IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Abbotswell Road, FORDINGBRIDGE, SP6 2JF
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Abbotswell Road, SP6 2JF by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (13 Images Found)
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Donkeys near Blissford
Grazing beside the minor road from Blissford to Abbots Well and these two donkeys.
Donkeys were among the first animals after cats and dogs to associate with man, and were certainly one of the first draught animals used by man when he took up agriculture. Donkeys originally arrived in Britain many centuries ago with the Roman legions. The Romans used them both as pack animals and harnessed four abreast to draw wagons full of supplies. The donkey soon found its place: wherever there was hard work and little reward.
Later we can find working donkeys, harnessed and drawing a carriage in Anglo-Saxon paintings, shown pulling a plough in Sussex on the Bayeux Tapestry and more recently there are many pictures of Queen Victoria driving her donkey. At the peak of their popularity there were 100,000 working donkeys in London.
Donkeys can be very long lived. Donkeys of 60 years old have been recorded, but normally a 40 year old donkey is looked on as being elderly. You can appreciate why we refer to 'donkey's years' as being a long time (though this may also owe something to the length of donkeys' ears, a play on words!). Of course 'donkey work' is always demanding and arduous. It's not clear where the expression 'talking the hind legs off a donkey' comes from, though!
Image: © Maigheach-gheal
Taken: 6 Feb 2011
0.07 miles
2
Blissford Hill
A view from Blissford Hill towards Ditchend Brook, and Ringwood Forest in the far distance.
Image: © Barry Deakin
Taken: 12 Jan 2008
0.09 miles
4
Blissford, stile
At the beginning of the footpath from open forest to Blissford Cross.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 19 Oct 2014
0.12 miles
5
Blissford, horse grazing
On the slopes of Blissford Hill.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 19 Oct 2014
0.12 miles
6
Blissford, Chilly Hill
One of a series of hills on the western edge of open forest.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 19 Oct 2014
0.12 miles
7
Blissford Cross, Hampshire
Post Box Cottage, a typical thatched building in the New Forest.
Image: © Brendan and Ruth McCartney
Taken: 20 Apr 2012
0.15 miles
8
Blissford Cross
Left, to Abbots Well; ahead, to Fordingbridge; right, to Godshill.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 19 Oct 2014
0.17 miles
9
Blissford: postbox № SP6 17
A small postbox emptied finally at 4:15pm on weekdays and at 10:30am on Saturdays. I think it may have been relocated at some point, because the thatched cottage in the background is called Post Box Cottage.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 21 Nov 2010
0.17 miles
10
Blissford: a roadblock, New Forest style
Typically, as soon as I and the oncoming motorist had slowly negotiated the pony and each other, he moved to the verge.
Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 21 Nov 2010
0.18 miles