Talk:Southampton Common

SSSI

"Site of Special Scientific Interest; a government designation for the country's premier natural sites." This can't be right Supposed 17:50, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Appriximately 90 hectares were designated as SSSI in 1998. I've added an external link to the relevant English Nature records. --Rmackenzie 22:12, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Cheers, what I meant by what I said though is surely SSSI is not a designation for the country's "premier" natural sites. Supposed 08:44, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I've removed the offending phrase. Waggers 09:03, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

Guide to the zoo

https://www.flickr.com/photos/robertfish/4439567412/in/album-72157623510601009/

If we ever develop a major section on the zoo

©Geni (talk) 10:32, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Source for hampshire act 1983

http://www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/publications/hampshirestudies/digital/1980s/vol41/Samuels.pdf

Paddling pool repacement

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/15063785.PHOTOS__Iconic_paddling_pool_to_shut_and_be_replaced_with___500_000_play_area/?ref=rl&lp=2

©Geni (talk) 17:08, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

more source http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/15531552.PHOTOS__Get_a_glimpse_of_Southampton_s__exciting__new_play_park/

©Geni (talk) 21:07, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

opening http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/15612290.Francis_Benali_opens___500_000_play_park/

©Geni (talk) 17:05, 22 October 2017 (UTC)

Possible source for streams

Lawrence, Burgess (1982). Streams and Watercourses of Southampton. The Friends Of Old Southampton. OCLC 655788135.

©Geni (talk) 16:55, 9 April 2017 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Southampton Little Common

If a source can be found, add a note about this area to the article on the whole common and redirect. PamD 13:59, 11 May 2017 (UTC)

Source for lets rock

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/15403780.Let_s_Rock_to_return_after_thousands_turned_Southampton_Common_into_a_dance_floor/?ref=mrb&lp=19

©Geni (talk) 06:10, 13 July 2017 (UTC)

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Old map of common

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Hampshire_Sheet_065,_Ordnance_Survey,_1866-1889.jpg

©Geni (talk) 09:07, 18 December 2017 (UTC)

note Southampton records office has a 1846 Large Scale map of Southampton that covers the common.©Geni (talk) 21:04, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

2003 management plan

https://www.southampton.gov.uk/images/a-guide-to-the-management-plan_tcm63-395912.pdf

©Geni (talk) 17:30, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

balloon festival went out in 2005 http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/11856691.Fresh_hope_over_return_of_Southampton_balloon_festival/ .©Geni (talk) 00:42, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

Source for hand axes

Three Lower Palaeolithic Handaxes from Southampton Common: Candidates for the Earliest Archaeology in Hampshire

Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society 2015 [1]

Not yet online

22:07, 17 January 2019 (UTC)

Common people may be on its way out

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17393875.southamptons-common-people-festival-hangs-in-the-balance-as-company-goes-into-administration/

©Geni (talk) 20:48, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Possible photo

One of the WW1 army camps. Official US photo so PD:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205218620

©Geni (talk) 01:41, 2 December 2020 (UTC)

Drawing of the hand axe found on the common

©Geni (talk) 13:08, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Pine trees at Avenue Road entrance

There's a line of pine trees as you enter Southampton Common from the Avenue Road side.

When I was at school, I was told that they were planted in WW1 to screen the officers’ tents from the soldiers’ tents as they were camped there prior to embarking for France. I was unable to find a source for this, so I didn't add it to the page. 64.231.148.142 (talk) 20:34, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Maybe something like this could be a source. I can't see the contents of this particlar one, but there might be others that are similar, especially as there is seemingly so much ecological interest in the Common these days. --Northernhenge (talk) 22:47, 26 February 2024 (UTC)

Apart from the fact that the troops were housed in huts, not tents, it's certainy possible. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 08:23, 27 February 2024 (UTC)