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John Pounds Altruist and Teacher
John Pounds shoe maker, teacher and altruist lived and worked in Old Portsmouth in the early C19th and the inspiration for the ragged school movement.
Read MoreQuebec House Old Portsmouth
Quebec House in Old Portsmouth Hampshire, is an old bathing house built in 1754 and rich with history.
Read MoreA Georgian Hampshire Scandal
The Georgian scandal of Elizabeth Chudleigh was played out in no small part in the beautiful Lainston House Hampshire, now a hotel . Within the bounds of this house near Winchester a marriage took place that would place one of the party in Westminster Hall charged with bigamy.
Read MoreGreat Families at Stratfield Saye
The history of Stratfield Saye in Hampshire is intricately woven into the lives of several great families going back as far as the C12th.
Read MoreKnights Enham a Saxon Royal Estate
Knights Enham consists of a small church and a cluster of buildings but this place has Saxon origins and is the place where Saxon kings came and met with archbishops to discuss the role of church and kingship.
Read MoreChristchurch Hatherden
Christchurch Hatherden, the church was badly damaged in 1975 as a result of a lightning strike, but has now been completely restored.
Read MoreThe Tangley font a rare thing
The Tangley font is a rare font, at least in Hampshire. This is a lead font and unique in the realm of Hampshire history.
Read MoreWater Babies in Hampshire
The Water Babies was a children’s novel written by Charles Kingsley, rector of Eversley and inspired by the grounds and building of Bramshill House Hampshire.
Read MoreThe Grange Northington
The Grange Northington is s stunning example of the Classical Greek Revival style of architecture. Only the exterior can be viewed but it is worth every effort to make the visit to see it.
Read MoreThe Waltham Blacks
In 1723 the Black Act became law in England, it was a draconian law that caused great suffering in the population. The Waltham Blacks, operating in the forests of Hampshire were executed for their courageous actions.
Read MoreHartley Wespall Church
Hartley Wespall church has is a timber framed C14th structure with a glorious roof which is repeated at the west gable and visible from the outside.
Read MoreHangman Hawley and Scotland
The connection between Scotland and Hampshire at the time of Union can be found in the grave of Henry Hawley at Hartley Wintney Hmpshire
Read MoreTudor Bramshott Place
The tudor house at Bramshott Place has long gone but its gatehouse still stands, albeit in splendid isolation. There was a manor and estate at Bramshott at the time of Domesday. By the late C16th a wealthy cloth merchant from Godalming named John Hooke purchased the esate and built for himself and his family, a…
Read MoreYew Tree Newton Valance Church Yard
The yew tree in Newton Valance church yard is probably a thousand years old, before the Normans set foot here.
Read MoreSt Boniface and Nursling
A man named Winfrith and born in Devon became known as the ‘Apostle of Germany’. The humble Winfrith became St Boniface and his story started to take root in Nursling Hampshire. At Nursling (Bede refered to it as Nhutscelle), where the River Test winds towards the sea, one of the earliest Benedictine monastries was founded.…
Read MoreWymering Fields Cosham
This image of the Wymering Fields Cosham, is a reminder of a time when this suburb of Portsmouth was a rural area of farms and fields. To the south of Wymering the mudflats of the tidal shore, it sits tucked under the chalk hills at Portsdown north of Portsmouth. After much reclamation and the passage…
Read MoreSt Simon and St Jude Bramdean
In the ‘valley where the broom grows’, well actually not in the valley but sitting high above it, is the church of St Simon and St Jude Bramdean. You do not glimpse it from the road but this C12th church gazes down on its community, well above the winter bourne that floods the road below…
Read MoreWWI Guy Victor Baring Northington
Guy Victor Baring is remembered in Northington Church by amongst other things a simple wooden cross. Just another poignant reminder of the lives given by Hampshire men in WWI.
Read MoreSt Leonard’s Church Grateley
St Leonard’s church Grateley, is a wonderful piece of Norman architecture and custodian of some of the earliest English glass in the country.
Read MoreSaxons 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.
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