www.aliceholt.org is one year old!

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It was founded in a hurry as a "single issue" site for those who wanted to fight the (now dead-and-buried) plan to build a campsite/ holiday village complex in this Ancient Royal Forest

We are pretty pleased that we've kept the site fresh and updated all year and that we've successfully evolved from being a "Stop the Campsite" protest site to a general community site for all those who live in, visit and love this unique place.

We've got features on wildlife, history, activities and local events. And we cover issues affecting the Forest, such as changes in Forestry Commission management policy and the South Downs National Park proposals. But we'd dearly love more contributions from other people who have pictures, articles, opinions, announcements ,poems or indeed anything that's related to Alice Holt Forest and the surrounding area.

Site visitors should note we are INDEPENDENT and NOT connected with the Forestry Commission , Forest Enterprise , The Alice Holt Visitor Centre ,Go Ape , Hampshire County or East Hants District Councils, the local Parish Councils or any business organisation.

However we do get lots of e-mails and enquiries for these organisations and we're always happy to do our best to forward them to the right people! So feel free to contact us at info@aliceholt.org

KEY SITE INFORMATION

Editor: Patrick Butler

Contact by E-mail: info@aliceholt.org

Contact by Phone: 01420 520 484

Contact by Post: 1 Blacknest Cottages

Blacknest Road

Blacknest, Alton

GU34 4PZ Hampshire

Software: We use Macromedia Dreamweaver MX but we're not that techie so the results are sometimes a bit rough and ready!

Format for Contributions: Microsoft Word is best, Adobe PDF is OK too.Pictures can be Bitmap (.bmp) J-Peg (.jpg) PNG (.png).We'll do our best with anything you have. Just send it by mail and we'll include it

Local Notices: Always welcome. We post them on the "Forest News and Diary of Events" page

Advertising: We don't normally carry "adverts" per se, but we're happy to promote local businesses ,especially those of interest to the many visitors who come from far and wide for a day out at Alice Holt. So if you want to feature details of your pub, B&B, farm shop, cycle hire, riding stable, shop or any other kind of business in the Bentley, Binsted, Frensham, Rowledge,Alton or Farnham areas feel free to contact us! We're happy to provide simple details or a more extensive feature by arrangement ...and any charges will be purely nominal.

Links: We're happy to provide links to relevant sites either local or sites from all over on related themes. Just send us a link and we'll consider it for our "Useful links" section on a reciprocal basis (ie you link your site to us too!)

FORTHCOMING FEATURES:

Things we're considering (As and when time allows!) include a Forest Blog, Feature on other historic Royal Forests, more in-depth guides to different categories of wildlife ,such as butterflies, birds, mammals, fungi etc, a guide to notable trees in the Forest (Rare and exotic species, champion specimens etc), some of the history of the Alice Holt Research Station and its scientoific work, a more extensive general history of the Forest, old photos of Alice Holt in past times , a guide to the geology and landscape features of the area, a feature on Alice Holt's literary connections and a series of downloadable guides to walks and cycle rides in Alice Holt and the surrounding country.

CAN YOU HELP WITH ANY OF THESE?

If you are something of a buff on any of the above topics your help would be really welcome. Just use the contact details to contribute material on any of these, or other subjects.

SITE STATISTICS (Source: Extreme Tracking)

Visits 23rd February 2007 - 6th April 2008 12,840 (Running 12 months total 11,182)

Unique visitors, excluding re-loads 7,192

Latest Monthly visits (March 2008) 1,919

Highest Ever monthly visits 2,184 (February 2008)

Peak Times: Fairly even spread over days of weeks, with slight peak on Sundays (16.7%) Fairly even spread between hours of 8am and 11pm with peak 9am to 1pm (31.1%). Clear visitor peaks during public holidays and during the early part of the main school holiday periods

Source of Visitors: 26.2% come directly to the site, 62.9% from search engines, 10.8% link from other websites and the remainder come mainly from links on e-mails

Google supplies 77.1% of search engine visitors with a further 4.8% coming from Google Images. Yahoo! Represents 10.1% , Live.com 3.3% ,MSN Search 2.6% and AOL Search 2.0%

The most frequent websites that people come from are the joint Bentley & Binsted Parish site (bentleyvillage.com and binsted village.com, wildaboutbritain, a wildlife forum site and the Frensham Parish Council site

Origin of Visitors: 94% are UK-based, with the USA and Canada providing 2.3% , Europe 2% (France being the most common country of origin) 0.3% are from Australia or New Zealand but in total over 40 countries are represented from every continent (except, so far , Antarctica!)

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About www.aliceholt.org www.aliceholt.org is one year old! << Back to Home Page It was founded in a hurry as a "single issue" site for those who wanted to fight the (now dead-and-buried) plan to build a campsite/ holiday village complex in this Ancient Royal Forest We are pretty pleased that we've kept the site fresh and updated all year and that we've successfully evolved from being a "Stop the Campsite" protest site to a general community site for all those who live in, visit and love this unique place. We've got features on wildlife, history, activities and local events. And we cover issues affecting the Forest, such as changes in Forestry Commission management policy and the South Downs National Park proposals. But we'd dearly love more contributions from other people who have pictures, articles, opinions, announcements ,poems or indeed anything that's related to Alice Holt Forest and the surrounding area. Site visitors should note we are INDEPENDENT and NOT connected with the Forestry Commission , Forest Enterprise , The Alice Holt Visitor Centre ,Go Ape , Hampshire County or East Hants District Councils, the local Parish Councils or any business organisation. However we do get lots of e-mails and enquiries for these organisations and we're always happy to do our best to forward them to the right people! So feel free to contact us at info@aliceholt.org KEY SITE INFORMATION Editor: Patrick Butler Contact by E-mail: info@aliceholt.org Contact by Phone: 01420 520 484 Contact by Post: 1 Blacknest Cottages Blacknest Road Blacknest, Alton GU34 4PZ Hampshire Software: We use Macromedia Dreamweaver MX but we're not that techie so the results are sometimes a bit rough and ready! Format for Contributions: Microsoft Word is best, Adobe PDF is OK too.Pictures can be Bitmap (.bmp) J-Peg (.jpg) PNG (.png).We'll do our best with anything you have. Just send it by mail and we'll include it Local Notices: Always welcome. We post them on the "Forest News and Diary of Events" page Advertising: We don't normally carry "adverts" per se, but we're happy to promote local businesses ,especially those of interest to the many visitors who come from far and wide for a day out at Alice Holt. So if you want to feature details of your pub, B&B, farm shop, cycle hire, riding stable, shop or any other kind of business in the Bentley, Binsted, Frensham, Rowledge,Alton or Farnham areas feel free to contact us! We're happy to provide simple details or a more extensive feature by arrangement ...and any charges will be purely nominal. Links: We're happy to provide links to relevant sites either local or sites from all over on related themes. Just send us a link and we'll consider it for our "Useful links" section on a reciprocal basis (ie you link your site to us too!) FORTHCOMING FEATURES: Things we're considering (As and when time allows!) include a Forest Blog, Feature on other historic Royal Forests, more in-depth guides to different categories of wildlife ,such as butterflies, birds, mammals, fungi etc, a guide to notable trees in the Forest (Rare and exotic species, champion specimens etc), some of the history of the Alice Holt Research Station and its scientoific work, a more extensive general history of the Forest, old photos of Alice Holt in past times , a guide to the geology and landscape features of the area, a feature on Alice Holt's literary connections and a series of downloadable guides to walks and cycle rides in Alice Holt and the surrounding country. CAN YOU HELP WITH ANY OF THESE? If you are something of a buff on any of the above topics your help would be really welcome. Just use the contact details to contribute material on any of these, or other subjects. SITE STATISTICS (Source: Extreme Tracking) Visits 23rd February 2007 - 6th April 2008 12,840 (Running 12 months total 11,182) Unique visitors, excluding re-loads 7,192 Latest Monthly visits (March 2008) 1,919 Highest Ever monthly visits 2,184 (February 2008) Peak Times: Fairly even spread over days of weeks, with slight peak on Sundays (16.7%) Fairly even spread between hours of 8am and 11pm with peak 9am to 1pm (31.1%). Clear visitor peaks during public holidays and during the early part of the main school holiday periods Source of Visitors: 26.2% come directly to the site, 62.9% from search engines, 10.8% link from other websites and the remainder come mainly from links on e-mails Google supplies 77.1% of search engine visitors with a further 4.8% coming from Google Images. Yahoo! Represents 10.1% , Live.com 3.3% ,MSN Search 2.6% and AOL Search 2.0% The most frequent websites that people come from are the joint Bentley & Binsted Parish site (bentleyvillage.com and binsted village.com, wildaboutbritain, a wildlife forum site and the Frensham Parish Council site Origin of Visitors: 94% are UK-based, with the USA and Canada providing 2.3% , Europe 2% (France being the most common country of origin) 0.3% are from Australia or New Zealand but in total over 40 countries are represented from every continent (except, so far , Antarctica!) << Back to Home Page