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  HAMPSHIRE - LoveToKnow Article on HAMPSHIRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Southampton is one of the principal ports in the kingdom.
The area of the administrative county of Southampton is 958,742 acres, and that of the administrative county of the Isle of Wight 94,068 acres.
In 1291 the archdeaconry of Winchester was coextensive with the county and comprised the ten rural deaneries of Airesford, Alton, Andover, Basingstoke, Drokinsford, Fordingbridge, Isle of Wight, Sombourne, Southampton and Winchester.
59.1911encyclopedia.org /H/HA/HAMPSHIRE.htm   (4809 words)

  
 Southampton Water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Southampton Water is a stretch of the sea north of the Isle of Wight and the Solent, in England.
Southampton's emergence as a major port, and particularly as a port handling very large vessels, depended partly on certain geographical features of Southampton Water.
Southampton Water is an estuary with major potential for land use conflicts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southampton_Water   (382 words)

  
 Southampton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Southampton is a city and major port situated on the south coast of England.
It is the closest city to the New Forest and lies at the northern-most point of Southampton Water approximately halfway between Portsmouth and Bournemouth.
There are three members of parliament for the city: Rt Hon John Denham (Labour) for Southampton Itchen (constituency for the east of the city), Dr Alan Whitehead (Labour) for Southampton Test (the west of the city), and Sandra Gidley (Liberal Democrat) for Romsey (which includes a portion of the north of the city).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Southampton   (1548 words)

  
 Info and facts on 'Southampton Water'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Southampton Water is a stretch of the sea north of the Isle of Wight (An isle and county of southern England in the English Channel) and the Solent (A strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight), in England (A division of the United Kingdom).
Together with the Solent (A strait of the English Channel between the coast of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight), Southampton Water is world-renowned for yachting (Water travel for pleasure).
Southampton's emergence as a major port (A place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country), and particularly as a port handling very large vessels, depended partly on certain geographical features of Southampton Water.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/southampton_water.htm   (316 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Southampton
Southampton Solent University (formerly Southampton Institute) is a university of 11,000 students based in Southampton, United Kingdom.
Southampton Test is a constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Southampton is twinned with: This article is about partnerships between towns distant from each other; see Twin cities for the unrelated concept of physically neighbouring cities.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Southampton   (2058 words)

  
 Southampton
SOUTHAMPTON, a town within Hampshire, though forming a county of itself, situated on a point of land between the river Alre, or Itchen, on the east, and the Test, Teese or Anton on the west.
The present road from Winchester to Southampton, as far as the village of Otterbourn, coincides with the line of the Roman road from Venta Belgarum (Winchester) to Clausentum ; at 0tterbourn the Southampton road diverges a little to the right, while the Roman road may be traced along the hills running straight onward towards Bittern.
Southampton was anciently a place of great trade ; wool and tin were exported ; but it declined very much when the export of wool was prohibited, and at the beginning of the eighteenth century was reduced to a very low ebb.
www.oldtowns.co.uk /Hampshire/southampton.htm   (1813 words)

  
 Southampton Township Comprehensive Plan Update   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Southampton Township should consider carefully if this would improve the recreation facilities in the Township or if an alternative individual plan would be sufficient to meet the needs of the residents.
Southampton Township is served by an extension of the Borough of Shippensburg’s Waste Water Collection and Treatment Facility under the direction of the Cumberland-Franklin Joint Municipal Authority (CFJMA).
Southampton Township should assist CFJMA and Southampton Township, Cumberland County with the extension of public sewerage service to the San Jo Acres development.
www.celdf.org /plan/communityfacilities.htm   (1468 words)

  
 About Utility Contractors of New England, Inc.: Current News
The DEP required a water boil order in Holliston, assessed a $5,400 penalty on the town of Grafton for violating Clean Water Act Requirements, and issued a consent order to the Southampton Water Department for over use of a new drinking water well.
The boil water order required residents boil tap water for one minute before water was used to drink, make ice, brush teeth, wash dishes, and food preparation.
In October, the DEP finalized a consent order with the Southampton Water Department due to the city’s failure to comply with permit and regulatory requirements concerning a drinking water well.
www.ucane.com /news.htm   (1045 words)

  
 Hydroides ezoensis
Hydroides ezoensis was first recorded in 1976 in Southampton Water and is thought to have been introduced in that year (Thorp, Pyne and West 1987; Zibrowius and Thorp 1989) probably from Japan.
Southampton Water is dominated by phytoplankton populations which, in summer, may exceed those elsewhere in the Solent by a factor of three or four (Anon 1976; Williams 1980).
Outside of Southampton Water numbers are very small and, apart from a significant population at Cowes, Isle of Wight, comprise mostly single individuals with no aggregation.
www.jncc.gov.uk /page-1699   (1020 words)

  
 News4
SOUTHAMPTON- The state Department of Environmental Protection has found trichloroethylene contamination in 14 private wells of Cook and County roads and in seven wells in nearby areas of Holyoke.
In the short term, DEP is providing bottled water to residents whose well water tests near the maximum recommended levels of TCE, and in the near future may install whole-house filters for them as well.
Southampton Water Superintendent Joseph Slattery agreed, saying he would take part in Monday's meeting aimed at finding a remedy for the problem.
www.pvpc.org /bapac/news_articles/news4.html   (301 words)

  
 Western Solent Shoreline Management Plan
Southampton Water is essentially a low energy estuary environment fed by the Rivers Test, Itchen and Hamble.
The Western Solent and Southampton Water region is also home to a diverse range of human activities - heavy industry, commercial, residential and recreational uses, on both land and water.
Saltmarshes and mudflats abound in the estuaries of the Western Solent and Southampton Water.
www.solentforum.hants.org.uk /othercoast/western_solent_smp.htm   (5269 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Southampton (British And Irish Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
The London-Southampton railway, finished in 1840, and the double tide of the harbor made Southampton an important shipbuilding, trade, and tourist port.
Southampton was one of Britain's chief military transport stations in both world wars.
Among its schools are the Univ. of Southampton and a teacher-training college.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Sthamptn.html   (369 words)

  
 SOUTHAMPTON WATER and FLYING BOATS
Southampton Water,showing the various locations with Flying Boat/Seaplane history.
From 1919 to 1958 four different locations in Southampton Docks were used as terminals for Flying Boat services.For more details click on th picture above of Short Solent 4 G-ANYI(c/n S.1558) of Aquila Airways,about to leave on the last ever passenger carrying service (1958).
Woolston,on the banks of the river Itchen, was the location of the Pemberton-Billing aircraft building company.This was later renamed Supermarine.Also located on the river bank at Northam was the Gosport Aviation Co.To see more about Supermarine,click on the picture above of their factory as it was before WW2.
daveg4otu.tripod.com /airfields/sol.html   (390 words)

  
 Hampshire County Council
Southampton City Council are supporting the project by developing a cycle route between Town Quay and the City Centre/Railway Station.
The primary objective of the project is to encourage and increase the level of cycling activity between the settlements of Hythe/ Dibden/Holbury/Blackfield (New Forest), and the City of Southampton, via the use of the Hythe Passenger Ferry link.
The terminals at Southampton and Hythe link large residential and commercial areas within a distance of five kilometres on both sides of Southampton Water, with good access to cycle networks on the Southampton side and passenger transport services on both sides (see plan).
www.hants.gov.uk /scrmxn/c20269.html   (730 words)

  
 Port of Southampton
One of the country’s busiest and most successful deep-water ports, Southampton is a natural choice for a wide range of customers and trades, with facilities to handle virtually any type of cargo.
Southampton is the UK’s leading vehicle-handling port, and has long been the UK’s principal cruise port, handling in excess of 200 cruise calls and well over half a million passengers in 2004.
It is also a major handler of liquid and dry bulks and containers, and almost half of the UK’s containerised trade with the whole of the Far East is handled at this port.
www.abports.co.uk /custinfo/ports/soton.htm   (235 words)

  
 BBC - Southampton - Webcams - City Centre camera
By 1450, Southampton was the third most important port in the Kingdom.
The dawn of the New World began at Southampton in 1620 when the Pilgrim Fathers embarked for America on the Mayflower and the Speedwell.
It meant much of Southampton had to be re-built in the post-war period - which is why you see so many relatively modern buildings.
www.bbc.co.uk /southampton/webcams/civic_cam.shtml   (233 words)

  
 e-Prints Soton - Seasonal and spatial distribution of the mesozooplankton of Southampton Water with particular ...
Muxagata, E. Seasonal and spatial distribution of the mesozooplankton of Southampton Water with particular reference to the contribution of copepods and barnacle larvae to pelagic carbon flux.
In the past half century, a number of studies have described the general composition of the mesozooplankton of Southampton Water, highlighting aspects about the seasonality of the major components and identifying calanoid copepods and barnacle larvae as the major elements.
A total of 144 different taxa were recorded within the zooplankton of Southampton Water during this study, with 92 identified to species, 30 to genus and 22 identified at a higher level.
eprints.soton.ac.uk /17668   (734 words)

  
 11/20/00 -- Bird Habitat Central to UK Port Expansion Battle
About 110 kilometers (70 miles) southwest of London, Southampton is home to one of the country's busiest ports, handling 35 million tonnes of cargo a year and serving more than 55,000 commercial vessels.
Solent and Southampton Water is a designated special protection area (SPA) of European importance, because of the wintering and migratory birds dependent on wetland habitats within the site.
Dibden Bay is a buffer between the towns of Hythe and Marchwood, provides an open view from Southampton, a wildlife corridor to the New Forest from the waterside and is one of the last underdeveloped areas on Southampton Water.
forests.org /archive/europe/bhabcent.htm   (1175 words)

  
 ZNet Commentary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The modern-day story of Southampton's docks encapsulates the ever-increasing conflict between the corporate demand for economic growth on the one hand, and environmental protection coupled with people's quality of life on the other.
It provides an open vista from Southampton, a wildlife corridor to the New Forest from the Waterside, and one of the few remaining undeveloped areas on Southampton Water.
The bay forms part of the Solent and Southampton Water Special Protection Area (SPA) under the European Union Birds Directive, and is a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention.
www.zmag.org /Sustainers/content/2001-06/07cromwell.htm   (1710 words)

  
 ISS - Media Streaming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Water pumping began at Otterbourne, 9 miles north of Southampton in 1888.
Fresh water from wells in the chalk superseded the impure water previously extracted from the River Itchen at Mansbridge.
As the demand for water for Southampton and its environs grew, additional pumping equipment was installed.
www.iss.soton.ac.uk /emedia/video.php?id=149   (199 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Titanica Message Board: A Journey on the Britannic
Of those mentioned in the text Betty is a nurse, Roland is Vera's lover recently killed at the front and Edward is her brother, recuperating at home after being wounded.
On the late afternoon of Saturday, September 23rd, 1916, a large tender carried a party of excited and apprehensive young women down the glittering expanse of Southampton Water.
I hated Waterloo and the Southampton express ; there was such a general bustle and noise and confusion which somehow seemed to intensify the feeling that we were going away.
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org /discus/messages/15663/20034.html?1020216197   (2147 words)

  
 Persimmon Homes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The development of elegant apartment buildings is named after the year when Henry VIII declared that Southampton Water was to be one of England’s foremost Naval Docks.
By 1450 Southampton was the third most important port in the Kingdom, whose main export was wool.
Many famous ships have sailed out of Southampton over the centuries, including the Mayflower, which carried the Pilgrim Fathers across the Atlantic in 1620 to the ‘New World’ and, perhaps most infamously of all, the Titanic which sailed out of Southampton Water to its doom in 1912.
www.persimmonhomes.com /news/news_release.asp?id=94   (495 words)

  
 Upper Southampton Township - Toll Brothers Construction
On November 17, 2003, Toll Brothers submitted an application to the Upper Southampton Township Board of Supervisors requesting an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance to allow for age restricted housing on a 9.48 acre parcel of property located at 1178 Street Road, Southampton.
According to the Water and Sewer Authority Manager, there is sufficient capacity to provide public water and sewer service to this development.
Water and sewer rates are based on usage and the rates levied for this development will not have an adverse effect on other residents.
www.southamptonpa.com /tollbrothers.html   (935 words)

  
 Southampton on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Proposals for parliamentary constituency boundaries in the counties of Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton -- Part 1 of 2.
Le Queen Mary 2 à Southampton Le Queen Mary 2 a quitté lundi son port d'attache de Southampton (sud de l'Angleterre), pour.
Southampton Photonics appoints Richard J. Moscioni as vice president of sales; Telecommunications industry veteran to lead company`s global sales drive in high performance optical components market.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Sthamptn.asp   (795 words)

  
 Netley Abbey
The walk to it from Southampton is one of entrancing beauty, rich in all the charms of water and woodland.
Netley Abbey stood, and stands, on a gentle elevation that rises above the bank of Southampton Water, Originally it seems to have been built as a square; but very little is left of the Abbey save the remains of the church, which occupied one of its sides.
Walter Taylor, a builder of Southampton, for the complete demolition of the Abbey; it being intended by Taylor to employ the materials in erecting a town house at Newport and other buildings.
www.mspong.org /picturesque/netley_abbey.html   (825 words)

  
 Southampton local Area information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Hiltingbury Lakes - 17 acres of water, woodland and wildlife
There are a variety of multi-storey public car parks within easy reach of the centre of the city, details of which can be found on Southampton City Councils website.
There are very good bus services throughout the town, and a public 'Tripplanner' system live on the web and operating at various public terminals to help residents and visitors journeys.
www.hants.gov.uk /localpages/south_west/southampton/attract.html   (550 words)

  
 Lloyds List
No-one disputes that the current largest container ships can get into Southampton, but it is factually true that with a channel depth of 12.6 metres the tidal window in Southampton is significantly less than Felixstowe with a channel depth of 14.5 metres.
Throughout the Dibden Bay Inquiry ABP maintained that there was no need for a further dredge of Southampton Water and that consequently it did not form part of the application.
The channel into Southampton is not only tortuous it has a shallow depth of only 12.6m, which limits large container ships to high tide.
members.aol.com /dibdenbay/Latest_News/Lloyds_List/lloyds_list.html   (1255 words)

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