About www.aliceholt.org www.aliceholt.org is now over two years old! Page updated 9th December 2009 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 . 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. Links to the official Forestry Commission site can be found on the Home Page. However we do get lots of e-mails and enquiries for these organisations and we're do our best to forward them to the right people!
KEY SITE INFORMATION Editor: Patrick Butler Contact by E-mail: info@aliceholt.org Contact by Phone: 01420 520 483 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 scientific 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, refers to main home page only, excluding visitors accessing & exiting via other pages without visiting home page) Visits 23rd February 2007 -9th December 2009 69,606 (Running 12 months total 35,443 Dec 08 - Nov 09. "Daily Unique" visitors, excluding re-loads 47,350 (Running 12 months total 26.791 Dec 08 - Nov 09) 76% of visits are unique to that day, 24% are reloads or re-visits Latest Monthly visits (November 2009) 1,994, (+39% versus November 2008) Highest Ever monthly visits 4,291 (August 2009) Peak Times: Fairly even spread over days of weeks, with modest peak on Mondays (16.0%) & Sundays (16.4%) Fairly even spread between hours of 8am and 11pm with peak 9am to 2pm (40.01%). Clear visitor peaks during public holidays and during the early part of the main school holiday periods Source of Visitors: 11.5% come directly to the site, 77.8% from search engines, 10.7% link from other websites and a small fraction come from other sources such as links on e-mails Google supplies 84.8% of search engine visitors with a further 4.1% coming from Google Images. Yahoo! Represents 6.1% , and Microsoft's new Bing! engine is #3 with 1.3% The most frequent websites that people come from are the joint Bentley & Binsted Parish site (bentleyvillage.com and binsted village.com), Headley Village website, BBC.co.uk, Frensham Parish Council's site and wildaboutbritain.co.uk, a wildlife forum site. Origin of Visitors: 94% are UK-based, with the USA and Canada providing 2.5% , Europe 2.3% (France being the most common country of origin) 0.3% are from Australia or New Zealand but in total nearly 100 countries are represented from every continent (except, so far , Antarctica!)
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