At least the rain held off!
Corhampton and Meonstoke churches are only two hundred yards apart, on opposite sides of the river, but there is a folk memory of friendly(?) rivalry going back centuries to the time when Corhampton was settled by Saxons and Meonstoke by Jutes. The 13th C church at Meonstoke is said to have been built because of a reluctance to go to the older 11th C church at Corhampton. There was no bridge across the river until the turnpike era in the early 19th C.
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Corhampton Church
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Meonstoke Church
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Meonstoke has still got the old bier used to wheel coffins around
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River Meon with water crowfoot
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They raise sheep in that part of Hampshire ...
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... and dandelions!
War does not determine who is right, only who is left - Bertrand Russell
Chichester 12m asl