| * 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 |
South West Trains run service from Hinton to Waterloo and Weymouth |
| * 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. |
| * 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.
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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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| * 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 |
| * AA Route Planner |
Free route planning from the AA |
| * 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 |
| * 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 |
| * 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 |
| * 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 - not all year round though |
| * Ryanair |
Flights to Dublin, Glasgow, from Bournemouth - again, not all year |
| * 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 |
| * BBC Dorset |
The BBC site just for Dorset |
| * BBC Radio Solent |
Interesting and useful site |
| * BBC South Today |
Another interesting and useful site |
| * Secure Home |
Full of extremely helpful advice and information about keeping your home and property secure |
| * 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 |
| * Natural England |
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 |
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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. |
| * My Home Town |
Town and village sites from all over the UK |
| * 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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| * 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. |
| * 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 |
| * Up My Street |
An interesting collection of info about
your postcode or town. Try it |
| * 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 |
| * 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 |
| * 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 |
| * 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 |
| * 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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