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.

New rooms to explore at Beaulieu Palace House www.insidehampshire.co.uk/new-palace-h...

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

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

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

1 month to go for our #Webinar with Prof Jennie Batchelor of the University of York about #Hampshire resident #JaneAusten and the Magazines. If you love this novelist as much as we do, please join us on 19th March at 7pm ⬇️ hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/events/jane-... #JaneAusten250

The awesome size of the giant sequoias on The Tall Trees Trail from Blackwater car park. They're the largest trees in the #NewForest, weigh over 100 tonnes and are still growing! The easy 1.5 mile trail is free to visit. There are toilets and a food truck at the car park. #ThickTrunkTuesday

‘Smugglers’ is a beautiful Grade II listed 18th century cottage in Sopley in the south-west of Hampshire. In 2015 a chimney fire caused it to be uninhabitable. The building, now restored, can be seen on the Christchurch to Ringwood road.

Exbury Gardens. The spectacular collection of landscaped woodland, herbaceous, contemporary, formal and wildflower gardens open again on 8 March 2025. #ExburyGardens

St. Michael’s Church, made of stone and flint, is a Grade I listed building and the oldest in Basingstoke. It can be found in the heart of the town and is one of the finest late medieval churches in Hampshire. #Basingstoke

Were you lucky enough to catch the sunshine ☀️ recently? Hoping for some more this coming weekend - a chance to get outside. 📷 Fritham, New Forest #Trees #NewForest #Fritham #Sunshine

The Burmese Temple Bell at Exbury Gardens. It was brought to England in the 1820s and can now be seen hanging from a large oak tree. #ExburyGardens

Arthur Priest, The Unsinkable Stoker, died today in 1937. He survived the sinkings of the Titanic, Asturias, Alcantara, Britannic & the Donegal. He ended up ashore in Southampton as he claimed "no one wished to sail with him after these disasters." There, he died of pneumonia.

Embley Park - former home of #FlorenceNightingale. Her family moved there in 1825. One story has Florence sitting under a giant cedar in February 1837 - the place where she received the first of her callings from God. #EmbleyPark is currently a school and has been since 1946.

Don’t miss the impressive art installation ‘Whales’ at Winchester Cathedral. 🗓️ On until 26 February 2025 🐳 Three sculptures of sperm whales by artist Tessa Campbell Fraser are hung from the cathedral’s Nave. ℹ️ Visit winchester-cathedral.org.uk for more information. #WinchesterCathedral #Whales

It may be wet and cold outside at the moment but as the days get longer we can’t wait for blue skies and sunshine ☀️ 📷 Beaulieu on a bright summer day. #Beaulieu #Hampshire

Buckler’s Hard is lovely spot to walk along the Beaulieu River. The historic village is free to enter but parking charges apply. A new photographic exhibition featuring the local area opens 15 February. The 2025 photographic competition is open now via the Beaulieu River website. #BucklersHard

Snowdrops at St George’s Church, Damerham. Their official snowdrop weekend is 8 and 9 February. Free to attend and refreshments available. 10am - 4pm. #snowdrops #Hampshire

Sunlit sheep in the New Forest. #Hampshire #NewForest #Sheep #Livestock #Sunlight

If you missed #Hampshire on season 12 of #DiggingForBritain with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social , you can catch up on BBC iPlayer. 📺 Episode six shows a dig in the #NewForest which uncovers the story of the Romani encampment which used to be there. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Bronze statue of King Alfred, commissioned in 1899 to mark the millennium of his death. The Anglo-Saxon king ruled over Wessex from 871-899 and defended England against Viking invasion. He’s buried in his capital city of Winchester. #KingAlfred #Winchester #Wessex

Calling all reading fanatics, book lovers, aspiring writers, film enthusiasts and poets – tickets are available to purchase for #Portsmouth BookFest 2025, which runs from Tuesday 18 February to Sunday 9 March. www.insidehampshire.co.uk/join-portsmo...

The trial for the part time bus/taxi/cycle only restriction on Portswood Road begins tomorrow. This follows the consultation on the Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs) and other regulatory notices which took place in October and November 2024. www.insidehampshire.co.uk/portswood-pr... #Southampton

#Snowdrops (Galanthus) can be seen from late January depending on weather. The pretty flowers are one of the first to come out in the year and are a sign that spring is not so far away. Find out the best spots in #Hampshire to see them. www.insidehampshire.co.uk/explore-hamp...

It’s Big Garden Birdwatch Weekend. 🗓️ 24-26 January 2025 How many birds can you spot in your #Hampshire garden? #BigGardenBirdwatch Sign up for #BGBW2025 with the RSPB @rspb.bsky.social www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

It’s #Winterwatch and Chris Packham shares his favourite place to go for winter wildlife in #Hampshire

Winter Woodland Lights 🦉 @hawkconservancy.bsky.social 🗓️ 17 Jan - 2 Feb (selected dates) 6pm or 8pm. 🎟️ To book visit www.hawk-conservancy.org/events/winte... It’s a new display journeying around the world, exploring habitats from our rolling farmland to the African Savannah. #Owls #WinterLights

Delicious Tunworth Cheese. A Camembert-style cheese made from pasteurised cows cheese. It’s made by hand and from milk produced by Hampshire cows. #Hampshire #cheese #TunworthCheese