The Bunney *** Self Catering holiday Cottage.

Your Hosts - Sue & David Collingwood

Welcome you to The Bunney, 11 Old School Close, Butlocks Heath (Netley Abbey), Southampton.

We purchased No.11 in September 2006 and carried out the usual transformation of repairs, alterations, decoration and garden make-over jobs.  Our intension was to use the property as Self Catering holiday accommodation, despite all the guidance to undertaking the leasing to tenants.

After many months of work, we contacted www.hamblevalley.com who are a local business linked to Tourist Information.  They gave us an excellent assessment in April 2007 and The Bunney appears on their website.  We are linked to many other websites, most of which are Free. Browse The Bunney Links / The Bunney Links.

The Bunney website was launched at the end of February 2007 and we took our first booking from Saturday 23 June 2007.

The Bunney website has gone through many changes and hopefully is improving all the time.  The original idea was to give local information about the area or what goes on in the Southern Parishes - Netley Abbey, Butlocks Heath and Old Netley. Including Hamble-le-Rice.

It was becoming apparent that we needed to include more information for our visitors to browse and widened the net to take in Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester, Romsey, Eastleigh, Fareham and Gosport etc.  

We were excited about our first booking and the arrival of Rhoda & Sandra.  They made it all seem worthwhile as they really liked what we had done to No.11 and enjoyed holidaying in the area, but most of all Shopping.

This year, there will a Butlocks Heath Local History page.  I am gathering information about the area relating to photographs, mapping, books, magazines and www.