Sopley is a village and civil parish in the New Forest National Park in Hampshire, England. The village lies on the old main road from Christchurch to Ringwood, on the east bank of the River Avon. The
The Woolpack Inn, Sopley village
The former "Avon Tyrrell" Manor, owned by the Fane family, which is now the Tyrrells Ford Country Inn and Hotel. Drawing by Lt Col. Henry Hamlyn-Fane in 1850.
The River Avon is in the south of England, rising in Wiltshire, flowing through that county's city of Salisbury and then west Hampshire, before reaching the English Channel through Christchurch Harbou
The River Avon in Salisbury
The start of the lower half, near Fordingbridge
The 17th-century navigation channel near Britford is still in water
Longford Castle overlooks the river