Sopley
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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
Sopley Brook
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 Grade II listed mill
Ibsley
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Ibsley is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley, in the New Forest district, in Hampshire, England. It is about 2.5 miles north of the town of Ringwoo
Sopley
…the manors was for 200 years part of the lands of the Earls of Ormond. The other manor was owned first by the Le Moyne family, and then, like nearby Ibsley, by the Stourton Barons. In the middle of the 16th century, both manors were sold to the Berkeley family, and the two manors became one again. In 1575…
Derelict control tower overlooking the lakes near Ibsley