14-693: Royal Southampton Yacht Club is located on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire . It received its Royal Charter in 1875 making it one of the oldest Yacht clubs in the UK . At the first regatta of the 1840 season, the club announced, "...that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to consent to the Club being called "The Royal Southampton Yacht Club." The Office of the Lord High Admiral warranted
28-458: A zone where copses and scattered trees interrupt the relatively neutral sandy heath soil, however with insufficient organic uneroded deposition over millennia to prevent an upper charismatic dendritic drainage basin of many very small streams. This explains the multitude of tiny headwaters across the New Forest. Many coalesce into the flow southeast and then south across the forest heaths to
42-518: Is Brythonic , deriving from the Ancient British word * Iska meaning "fishes" or "fish-place" and cognate with the modern Welsh word Pysg (fishes).This derivation applies to many similarly named rivers throughout Britain including the Axe , Exe and Usk , with the names evolving local distinctions over the centuries. The Beaulieu River rises near Lyndhurst in the centre of the New Forest,
56-481: The River Exe , is a small river draining much of the central New Forest in Hampshire , southern England . The river has many small upper branches and its farthest source is 8 miles (13 km) from its 4 miles (6 km)-long tidal estuary. Unusually, the river, including its bed, is owned by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu . The current name, Beaulieu is French , meaning "beautiful place". The original name, Exe,
70-706: The IRC Class Zero winner of the first Saturday's racing." As of 1898 the club had over 200 members and organised the annual Southampton Regatta. The annual membership subscription fee at the time was 10 shillings and sixpence. More recently, Ocean Village in Southampton included "a building for the Royal Southampton Yacht Club Houses built in the early 1990s". Beaulieu River The Beaulieu River ( / ˈ b juː l i / BEW -lee ), formerly known as
84-534: The building, which already shows above the hoarding, is to bo ready for occupation before the end of the present year. In 1886, members celebrated the opening of the new facility, "new and extensive premises erected for the members of the club, on a portion of the land Above Bar, known as the Ogle site, in the place formerly occupied by the Circus, which building, by no means an ornament to the locality, has now given way to
98-605: The club to use the distinguishing flag consisting of "a white ensign, with the crown and Southampton arms in the centre" in parliamentary papers from 1859. In the previous year, the Admiralty had withdrawn permission to fly the White Ensign from any yacht club except for the Royal Yacht Squadron . The West Quay Regatta Club was formally established in 1866 but had existed for many years before that date, and
112-406: The dressings being executed in red terra-cotta The building will contain a large room for the club meeting, smoking, library, chess, billiard, dining, and other rooms, while every attention has been paid to the ventilation, sanitation, and the comfort and convenience of the members. The architect is Mr W. H. Mitchell, of Southampton ; the contractors Messrs J. Crook and Sons, of the same town, and
126-619: The large and handsome structure in future to be the headquarters of the successful Yacht Club, which had its origin in Southampton, where so many of the most superior of the British Yachting fleet have been built." According to the Daily Telegraph , in 1897 "The Queen's Cup is first presented to the Royal Southampton Yacht Club by Queen Victoria . It was won by Latana and is still awarded today to
140-639: The left and the Hatchet Stream to the right. In addition there are a series of artificial lakes near the mouth of the river, known as the Black Lagoons. The Environment Agency measures the water quality of the river systems in England. Each is given an overall ecological status, which may be one of five levels: high, good, moderate, poor and bad. There are several components that are used to determine this, including biological status, which looks at
154-476: The quantity and varieties of invertebrates , angiosperms and fish. Chemical status, which compares the concentrations of various chemicals against known safe concentrations, is rated good or fail. The water quality of the Beaulieu River was as follows in 2019: The river was used as a backdrop for some scenes of the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons – the tree-lined waters were used to portray
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#1732780453137168-642: The river is navigable to small craft. Bucklers Hard was once a significant shipbuilding centre, building many wooden sailing ships, both merchant and naval, including Nelson's Agamemnon . Since 2000 the navigable channel at the entrance to the river has been marked by a lighthouse known as the Millennium Lighthouse or the Beaulieu River Beacon. The river has two main tributaries, the Beaulieu Abbey Stream to
182-534: The village of Beaulieu . There the river becomes tidal and once drove a tide mill in the village. The mill ceased operations in 1942. Below, the tidal river (estuary) continues to flow south-east through the Forest, passing the hamlet of Bucklers Hard and entering the Solent at Needs Ore. For its final kilometre, it is separated from The Solent by a raised salt marsh known as Gull Island . Below Beaulieu village
196-451: Was known as the "father" of the Royal Southampton Yacht Club. When the cornerstone of a new clubhouse was laid in 1885, the estimated cost of the planned building with land included, was about £8,000, occupying an area of about 8000 square feet, three stories high, with a basement and a tower. The planned building was further described: The design is "domestic gothic", and the premises will be of local red bricks, pointed with black mortar,
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