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We are so lucky where we live that it's possible to have walks from our front door. Last Monday I decided to take a wandering one towards the clifftop at Barton on Sea, selecting roads that I wouldn't usually tread to reach my goal of a view of the sea. Starting from our house (next to the cottage), the route took me out to the main New Milton road (Station Road) and then across to the Lymington R...

It was time for a walk today down Inglewood Drive and out of the town, heading east into the sweeping fields and ancient woodlands on the edge of the New Forest, stopping at a hidden graveyard & even having a singsong on our way! Although the cottage is in a small town, it's full of pathways that take you quickly out to the countryside. We crossed Caird Avenue at the bottom of the cottage's ro...

In these uncertain and indeed stressful times, take a walk with me through the avenues of New Milton down to the clifftop and back through the maze of roads in Barton on Sea. Along the way the route offers tree-lined avenues, traditional seaside bungalows, houses from the 1930s and earlier, and new builds scattered unobtrusively amongst all the history. I begin from outside the cottage on Inglewoo...