* Bing Maps (was Multimap) |
Free online maps - easy to use print function. Search on place names, postcodes,
street names, etc. Please note - requires cookies enabled. |
* Google Maps |
As above, but works fine without cookies, so better (in my humble opinion) |
* Trains from Hinton |
An hourly service from Hinton to Waterloo |
* Bargain rail fares |
Friends of Christchurch Station have compiled this useful guide |
* Getting About |
Lots of useful info, including about buses, community transport schemes,
cycling, cars, taxis. How to apply for blue badges and bus passes - all
kinds of things. Well worth a look. |
* Dorset Road Works |
Map of all planned and existing road works across Dorset. |
* Royal Mail Post Codes |
An easy to use and very useful way to match post codes to addresses.
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* Dorset Speed Cameras |
Camera locations. Mobile camera sites updated
weekly.
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* Hampshire Speed Cameras |
Camera locations. Mobile camera sites updated
weekly.
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* Campsites UK |
The link shows sites nearest Highcliffe, but you can search the whole UK
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* RAC |
Apart from usual RAC info, they have the
best route planner and dynamic map service
there is. Try it and see. |
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* AA Travel News |
Updated often - check it out before you make
your journey |
* AA |
The rest of the AA services |
* The Highways Agency |
Traffic info, road projects, lots of other
information |
* Dorset Roadworks |
County Council information, updated regularly |
* Hampshire Roadworks |
County Council information, updated regularly |
* Transport Direct |
Great site for helping to plan a journey. I've used it for local buses,
as well as trips further afield. |
* Bournemouth Airport |
Everything, including routes, flight times,
and links to all the companies flying from
the airport |
* South West Trains |
Timetables, bookings, information |
* National Rail Route Planner |
A great help if you are travelling any distance
using different companies. |
* Seat61 |
If you want to know about train travel from Britain across Europe this site is a great place to visit |
* National Express Coaches |
All National Express tickets can now be purchased
at Christchurch Tourist Office - 01202 471780,
or email |
* Solent Blue Line Buses |
All routes, timetables, etc |
* Bournemouth Yellow Buses |
All routes, timetables, etc |
* Wilts and Dorset |
Highcliffe, Barton, New Milton - bus route map, services |
* AA Route Planner |
Free route planning from the AA |
* Wightlink Ferries |
Lymington to Yarmouth is our local route. |
* Brittany Ferries |
Including Poole and Portsmouth to Northern France |
* Condor Ferries |
Poole and Weymouth to St Malo and the Channel Islands |
* Puffin Cruises |
Operating from Lymington Quay, Puffin run regular cruises, both sea and river, and also cover special events |
* Hurst Castle Ferries |
In addition to the Hurst Castle ferry, these guys also run cruises to the Needles and Yarmouth |
* Thompsonfly |
Cheap flights from Bournemouth - I found them very easy to deal with |
* Ryanair |
Flights to Dublin, Glasgow, and Germany from
Bournemouth |
* LeCoqs |
Flights to Channel Islands from Bournemouth |
* Airtime Charters |
Charters to anywhere passengers want to go. Also day trips to France in Summer |
* Channel Express |
Air charter at Hurn - freight and passengers |
* FlyBe |
Flights from Southampton, including some
of those planned by Buzz |
* Eurostar |
Booking, timetables, you name it |
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Bits and pieces |
* Check phone's Eco Rating
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Eco Rating tool that enables individuals to assess the environmental impact of their mobile phones.
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* BBC Dorset |
The BBC site just for Dorset |
* BBC Radio Solent |
Interesting and useful site |
* BBC South Today |
Another interesting and useful site |
* Gresham College Free Online Lectures |
Free online lectures on a wide range of subjects.
View at the scheduled time, or later online.
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* Spotting Investment Scams |
Very helpful advice and information about keeping your investments safe.
How to choose a broker, and lots more information - including about crypto-currency.
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* Secure Home |
Full of extremely helpful advice and information about keeping your home and property secure |
* Kids Off School |
Want some ideas of what to do with the kids while they are off school? Try this site. |
* Pictures of England |
Pictures of England is a super website, with thousands of wonderful photos from all over beautiful England Well worth a regular visit |
* Our Property |
A useful site if you are buying or selling property. It allows access to official land registry data. Just enter a postcode and see what houses are selling for in that area. Lots more useful function as well |
* Szigg web directory |
Szigg.net is a comprehensive web directory. Everything from the arts and
recreation, to business and shopping |
* Recycling Guide |
A really useful site. Advice, hints, tips on how to recycle at home, or in school.
Easy to follow illustrated instructions |
* Banking Guide |
A useful comparison of UK banking services. What's available from them all, who's hot, and who's not. Plus advice on banking related scams |
* BMD Certificates |
A team of researchers who will locate UK birth, marriage, or death certificates
for you. No result - no fee |
* Skylink Weather |
Extremely comprehensive weather reports and forecasts UK and worldwide |
* Local Translations |
Translate between the common European (and Japanese) languages. Very easy to use.
Excellent if you just want to translate text in common languages - free
of course |
* Free Translations |
Another one - any language to any other. Includes website translation and
much more |
* Prompt Online Translations |
And another one. This one has an Internet Explorer addon
- simple to use |
* Countryside Agency |
Includes all the latest on countryside access
rights |
* Lottery page |
All the results, and much more |
* The Met Office |
Local five day forecast |
* Royal Mail |
Postcode finder, and other services.You need
to register for this, but it's free |
* Yellow Pages |
Yellow pages online |
* BT Directory Enquiries |
Directory enquiries online |
* UK Phonebook |
Really useful - look up both private and
business numbers |
* InfoSpace Directories |
Worldwide directories. I've looked up numbers
in several countries - it works fine. |
* Destinations UK |
Comprehensive links to all corners of the UK and Ireland |
* UK Community Website Directory |
This directory is aiming to list every comunity website in the UK |
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A site showing many villages and small
towns in the UK with their own websites |
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As above |
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As above, but includes Eire. All three of these sites are good in their own way, and we're listed on
all of them |
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An excellent guide to town and village websites across Britain. We're
listed. |
* Peak District Info |
All you need to know about a really beautiful part of the UK. Where to stay, where to eat. What to see, what to do. Lots of information. |
* My Home Town |
Town and village sites from all over the UK |
* Exeter University Research Guide |
A researcher's dream. It coordinates online
libraries, museums, research centres, and
publishers |
* Inland Revenue |
Deal with all your tax business online |
* Premium Bond Checker |
Check your bonds. Well over 10,000 prizes
claimed by using this site |
* City Link Guide |
Guide to many British cities and towns |
* BBC Gardeners World |
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* Southern Tourist Board |
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* Sightseeing UK |
Quite useful guide to just about everywhere
in the UK |
* Garbo Hajinian - Artist |
For no other reason than I love this artist's
work. If you like impressionist art check
out Garbo Hajinian. |
* Verbix verbs |
Verbs in 100+ languages |
* Wordweb |
Free dictionary and thesaurus - right on
your desktop |
* One Look Dictionary Search |
Free dictionary search. It searches 922 dictionaries
- amazing tool |
* Visual Thesaurus |
I love this web based thesaurus. Just watching
it is fun |
* Idioms |
All those idioms explained , including their
source |
* Currency Calculator |
From any currency to any other - includes
Euros |
* Mailing Preference Service |
Moved to Services page. Get rid of junk mail - online. Related
sites to stop unwanted sales phone calls,
and faxes. |
* Lottery Grants |
Application details and forms (or phone 0845
600 2040) |
* Watch That Page |
Watches your favourite web pages and informs you
by email of any changes. Nothing to install,
completely free. Register and sit back. |
* Time Zones |
See what time it is - anywhere |
* Friends Reunited |
I'm sure you've heard of this one. It covers
work places now as well |
* Girlguiding UK |
Everything you could want to know. For local
contacts, go to Local Info page |
* Ref Desk |
Help on just about any subject. Includes
an Ask the experts section |
* Absolute Trivia |
A collection of useless knowledge and quizzes.
It will lead to many others |
* Bored.com |
A huge collection of funny, interesting,
crazy stuff |
* Caravan Site Finder |
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* SteamWeb |
A collection of steam engine photos, mostly at Hinton/Walkford (on the Steamweb website) |
* Dorset Ramblers Assoc |
Find out about the Ramblers Association Groups in Dorset, RA led walks
you can try, and other information about walking in Dorset |
* Long Distance Walkers Association |
Site for the Dorset Group from the Long Distance Walkers Association. Social walks
14+ miles, and challenge walks (some suitable for runners) 25+ miles |
* Greenlink |
Countryside recreation, access, and info for South East Dorset |
* Up My Street |
An interesting collection of info about
your postcode or town. Try it |
* Technology Colleges Trust |
Includes Highcliffe Comprehensive of course |
* Old Wives Tales |
Find out the stories behind those old wives tales. |
* Song Lyrics |
Get the lyrics and mp3 files for over 240,000
songs, from over 3000 artists |
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Computer stuff - just a taste of techie sites,
and search engines. There are hundreds more |
* Skype |
Absolutely brilliant! Free telephone calls through
your computer, to anywhere in the world.
You need Broadband to have it work properly |
* Vmail |
Send voice emails - much more personal. easy
to set up |
* File To Mail |
Another very handy email tool. Select a file in a
folder, type in the mail address, and just
the file is sent |
* PDF Speedup |
This really speeds up those painful Acrobat Reader
startup times |
* Global spellchecker |
Use MS Word spellcheck function from any
application at all |
* Screen Reader Review |
A review of many screen readers, and text
to speech products |
* Trellian Webpage |
The best free website creation program I've
found |
* A 9 |
The best search engine - try it and see |
* Google |
The most popular - at the moment |
* Copernic |
Copernic Basic is free - an unusual search
engine, but very good |
* SearchTurtle |
A little different this one - nice though |
* Ask Jeeves |
An old favourite |
* All The Web |
Another good one |
* Computer Consultant |
Free advice on all computer issues |
* Karbo's Guide |
Illustrated guide to pc hardware |
* Modems |
A great site if you have modem questions
or problems |
* Microsurfer |
Want to speed up your internet access? |
* Technocopia |
It's a technological world |
* TECHtionary |
Curently being redeveloped. Computer technology
terms explained |
* XP Display Settings |
Change your XP screen resolution, colours,
etc to suit yourself |
* SiFEU |
Strong encryption program, but easy to use |
* Nightvision |
Control the gamma channels/settings, refresh rates, etc. ideal for those that need to preserve dark adeptation (eg astronomers) |
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Computer stuff - just a taste of free download
sites, and other fun stuff. There are hundreds |
* Freeware BB |
No nonsense, no popups, just a nice simple freeware download site. Registration
required for extra security and peace of mind. |
* Jumbo |
Free programs of all kinds |
* Nonags |
As above |
* Download |
As above |
* FetchFido |
Amazing UK games site. All types for all ages -includes Java, Flash, Shockwave
- you name it. Brilliant! |
* Free Online Games Player |
The newest games site we list - so far. Lots of gaming related information as well as the games. |
* Egg2 |
Another really good UK games site. Again all types for all ages. |
* Play Free Online Games |
Exactly what it says. Games of all types for all
ages |
* Web Monitor |
Be informed when your favourite websites
are updated |
* Funmail |
Send fun emails, with music, cartoons |
* PhotoCartoonist |
More fun emails, plus lots more besides |
* Hugs and Kisses |
Yet more email fun |
* Funology |
Fun for kids from 1 - 101 |
* Free Games Net |
Free games, and lots more besides. |
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