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WWI Memorial Donald Wood Chawton
The church of St Nicholas Chawton has a lovely memorial to a man, Donald Wood, who gave his life fighting for his country in World War I. Whilst visited for its Austen connections its lovely to remember others who also lie here.
Read MoreWW1 Memorial the Tillard Brothers
WWI memorials can be fond in many Hampshire churches. Hampshire History is taking the opportunity to remember some of those who gave their lives. The Tillard brothers died within a few weeks of each other in France in WWI.
Read MoreSaxon Font at Boarhunt?
The ancient church of St Nicholas Boarhunt has a magnificent tub font probably dating from the same period.
Read MoreYew Trees Warblington Church Yard
The yew tree in Warblington church yard is an ancient as the church itself.
Read MoreMeonstoke Font
The font at St Andrew’s church Meonstoke, is a simple C12th example with a beautiful lead lining.
Read MoreSt Mary’s Church Kingsclere
The magnificent church of St Mary’s Kingsclere, sits incongruously at the heart of the small village but once represented a community full of royal and ecclesiastical importance.
Read MoreSt Stephen’s Church Up Nately
St Stephen’s church Up Nately, with its pretty brick tower has its origins in the C12th.
Read MoreThe Royal Pier Southampton
The Royal Pier at Southampton gave access to the ships that the travel hungry Victorians expected. Its wooden structure however meant it was far from an ideal or practical piece of engineering.
Read MoreThe Hayling Ferry 1922
The Hayling Ferry Hampshire 1922 an old postcard image
Read MoreThe Highclere Grampus
The Hampshire folktale of the Grampus of Highclere is surely one of the most peculiar folk stories in Hampshire. A creature that lives in a yew tree?
Read MoreFoxglove Fairies in Froxfield
Hampshire folklore is full of stories concerning the plants and animals of the county and one such piece of folklore surrounds the lovely foxglove, seen in the lanes of various parts of Hampshire.
Read MoreSt Swithun a Humble Man
15th July is St Swithun’s day, if it rains today folklore has it that it will rain for forty days and forty nights. An intriguing piece of Hampshire History
Read MoreThe Chilbolton Wafers
The Chilbolton wafers have been made and distributed to the congregation of St Mary the Less Chilbolton, on Mothering Sunday, for generations.
Read MoreReginald Ponsonby Cox WWI Itchen Stoke
The church at Itchen Stoke holds a very beautiful memorial plaque to Reginald Ponsonby Cox who lost his life in WWI
Read MoreBonham Carter WWI Memorial
In remembrance of those who gave their lives in WWI, Hampshire History will be posting images of WWI memorials and associated artefacts and events,discovered as we travel through Hampshire.
Read MoreDeadman’s Plack Longstock
Deadman’s Plack, Longparish Hampshire, a monument to a deed supposedly committed nearly a thousand years ago, fact or fiction?
Read MoreSt Peter’s Church Ropley
The beautiful old church of St Peter’s Ropley, sits at the heart of the village but today was sadly destroyed by fire.
Read MoreGuy Burgess and West Meon
The remains of Guy Burgess, the Englishman who turned his back on his own country during the Cold War to become a Soviet spy, lie in Hampshire, in West Meon church yard by the grave of his father.
Read MoreEmsworth Oyster Fleet
The Emsworth oyster industry used to supply a 100,000 oysters a week to the London market but the contamination of the bivalve with typhoid and other enteric diseases sent the industry into a spin from which it never recovered.
Read MoreKing John’s House Romsey
King John’s House and the late Tudor extension, form a wonderful collection of Medieval buildings in the heart of Romsey in Hampshire
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