Alresford
The Swing Riots
The Swing Riots in Hampshire. The Swing Riots of 1830 were an uprising by agricultural workers in parts of Eastern and Southern England. It was a civil unrest that was a long time in the making, the stirrings of unrest began in the 1780’s and then during the Napoleonic Wars faded away somewhat. Fifty years…
Read MoreAn Alresford Toilet and the Cold War
What is the connection between New Alresford in Hampshire and the Cold War? Well it might surprise you to know that one of the most unremarkable buildings in Hampshire a toilet block in New Alresford has a vital connection to the Cold War.
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.
Read MoreMary Mitford Hampshire Author
Mary Mitford was an author in the early C19th whose work gives as rich a view of society at that time as that written by Jane Austen, her Hampshire contemporary.
Read MoreNapoleonic Soldiers in Alresford
The five graves of Napoleonic soldiers and wives taken prisoner of war and held on parole at Alresford in Hampshire are a poignant reminder of an unsettled time in English history
Read MoreAlresford Harbour
The dam and resevoir at Alresford is one of the largest and most impressive structures of Medieval England but has it revealed its full purpose?
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