h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Ah, I was wrong about Churchill. It wasn't at OWH at all. It was at the brilliantly named Cheesefoot Head, near Winchester.

link: http://www.hampshirecam.co.uk/dday/dday.html

Thanks Icy that was an excellent link. Do you know (you seem to know about this sort of thing) where you can find out about medals and why the were awarded.

What medals in particular, Bob? I don't know much about them at all, I'm afraid, but I'll happily help research something for you.

If you want to take it offline, then you'll find me at icy (underscore) north (at) hotmail (dot) com

MC

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Entry: Old Winchester Hill - A87788218
Author: bobstafford - U3151547

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I think you should provide links to GoogleMaps, rather than providing longitude/latitude coordinates.

You've given the length of the ditch in metric, accurate to the nearest hundredth of a millimetre. There's no way they measured it that accurately. Can you please express the distance to the nearest metre?

GOOGLE MAP Refs with a acknowledgement or Longitude / Latitude and SU reference for paper map users with an OS acknowledgement.

NB- OS USE BOTH

Old Winchester Hill Hillfort, western gate. --
-- ( 50.981077,-1.0906163 ) SU 63935 20579

Main car park --
-- ( 50.988672,--1.0813392 ) SU 64575 21432

Dew pond --
-- ( 50.980446,--1.0858024 ) SU 64274 20513

Bronze Age Tumulii --
-- ( 50.981466,-1.0909737 ) SU 63909 20622



sorted the entry

Hi Bob, this is a lovely entry

I'm not sure why the title is "Old Winchester Hill Hampshire 1017899" though

I do think your footnote 2 about the butterflies, along with your ID list of them, should be in the text,

Other than that I think this is ripe for picking and ready to send to a sub-ed

Bob

GB

This entry is about the hill, rather than just about the hill fort, right?

So you should start by talking about the hill, not the fort. You can mention the fort briefly in the introduction but leave the detail for the section with the header "The Hill Fort". The bit about the bronze age cemetery is out of place too, as it is in the section about the Hill Fort when it in fact predates it.

yes Gnomon hill, national park, and hillfort with attached footpaths

Hello Galaxy Babe
Old Winchester Hill Hampshire and English heritage reg number 1017899 to link to search engines.

I shall look at the butterfly's



Glad you like it

I shall look at the butterfly's

I did personally I think it looks horrid just breaks up the text and not everyone likes butterfly's

However I go with the majority

Hi Bob

Have you addressed Gnomon's points in post 31?

h2g2 Editors

Is that what was needed

The start of the entry still needs to be restructured slightly so that the introduction talks about the hill, and then the section "The Hill Fort" talks about the hill fort.

is that better

That's a bit better, but now you talk about somewhere called Old Winchester Down and only mention in a footnote that it is the Hill or the site of the hill.

Can you please start the entry by talking about the hill.

Also, as I said before, you've given the length of the ditch in metric, accurate to the nearest hundredth of a millimetre. There's no way they measured it that accurately. Can you please express the distance to the nearest metre?

You've a strange number in the title. Please remove it.

All of these are things you were already asked to do, Bob.

done