| Travel links | |
| * Multimap | Free online maps - easy to use print function. Search on place names, postcodes, street names, etc. |
| * Pipeline | Join Pipeline (FREE) and save money on petrol. It works. |
| * Royal Mail Post Codes | An easy to use and very useful way to match post codes to addresses. |
| * Dorset Speed Cameras | Camera locations. Mobile camera sites updated
weekly. |
| * Hampshire Speed Cameras | Camera locations. Mobile camera sites updated
weekly. |
| * RAC | Apart from usual RAC info, they have the best route planner and dynamic map service there is. Try it and see. |
| * 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 |
| Bits and pieces | |
| * BBC Dorset | The BBC site just for Dorset |
| * BBC Radio Solent | Interesting and useful site |
| * BBC South Today | Another interesting and useful site |
| * 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 | |
| * Southern Tourist Board | |
| * 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 | |
| * 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 |
| 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 |
| 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) |
| 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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