The best dog-friendly hikes and walks around Ellingham, Harbridge And Ibsley

The Redshoot Pub serves nice food at a reasonable price. A good stop of on the walk or if staying at campsite

Sunday lunches coming out looked amazing . Great beer garden. Fab stopover on our route home.

Didn’t stop there this time, we arrived a little early, looked great, we’d already checked the menu.

A very serene and peaceful little stream in the new forest. I came on a rainy day, but can imagine it looking beautiful in the summer days.

The white-coated Ibsley Common triangulation point is easy to see from a distance, sitting right next to the Whitefield Plantation. It's at 77m, surrounded by beautiful moorland and offering gorgeous far-reaching views of the area.

Wonderful countryside views here - Dockens Water is a very beautiful river. If the ford here is flooded, do not worry; there is a footbridge provided for walkers so no need to get your feet wet!

RAF Ibsley Battle HQ is a tactically positioned bunker just to the East of RAF Ibsley, within the conifer trees atop a copse. The bunker was constructed as a defence Headquarters should the nearby RAF Ibsley become overrun by ground forces. The bunker is largely hidden by the trees that surround it, which helps hide the bunker away. However, standing next to it at the surface, it’s easy to see the bunker’s location by its two huge concrete cupolas (observation points) that protrude from the ground. I was able to fuse this explore together with my glamour photography which was brilliant! The nearby RAF Ibsley was shut down and demolished in the 50s, making way for ground excavation, which would later be filled in to form beautiful lakes in the area. While very little now exists of the base, there are a few nearby remnants which still exist, including the control tower, runway ends, trenches, gun mounts and bunkers (which includes the battle HQ). In researching the bunker, I discovered that the majority of the bunker inside was still in good intact condition, but had been sealed off with a gate to prevent people from wandering inside. Approaching the bunker from the base of the hill, a few clues as to the nature of the area could be distinguished, namely crumbling brick structures deeply embedded and only slightly protruding from the ground. Given the area was filled with trenches, it’s entirely possible that these are the remains of trenches to guard the command bunker.

Moyles Court School is a private school located in Rockford, Hampshire, for children aged 2 to 16 years. The school was established in the 1940s in Bude, North Cornwall. It was briefly moved to a manor house in Wimborne, Dorset before the then-headteacher, Vesper Hunter, oversaw the move to the current site in 1963. The main building at Moyles Court - the current site - was the former manor house of Rockford, and later Ellingham. The 17th century manor house was once the home of Dame Alice Lisle, the last woman to be publicly beheaded in England following a judicial trial. In 1940 Moyles Court was requisitioned by the RAF as the station Headquarters of the RAF Ibsley Airfield and later derequisitioned in 1946. Whilst they resided here, the officers were known to have used the lawn for tennis. In 1962, the 53-acre estate was sold at an auction advertised and conducted by Woolley and Wallis. In all, ten lots were sold, including the one containing the current school on 14 acres of land.