The Mystery of Anne Steel Hymn Writer
Anne Steele Hampshire
Read MoreThe Broughton Dovecote
The Broughton dovecote is an unusual piece of architecture sitting in the churchyard of St Marys but what is even more interesting is the mechanism unseen inside.
Read MoreSt Mary Magdalene West Tisted
St Mary Magdalene church in West Tisted is one of Hampshire’s hidden gems. To find it involves taking a small path over a moat. The church sits within the grounds of a manor house whose history is tied up with the English Civil War and the Tichborne family. The church itself is much older, early…
Read MoreChurch of St Thomas a Becket Warblington
The church of St Thomas a Becket in Warblington, sits on the southern shore of the county of Hampshire and is Anglo Saxon in origin
Read MoreChurch St Peter & St Paul Kimpton
The delightful church of St Peter and St Paul in Kimpton is approached through an avenue of fruit trees
Read MoreThe Mysteries of Wymering Manor
Wymering Manor in Portsmouth is one of Hampshire’s oldest and allegedly, most haunted houses. From the outside it presents a bit of a sorry state and its exterior belies its ancient past but it is a house full on intrigue and mystery.
Read MoreHyde Winchester
King Alfred the Great and Hyde Abbey in Winchester are synonymous with each other but what was Hyde and why was King Alfred buried there?
Read MoreKing Alfred’s Will
The will of King Alfred is a rare beast, only one other will of an Anglo Saxon king has survived
Read MoreFamily Names of The United Kingdom
A publicly accessible online database of surnames will be available in 2014 thanks to a great project being developed at the University of the West of England The study of the origins of surnames has largely been the preserve of those who study genealogy but like place names, they are an intriguing link back to…
Read MoreDataVis Network Diagrams
HGS Embedded Data Visualisation Prototype Testing This is an exploratory and experimental demonstration using nodal graphing and network diagram techniques around the density ad incidence of a sample of 7,500+ Family History Records Summarised as a SURNAME Network Map. It demonstrates how the maths of Graphing theory overcomes the relatively inflexible structure of the traditional…
Read MoreHow can You Survey 5 Million Books in Less than 5 Secs?
If in 5 seconds you could glean some relevant data and insights from a text database (known as Corpra) searching 500 Billion Words in the process, would you be impressed? Books are wonderful things and with Ebooks, Ereaders, Tablets whatever the type or platform it has never been easier to read on the go and…
Read MoreSt Mary the Virgin Silchester Pagan, Roman, Christian Site
St Mary the Virgin Silchester Hampshire, is a Christian church, on a Pagan site, inside the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum, now known as Silchester. It has many fascinating artefacts, revealing its long history.
Read MoreThe Silchester Project
The Silchester Project is an archaeological project undertaken by the University of Reading into the Roman town of Calleva Atrebatum in Hampshire. Visit to see the best preserved Roman town walls in Britain.
Read MoreThe Terraced Cottage Chapel Buckler’s Hard
St Mary’s Chapel Buckler’s Hard is half hidden in a row of terraced houses in the old ship building village close to Bealieu. Inside is the Sir Francis Chichester Memorial.
Read MoreCharles Dickens Statue Porstmouth
The Charles Dickens Statue Guildhall Square Portsmouth was unveiled on 7th February 2014, two hundred years after his birth in the city of Portsmouth.
Read MoreOld Blue Boar Inn Winchester
The Old Blue Boar Inn in Winchester is over six hundred years old built just before the Black Death visited Hampshire with such devastating results We are blessed in Hampshire with a wealth of ancient buildings, Saxon and Norman churches, Medieval houses, Tudor cottages, the list is endless but sometimes the very survival of a…
Read MoreSt Mary’s Church Avington
St Mary’s Church Avington is a wonderful example of a virtually untouched, Georgian church. With wonderful box pews and beautiful barrel ceiling. The memorial to Lady Carnarvon is particularly interesting.
Read MoreEling Tide Mill
Eling tidal mill is a rare mill, not just in Britain but in the world. There has been a mill on the site for at least a thousand years, the present building dates from about the 1780’s. It still mills flour and is set in the lovely area of Eling Quay.
Read MoreSt Mary’s Church Eling
St Mary’s church Eling, has been in existence since Anglo Saxon times and sits above the Eling Tide Mill and Eling Quay. It contains a Titanic memorial to three parishioners who lost their lives in the disaster.
Read MoreSt Mary the Virgin Old Alresford
The church of St Mary the Virgin Old Alresford Hampshire was built in the C18th next to the house where Nelson’s Admiral Rodney lived and where Mary Sumner, founder of the Mother’s Union was the rector’s wife.
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