Meon Valley
Saxons in the Meon Valley
The Saxons in the Meon Valley Project is a superb heritage lottery funded community history project, which is producing an aerial film of the Meon Valley.
Read MoreTitchfields Great Wriothesley Monument
The Wriothesley monument is a wonderful Renaissance monument in the ancient St Peter’s church in Titchfield Hampshire. It is the family memorial to the hugely influential Wriothesley family of Tudor England.
Read MoreAll Saints Church East Meon
The imposing All Saints church East Meon is a striking cross shape Norman building that sits above the floor of the Meon Valley and contains one of Hampshire’s four black Tournai marble fonts
Read MoreSt Peter’s and St Paul’s Church Exton
The C13th flint church of St Peter’s and St Paul’s nestles into the Meon Valley in Hampshire as if it has been there as long as the river itself. It has an unusual weeping chancel.
Read MoreJohn Young Dean of Winchester 1616
What connection can be made between Winchester Cathedral and Exton, a small village in the Meon Valley? Can you solve the chronogram found on the memorial to Dean Young and how does it all connect with the village of Soberton. More intriguing Hampshire history.
Read MoreHampshire Churches and their Treasures No 12 Exton
Solve this chronogram in the Hampshire church of St Peter and St Paul in Exton and then discover more about John Young, the man who wrote his own epitaph.
Read MoreHampshire Church Treasures No 8. Soberton St Peter’s
Another Hampshire church treasure, found in St Peter’s church Soberton, linked to the tulip mania of the C17th
Read MoreHampshire Church Treasures 3: All Saints Church East Meon
Another Hampshire Church Treasure resides in All Saints East Meon, the simple plaque found in the east wall has a curious tale behind it
Read MoreThe Chalk Streams of Hampshire
The chalkstreams of Hampshire offer some of the best fly fishing in the world but they offer so much more than that. The history of Hampshire is inextricably bound up in the valley’s of the Itchen, the Test and the Meon. Investigate Hampshire History and find out what this wonderful county in southern England has to offer
Read MoreSaxon Corhampton Church
When considering Anglo Saxon Hampshire, the little church at Corhampton has to be the jewel in the crown, with Saxon features springing from its feet upwards.
Read MoreOld Winchester Hill
Old Winchester Hill is one of Hampshire’s most ancient historical sites, situated on a chalk ridge spur
Read MoreSt Wilfred in Hampshire
St Wilfred came to Hampshire to convert the heathen tribes of the Meonwara to Christianity
Read MoreEast Meon and the Bishops of Winchester
The history of East Meon is closely connected with the Bishops of Winchester, whose influence in this ancient manor date back to pre- Norman times.
Read MoreSt John’s House Warnford c1209
This is a rare example of a C13th manor hall in England. Built in 1209 in Warnford in Hampshire
Read MoreSaint Wilfrid in Warnford
The parish church of Warnford sits in woodland rather as it might have done when it was founded in AD 682, nestling by the River Meon
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