 🎙️🎨
Find out more here: hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/news/educati...
#ThrowbackThursday to 2012 and The Hawk Conservancy Trust, Andover, challenged local businesses to get directly involved in bird of prey conservation by participating in the ‘Nest Box Challenge’ event to support wild Kestrels.
📷 Chris Packham with Kestrel
#Kestrel #HawkConservancyTrust #Hampshire
2 weeks to go until our webinar about Jane Austen and the Magazines by Professor Jennie Batchelor of University of York 🥳
📍Zoom
🗓️ Wed 19th March
⏰ 7pm
Register here: hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/jane-...
If you’re interested in #WomensHistory & #Hampshire do join us 😃
#WomensHistoryMonth
The Moon 🌙 and Venus as the Sun sets in the New Forest.
#NewForest #Sunset #Moon #Venus #Planets #NightSky
The layout of the carpenter's cabin, with two chests on the floor, and tables covered in original tools, as well as a lantern hanging from the ceiling. the words "Carpenters' Cabin" is written in front of the entrance.
On our Main Deck gallery, set up as a mirror image of the ship, you can see the carpenter's cabin as it would have been in 1545.
Well, minus the walls - they would make it much harder to see all his stuff inside!
Introducing Stilton the Steppe Eagle!
🦅 He's a very chatty chap, so make sure you swing by his aviary to say hello on your next visit.
🌍 Steppe Eagles are an Endangered species of bird of prey, and sadly it's estimated that populations have declined by around 60% since 2010.
Brass memorial plaque honouring Hampshire author Jane Austen.
It can be found on the wall near her tomb in Winchester Cathedral.
This year is a significant one for Jane Austen fans as it marks 250 years since her birth.
#JaneAusten #WinchesterCathedral
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The awesome size of the giant sequoias on The Tall Trees Trail from Blackwater car park.
They're the largest trees in the New Forest, weigh over 100 tonnes and are still growing!
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Hampshire #NewForest #GiantSequoia #TallTrees
Down this narrow alley in Winchester is the Royal Oak pub.
It’s thought to be the oldest pub in England and was a ‘brewhouse’ by at least 1637.
Parts of the site may date as far back as 1002. It’s Grade II listed.
#RoyalOak #Winchester #Pub #History
Who else has enjoyed the beauty of the New Forest this #halfterm ?
#NewForest #TallTrees #InsideHampshire
Westgate Museum in Winchester has the unusual claim to fame of being inside a fortified medieval city gateway. Inside you can see Tudor and Stuart history, plus graffiti from when the building was a debtors' prison from the 16th-18th centuries. #WallsOnWednesday #Hampshire
