Tag: history
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Mottisfont
Following last week’s traumatic walk, we decided to be a bit more civilised and go for a bit of culture this week with a visit to the National Trust property and gardens at Mottisfont, near Romsey. Before I start, I caught a piece on the BBC breakfast show a few days after our Whitchurch walk,…
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Whitchurch
Well, what a day we had today. We intended to venture out to the very pretty village of St Mary Bourne, where there are numerous walks and a little village cafe. Unfortunately the weather was against us so we drove to Laverstoke, where we waited in the car in the hope that the rain would…
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Silchester
It was a gloriously sunny day for a return visit to the Roman walls of Silchester. While most Roman towns in Britain were subsequently occupied or developed, obscuring or destroying the record of Roman life, this was not the case at Silchester. The walls, which are some of the best preserved Roman town defences In England, and…