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Nelson's flagship Victory at Portsmouth

Spinnaker Tower, Harbourfront, Portsmouth

Southampton is one of the foremost passenger liner and container ports in Britain

The Needles chalk sea-stacks and lighthouse, Isle of Wight

Portchester Roman fort, near Porstmouth

Beach huts on the front of Hayling Island

Hurst Castle shingle sea-spit with its lighthouse faces the Needles of the Isle of Wight from the Hampshire mainland

Winchester cathedral. Winchester was once the capital of England.

Ventnor seaside resort on the southern shore of the Isle of Wight

The New Forest with its famous ponies. The New Forest was never really a forest of trees, but an area of heathland that was a royal hunting ground (or royal forest) in the Middle Ages. It is now a National Park

Exotic Brighton Pavillion, built around 1800 in Indian Moghul style as a seaside holiday home for the Prince Regent

The promenade and beach at Brighton

The Seven Sisters is a series of chalk cliffs near to Eastbourne. On the right is famous Beachy Head and its lighthouse.

Eastbourne from the chalk cliffs

The meanders of the River Cuckmere

Between the wooded ridges of hills there are broad, flat clay vales

A view across the South Downs

Lewes was founded where the River Ouse could be crossed just at the edge of the South Downs. In Norman times a castle was built and there was a harbour and docks. The river has since silted up.

Hastings is famous for its fishing boats, its pebble beach and its cliff railway.

Bodium Castle. The moated castle guards a gap in the hills in case of invasion from the south.

Buckingham Palace

Wembley

Wembley

Walking bridge in London

London Eye

Trafalgar Square at night

Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge

Houses of Parliament

London skyline

Windsor Castle

Winchester Cathedral

River Thames at Reading

Newbury

Marlow

Stonehenge

Whitehorse Hill and the Berkshire Downs

Chiltern beechwoods and bluebells

Reading Abbey

Chiltern Hills village with pond, well and church