Many churches have a lych gate built over the main entrance to the enclosed area round the church. The name, also spelt lich or lytch, is from the Anglo Saxon 'lich' meaning corpse. The gate marks the division between consecrated and unconsecrated ground, where the bearers sheltered with the coffin, waiting for the clergyman to lead the procession before the burial. The original lych gates had seats, a lych cross and a lych stone - a slab on which the coffin rested.

A bright New Year's Day.

This spring is in Gilham Lane. The water is tested, but drink at your own risk.

The winter sun casts a shadow on the castle ramparts.

Lockerley is a village on the River Dun in Hampshire, not far from the Wiltshire border.

Although I now do neither it was lovely to see people bringing their dogs and enjoying a smoke without any hassle.

Easons Green is a scattered Wealden settlement, about 3 miles southeast of Uckfield.

Very small reservoir just beside the track.

These large clumps of greater-tussock sedge (Carex paniculata) are not nearly as common as they once were in the wet woodlands of the Weald. Here they were photographed with a dusting of snow on New Year's Day 2010. Powdermill Wood is a local nature reserve.

The man made plateau was long thought to be part of the Iron Age fort located on the hill, however, with it being outside the ramparts recent scholarship suggests it may have been used as a pen for animals.

Hardington Mandeville is a small village in Somerset, southwest of Yeoville and near the Dorset border.

Arundel Castle is a restored mediaeval castle. It was founded by Roger de Montgomery on Christmas Day 1067. Roger became the first to hold the earldom of Arundel by the graces of William the Conqueror. The castle was damaged in the English Civil War and then restored in the 18th and 19th centuries.
From the 11th century onward, the castle has served as a hereditary stately home and has been in the family of the Duke of Norfolk for over 800 years. It is still the principal seat of the Norfolk family. (Notes from Wikipedia).

This path from Posbrook Lane crosses a field normally full of friendly horses & ponies. The path terminates at a small housing estate.

This is the junction, where cycle route from the right joins footpath North of Upper Brownwich Farm.

In the northern corner of Black Knowl.

The starkness of Winter shows the strength of the Old Oak tree at the bottom of Anker Lane.

Even on New Year's Day, the place was busy.

Footbridge over a drain on Uddens Water Riverside Walk; to the right Station Road Bridge.

The view from the cafe towards the cliffs and the undercliff walk at Saltdean

The River Alver is very short, rising in a series of springs and surface water drainage ditches in the Chark Common and Foxbury area west of Gosport and northwest of Stokes Bay. It flows southwards, gathering water until it reaches a concrete canal running alongside the western edge of No.2 Battery at Stokes Bay. Royal Engineers have made use of it over the years, to maintain a defensive moat.

This taken three years earlier at almost the same location Link

On the Esplanade in Bognor Regis.

People and their canine compatriots enjoy a sunny New Year's Day on Boscombe beach.

Near Bindon Cliffs, approaching Seaton from Lyme Regis.

The second highest Tor on Bodmin Moor, viewed from the highest, with the sea beyond.

Presumably part of an earlier effort to keep the sand and mud banks from moving too much opposite Exmouth.

One of the stones erected by the Duke of Somerset SX7678 : Old Jack. The name Victoria is now very difficult to discern.

New Years day 2010

This is the eastern (right side) of two similar terraces of shops with flats above facing the junction of Pafford Avenue and Fore Street, Torquay.

The right fork takes you to the Avon Dam, and the left up over Brent Moor.

New Year’s Day 2010.

This view westwards from the coastal footpath near Perranuthnoe takes in Maen-du Point, with St Michael's Mount behind. All the foreground is within the grid square.

Popular in the sunshine on New Year's Day 2010.