On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:30:29 +0100 "Barbara Mallyon" <[email protected]> wrote: > What do we know about a place called Old Burghclere, with a Church > called "All Saints". My Grandmother was buried there on 5 April 1922 having died not far away at Portridge Pit Cottages. My Mother remembered the coffin being carried on a horse drawn hearse up the hill past Wergs Farm and then down the road to cross over the railway line and into the churchyard. She didn't have a headstone, only a simple wooden cross much like the one in one of those photos, which said "In Loving Memory of our Dear Mother Em 1875-1922 from her three daughters" The photo I have (one of those 3"x2" b&w contact prints) of that cross is the only photo relating to Grandmother that has survived the years since then. I haven't been able to establish just where it was in the churchyard. > The little churchyard with hardly any graves in the usual > expectation of a graveyard, but a great many old - some very old - > gravestones leaning against the perimeter wall. I haven't been there recently but a comment on one of the pics on my website* told me it was very neglected and overgrown. The church is actually in private grounds and access is really only allowed for services but I generally park in the road and walk up to the church. I haven't as yet found it open and I don't know how often it is used for services. > All Saints Old Burghclere, Hampshire. You may see where Old > Burghclere is located in this map, courtesy of www.streetmap.co.uk. > Home. Photographer's comments: ... > www.ukgraves.info/view.asp?id=130 - 11k > > Worth having a look at the photographs. * http://www.startx.co.uk/pictures/new We used to get off the Winchester-Newbury train at Burghclere and walk from there to Ecchinswell when going on summer holidays from Bournemouth. The carrier picked up our cases and delivered them to Mill Lane later on -- John Lewis Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package -- John Lewis Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package