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An Inventory of Churchyard Yews Along the Hampshire Test and Its Tributaries
Hampshire Yews An Inventory of Churchyard Yews along the Hampshire Test and its tributaries Part 3 – The Lower Test By Peter Norton Introduction: The Test rises at Ashe, just to the west of Basingstoke and on its way through Hampshire is fed from many streams and brooks emanating from the west and one main stream from the east. After flowing through Stockbridge and Romsey, it converges in Southampton with the Itchen some 40 miles from its source. At this point it becomes Southampton Water which flows into the Solent before reaching the open sea. The west tributaries include the Bourne Rivulet, Anton, Wallop Brook, Dun, Blackwater and Bartley Water. The east tributaries include the Dever, Tadburn and Tanners Brook. The Lower Test This is the last of three reports that split the River Test into three sections; Upper, Middle and Lower. The Lower Test is described as from just north of Romsey to its confluence with the Itchen, covering a distance of some 12 miles by road. Along its path it is joined by the Tadburn, Blackwater, Bartley Water and Tanners Brook. All of the towns and villages along this part of the Test and its tributaries were included, with 18 churches visited, of which 12 contained yews. All churches are in Hampshire unless otherwise stated. Of the 26 yews noted at these sites, 11 had measurements recorded. The graph below groups the measured yews ac- cording to their girth, presented here in metric form. It does not include yews whose girth was estimated*. Where a tree has been measured at different heights, the measurement taken closest to the root/ground is used for this graph. -
New Forest Wetland Management Plan 2006
LIFE 02 NAT/UK/8544 New Forest Wetland Management Plan Plate 1 Dry stream bed of Fletchers Brook - August 2005 3.18 LIFE 02 NAT/UK/8544 New Forest Wetland Management Plan Table 3-8: Flow Statistics Lymington Hampshire Avon (R. Lymington Tributaries at Brockenhurst) (Dockens Water) Catchment Size 98.9 km2 17.15 km2 Permeability Mixed permeability Low to Mixed permeability Mean Annual rainfall (1961-90) 854 mm 831 mm Elevation 8.4-117.7m - Mean flow 1.06 m3s-1 0.26 m3s-1 95% exceedance (Q95) 0.052 m3s-1 0.047 m3s-1 10% exceedance (Q10) 2.816 m3s-1 0.592 m3s-1 Source: Centre of Ecology & Hydrology 3.4.5 Flow patterns Flow patterns are characterised by glides (slow flowing water), riffles (medium flowing water) and runs (fast flowing water). Life 3 studies in the Blackwater and Highland Water sub-catchments found that glides tend be to the most common form of flow followed by riffles and runs. Pools (still water) are noticeably rare in modified reaches being replaced by glides or runs. Pools where they occur are usually found at meander bends apices. Cascades and small water falls also occur at the faces of debris dams. Channelisation tends to affect the flow type in that it reduces the number of pools. Dominant flow types for the Highland Water and Black Water are shown in Figure 10. It is probable that a similar pattern would be found in the other river catchments. 3.4.6 Bank & bed material Bank material is made up of clay, fines, sand and gravel. -
The Eling Experience PROJECT News April 2017 Elingexperience.Co.Uk
The Eling Experience PROJECT news April 2017 elingexperience.co.uk Artist’s impressions of the new mill and visitor centre interiors (above and below) Update Extension The Grade II* listed Eling Tide Mill, our clerk of works, who will be one of only two of its kind in the overseeing the site for NFDC. country, is a precious part of the We aim to reopen the Eling New Forest’s heritage. In common Experience in March 2018. with many historical renovations, the project to restore and improve Work on site the mill, adjacent visitor centre Several of the remaining parts of and surrounding open spaces has the project will start in May this year. Once the visitor centre extension is proved to be a complex one. Colin nearing completion later in the year Read, who is leading the project for We will begin the improvement to the new exhibition will be installed. New Forest District Council, said: the natural areas around the Eling Both the visitor centre and tide Tide Mill, including enhancing mill will have interactive activities “The project has suffered some access to Goatee Beach and introducing visitors to how the mill delays. We have taken time to fully Bartley Water, installing boardwalks works and even allowing them to understand the complexities and and providing visitor information try their hand at milling flour. get the right specialists involved. boards about the natural habitat I am pleased to say that we will and wildlife. Contractors be awarding contracts, including Meanwhile work will start on the External works: Herbert H Drew Ltd to a number of Hampshire-based Visitor centre extension: Brymor Ltd companies, for the remaining extension to the visitor centre to Mill renovation: HP Contracts aspects of the project in the next house a new larger café. -
SANITARY SURVEY REPORT the Solent 2013
EC Regulation 854/2004 CLASSIFICATION OF BIVALVE MOLLUSC PRODUCTION AREAS IN ENGLAND AND WALES SANITARY SURVEY REPORT The Solent 2013 SANITARY SURVEY REPORT SOLENT Cover photo: Oyster sampling in the Solent CONTACTS: For enquires relating to this report or For enquires relating to policy matters on further information on the the implementation of sanitary surveys in implementation of sanitary surveys in England: England and Wales: Simon Kershaw Beverley Küster Food Safety Group Hygiene Delivery Branch Cefas Weymouth Laboratory Enforcement and Delivery Division Barrack Road, Food Standards Agency The Nothe Aviation House Weymouth 125 Kingsway Dorset London DT43 8UB WC2B 6NH +44 (0) 1305 206600 +44 (0) 20 7276 8000 [email protected] [email protected] © Crown copyright, 2013. Native oysters and other bivalve species in the Solent 2 SANITARY SURVEY REPORT SOLENT STATEMENT OF USE: This report provides a sanitary survey for bivalve molluscs in the Solent, as required under EC Regulation 854/2004. It provides an appropriate hygiene classification zoning and monitoring plan based on the best available information with detailed supporting evidence. The Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas) undertook this work on behalf of the Food Standards Agency (FSA). CONSULTATION: Consultee Date of consultation Date of response Environment Agency 19/04/2013 - Isle of Wight Council 19/04/2013 - New Forest District Council 19/04/2013 - Portsmouth Port Health 19/04/2013 - Southampton Port Health 19/04/2013 - Southern IFCA 19/04/2013 21/05/2013 Southern Water 19/04/2013 - RECOMMENDED BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Cefas, 2013. Sanitary survey of the Solent. Cefas report on behalf of the Food Standards Agency, to demonstrate compliance with the requirements for classification of bivalve mollusc production areas in England and Wales under of EC Regulation No. -
Newsletter Chairman’S Column in This Issue May Meeting Chair A S Colu
May 2017 Southampton Canal Society Issue 532 Newsletter Chairman’s Column In this issue May Meeting Chairas Colu ........................ 1 AS USUAL, NO MAY MEETING AS THE HALL IS IN USE FOR ELECTIONS Cotswold Canals Funding ............... 1 At last! We hope that spring and the sunshine will arrive soon, time to plan our holidays and days Celebrating Fifty Years ................... 1 out. Waterways Events .................. 2 & 3 June Meeting: Celebrating Fifty Years April Meeting ................................. 3 O Thursda st Jue e hope ou ill e ale to ejo the ruise o the Joh Pikerto o the Mikron Theatre Tour 2017 ............ 4 Basigstoke Caal. For ore iforatio, see Aelreds ite elo. HNBC Easter Gathering ................. 4 As a result of the cruise there will be NO evening meeting at Chilworth. July Meeting Cotswold Canals Funding This ill e the “outhapto Caal “oiets Fiftieth Aual Geeral Meetig. The foral usiess COTSWOLD Canals Trust and Stroud will be followed by cheese, wine and a natter. District Council have welcomed the August Meeting news that the Canal & River Trust is backing the bid to reconnect Stroud There will be NO August meeting as the hall is closed for maintenance. to the national canal network. September Meeting Canal & River Trust trustees have On 7th September, Society member Gordon Osborn will be talking about family cruising in Ireland. pledged £625,000 to support the Thank you all for your support. restoration of the Cotswold Canal. The assistance will be spread over Alan Rose five years from 2018 if a bid this year Celebrating Fifty Years to the Heritage Lottery Fund is successful. -
The Coast Protection (Variation of Excluded Waters) (England) Regulations 2015
STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 2015 No. 523 COAST PROTECTION, ENGLAND The Coast Protection (Variation of Excluded Waters) (England) Regulations 2015 Made - - - - 3rd March 2015 Laid before Parliament 6th March 2015 Coming into force - - 6th April 2015 The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 113 of the Fourth Schedule to the Coast Protection Act 1949( a) and now vested in her( b). Title and commencement 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Coast Protection (Variation of Excluded Waters) (England) Regulations 2015 and come into force on 6th April 2015. Variation of the Fourth Schedule to the Coast Protection Act 1949 2. —(1) The Fourth Schedule to the Coast Protection Act 1949 (“the Act”) is varied as provided in this regulation. (2) For paragraph 7( c) (which, for the purposes of Part 1 of the Act, excludes from the definition of “sea” and “seashore” the River Wear above a line drawn from the south-eastern corner of the pilot lookout station situated on the old North Pier to the north-western corner of the seaward face of the old South Pier) there is substituted the following paragraph— “7. The River Wear, above a line drawn from the junction of Marine Walk and the old North Pier at Ordnance Survey national grid reference point NZ4098258342 to the north- western corner of the old South Pier at Ordnance Survey national grid reference point NZ4104058242.”. (3) For paragraph 9( d) (which, for the purposes of Part 1 of the Act, excludes from the definition of “sea” and “seashore” the River Esk (Yorkshire) above a line drawn from the southern edge of Tate Hill Pier to the southern edge of Scotch Head at Whitby) there is substituted the following paragraph— (a) 1949 c. -
The Evolution of the Beaulieu Drainage-System in the Southeastern New Forest (Hampshire)
The Evolution of the Beaulieu Drainage-system in the Southeastern New Forest (Hampshire) • ;• • •• by W. E. TREMLETT • . ABSTRACT. 'Mapping of geomorphological features arid drift deposits in the southeastern New Forest reveals that the present Beauleiu drainage-system has arisen from a large number of river-captures. An essentially eastward-flowing drainage-system towards the Southampton Water persisted, until after the 70-foot erosion cycle, and it was only in the interval between 70-foot times and 35-foot times or in the early part of the 35-fpot erosion cycle that capture by southward-flowing streams diverted the drainage towards the south coast. '.,.'_ . INTRODUCTION. ESEARCH on the evolution of the Beaulieu river-system was .undertaken, because4he extensive drift deposits of the Nature Reserve in the Matley and Denny area, south-east R of Lyndhurst (Tremlett 1961) yielded information which did not agree with published views on the evolution of the drainage-pattern (Everard 1957). It was, however, necessary to increase the area of investigation before the history of river-development could be com pletely understood, and mapping was extended to cover the area east of gridline 290 and south of gridline 110. The information discovered in this extension of area accords with conclusions expressed in the author's previous work—that much of the topography of this area was moulded in erosion- cycles that correspond to the 70-foot and 35-foot sea-levels recognised by Everard (1954B). Following the development of a mature valley-system in 70-foot times,-extensive sheets of gravel (some of the Higher Gravels of the Matley-Denny area1) were deposited ..within the valleys (and on the neighbouring wave-cut surface Everard 1954B, Fig. -
The Streams of the New Forest: a Study in Drainage Evolution
240 HAMPSHIRE FIELD CLUB THE STREAMS OF THE NEW FOREST: A STUDY IN DRAINAGE EVOLUTION By C. E. EVERARD, M.SC. Introduction. HE area to be discussed in this paper is somewhat larger than that ordinarily known as the New Forest. It extends from Tthe Solent northwards to the River Blackwater, and from the Avon eastwards to Southampton Water. The superficial gravel deposits of the New Forest have been the subject of much detailed morphological analysis in recent years {1, 2, 4, 5), and it has been shown that two ' flights' of gravel terraces exist (Figure 2), the larger descending southwards from. the summit area of Black Bush Plain (420ft. O.D.) towards the Solent, and the other flanking the Avon valley. These terraces mark the main pauses in the uplift of the area from its low level in the late Pliocene and since that time the landforms and drainage pattern have been evolving concurrently, under the influence of the intermittently-falling base-level. The gravel-terrace stages make it possible to trace the former courses of the Rivers Avon and ' Solent n across the New Forest and also the shore-lines of the estuaries which partly replaced them in the southern part of the area. The present New Forest streams are the much modified descendants of the tributaries of these major drainage channels. * The tributaries were, in many cases, too small to produce terraces, but two lines of evidence may be followed in attempting to re construct their former courses. Firstly, the development of the tributaries is intimately connected with that of the major arteries, and much is already known about the evolution of the latter. -
New Forest Catchment Flood Management Plan Summary Report December 2009 Managing Flood Risk We Are the Environment Agency
New Forest Catchment Flood Management Plan Summary Report December 2009 managing flood risk We are the Environment Agency. It’s our job to look after your environment and make it a better place – for you, and for future generations. Your environment is the air you breathe, the water you drink and the ground you walk on. Working with business, Government and society as a whole, we are making your environment cleaner and healthier. The Environment Agency. Out there, making your environment a better place. Published by: Environment Agency Guildbourne House Chatsworth Road Worthing, West Sussex BN11 1LD Tel: 08708 506 506 Email: [email protected] www.environment-agency.gov.uk © Environment Agency All rights reserved. This document may be reproduced with prior permission of the Environment Agency. Introduction I am pleased to introduce our summary of the New Forest Catchment Flood Management Plan (CFMP). This CFMP gives an overview of the flood risk in the New Forest catchment and sets out our preferred plan for sustainable flood risk management over the next 50 to 100 years. The New Forest CFMP is one of 77 CFMPs for England The main source of flood risk in the New Forest CFMP is and Wales. Through the CFMPs, we have assessed from river flooding and the increasing effect of the tide inland flood risk across all of England and Wales for due to sea-level rise. Flood risk is concentrated within the first time. The CFMP considers all types of inland the urban areas such as Brockenhurst, Lymington flooding, from rivers, groundwater, surface water and and Totton. -
(DWMP) New Forest Catchment
Drainage and Wastewater Management Plan (DWMP) New Forest Catchment 1 Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans New Forest Catchment - DRAFT Strategic Context for the New Forest DWMP The Environment Agency has previously defined the River Basin District catchments in their River Basin Management Plans prepared in response to the European Union’s Water Framework Directive. These river basin catchments are based on the natural configuration of bodies of water (rivers, estuaries, lakes etc.) within a geographical area, and relate to the natural watershed of the main rivers. We are using the same catchment boundaries for our Level 2 DWMPs. A map of the New Forest river basin catchment is shown in figure 1. Figure 1: The New Forest river basin catchment in Hampshire LONDON ENGLISH CHANNEL Based upon the Ordnance Survey map by Southern Water Services Ltd by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. Crown copyright Southern Water Services Limited 1000019426 2 Drainage and Wastewater Management Plans New Forest Catchment - DRAFT Overview of the New Forest catchment The New Forest catchment in Hampshire covers a geographical area of around 300 km2, the majority of which is forested common land located within the New Forest National Park boundary. The catchment is essentially rural but there is significant industrial development located to the east, along Southampton Water. The catchment includes a number of small towns including New Milton, Lyndhurst, Brockenhurst, and Lymington, and four sizeable villages: Ashurst, Brockenhurst, Lyndhurst, and Sway. Outside of The Forest are clusters of larger urban areas including Totton, Marchwood, Dibden, Hythe and Fawley to the east, and New Milton, Milford on Sea, and Lymington to the south-west. -
Summary Advice on Achieving Nutrient Neutrality for New Development in the Solent Region
Version 2 – June 2020 Natural England SUMMARY ADVICE ON ACHIEVING NUTRIENT NEUTRALITY FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOLENT REGION SECTION 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The water environment within the Solent region is one of the most important for wildlife in the United Kingdom. There are high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus (FAQ7) input to this water environment with sound evidence that these nutrients are polluting protected sites. 1.2 Through their wastewater effluent; future developments have the potential to make these impacts worse. Nutrient neutrality is one way of ensuring that development does not add to the existing nutrient load and this provides the certainty needed to meet the legal framework (FAQ1). 1.3 This summary report sets out how to calculate nutrient neutrality for developments within Solent catchments. It is accompanied by a Frequently Asked Questions (Annex A) and links to these questions are included throughout this report. 1.4 The type and location of each development will confirm whether nutrient neutrality is needed (FAQ2). If nutrient neutrality is required, a 4 stage process can be completed, as summarised below in Figure 1. This approach focusses on developments that drain to the mains network. If the development drains to non- mains systems e.g. Package Treatment Plants (PTP) then a bespoke calculation for Stage 1 is required (FAQ3). 1.5 This methodology is based on best available scientific knowledge, and will be subject to revision as further evidence is obtained. It has been developed as a pragmatic tool however for each aspect there is a degree of uncertainty. It is our advice to local planning authorities to take a precautionary approach in line with existing legislation and case-law when addressing uncertainty and calculating nutrient budgets. -
NF Wetland Mgt Plan
Table 3-4: Geological Characteristics LIFE 02NAT/UK/8544 ManagementPlan NewForestWetland Period Epoch* Drift & Solid Key Characteristics Avon Lymington Beaulieu Bartley Cadnam Hampshire Geology Water Avon Tributaries Quaternary Recent Shingle Found along coastal fringes of ✓ 25,000 year Alluvium Lymington catchment including Hurst BP Found lining modern day river ✓✓ ✓✓ ✓✓ floodplains and valleys Peat ✓✓ ✓ Pleistocene Valley Gravel Flinty in character with a complex mix ✓✓✓✓ 1 million of gravel, sand and clay. years BP Brickearth Unstratified mixture of fine-grained ✓ quartz sand or flint. Laid down as flood deposits along younger river terraces and may have a partially 3.7 aeolian (windblown) origin Plateau Gravel Composed almost exclusively of flint ✓✓ ✓✓ ✓✓ with some pebbles of sarsen (silicified sandstone) laid down on old river terraces Tertiary Oliogene Headon Beds Healdon formations deposited in ✓✓ ✓ 40 million freshwater lagoon comprising shelly year BP clays, silts and sands Lyndhurst member deposited in brackish or marine conditions and comprises more sandy sediments. Upper Headon formation is shelly sand. Eocene Barton Sands Sands of marine origin ✓✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ 60 million Barton Clay Clay deposit laid down in deep water. ✓✓✓✓ years Marks start of Barton group Bracklesham Beds Fossil rich deposits laid down in warm, ✓✓✓ marine and freshwater conditions. Bagshot Beds Sandy beds of coarse, porous material ✓✓ Table 3-5:Sites of Geological or Physiographic Interest LIFE 02NAT/UK/8544 ManagementPlan NewForestWetland River Basin Site of Special Key Features of Interest Geological or Physiographic Interest Prolific Tertiary locality exposing the only complete exposure of the silty Huntingbridge Formation of the Bracklesham Hampshire Avon Studley Wood Group, remarkable for its molluscan fauna and the number of species limited to the formation.