Beautiful, your even closer to the water than we are. 
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The Gulf Stream warms it nicely.
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Thanks Diane & Roxy.
For many years I had family living that way (Highcliffe, Hordle, Milford on Sea, Milton and Christchurch) so I spent a lot of time there. I seem to recall there were also cows roaming free with the New Forest ponies, is that still the case?
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Yes, Commoner s who have livestock are permitted to let their animals roam anywhere in the forest for a minimul charge.Back in 1916 my Grandfather was fined two shillings for letting unbranded cattle onto the forest. Of course there are cattle grids in places to prevent cattle from roaming outside the forest boundary.
I clearly remember one hotel owner who, although having cattle grids was getting sheep onto the lawns… What he didn,t know was that sheep are pretty good jumpers and they were clearing the grids in one leap. New wider grids were installed.
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Born in Hillingdon, Middlesex, England. Raised in Canada. I have called Canada home since 1965. First in Ontario, but about 3 years later parents moved us to British Columbia. A taste of where I live, see and experience.
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Thanks for confirming what I thought was the case, although that was decades ago now I did think that would still apply under ancient Commoner rights. It’s a really nice place to live, I would live there tomorrow but property prices are very expensive, you are very lucky to live there. When I used to spend time in those areas, due to parents living there, it was when the clifftop car parks were totally free, unlike now as I believe NCP now run them so charge for parking. Nothing there is as it used to be, not the regular places unfortunately, it’s all become very commercialised. It’s called progress but that’s not what the ‘locals’ call it! 
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Thanks for posting all these beautiful pictures and videos of where you live, they are all absolutely stunning.
Hammersmith …
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That is true, imagine how awful it would be if it didn’t, the winter of 1963 every year.
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I remember it well. We lived on a farm, a hill farm at the edge of the Grampians. Eventually, we saw the last of the snow in April.
I was 12 then and at grammar school where the winter sports were rugby and cross country running. During that winter they stopped the rugby but kept up the cross country which we still had to do in our p.e. kit and plimpsolls. They brought us up harder in those days, I remember my red raw legs through running through the drifts even now… 
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Yes, prices are a little higher down here. In today,s Mail a beach hut at Muddefordis for sale 16ft by 13ft with views ove to the Isle of Wight. No electricity, no gas, no toilet or shower. The asking price? £575,000.
One a bit smaller on the same beach sold recently for £375,000.
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We live in Somerset, a few miles inland from the Severn Estuary in a semi on a fairly busy road through a once small and important village that has long been swallowed up by other villages and towns.
We are on the flat with local amenities a few minutes walk away including a library, small supermarket, opticians, hairdresser, fruit and veg, hardware, Post Office, and three pubs.
Bigger stores and retail parks are about a mile away.
We can be out in the countryside within a few minutes, by car, and about fifteen minutes on foot,
Busses run past our home about every twelve minutes from early until late, and the main Bristol to Penzance railway runs nearby. I can walk to our local station in about twelve minutes.
Bristol is not far away and I always enjoy a visit there with lots to see and do.
The M5 is about five minutes away as long as we travel outside rush hour.
Beautiful countryside, clotted cream, Zumerzet Brie, and locally made varmhouse zyder m’dears. We likes it by here we do, ooh arr.
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