Wadwick is not actually a part of St.Marybourne. It has it's own signpost!! It is at the end of a small lane which is between St.Marybourne, Binley and Egbury. It is a dead end with just a couple of houses and a farm at the end of it. Check it out on the OS Map Explorer 144 Basingstoke Alton and Whitchurch. 43, 53 or Long 1deg 23min, Lat 51deg 16.5min. There are some really nice walks around there. Right now the trees are in bud, the catkins hanging delicately from the trees and there are long patches of frothy white where the Hawthorn is in flower. The fields are starting to show green, all the daffodils are coming out at the manor house at Binley. There's a bank nearby which becomes yellow with Cowslips, the woods will soon be carpeted with bluebells and the primroses will smother the banks along side the road and into the woods. There are deer, pheasants, rabbits and hares to be seen and if you're really lucky the occasional fox to be seen. To make it even more delightful the sheep in the fields around will soon have their lambs and they are always a delight to watch. It really is a lovely area. I take my mum and an elderly friend round there most weeks at this time of the year, especially when the sun is out as it's so lovely I'll probably be around that way in the next few days so will check it out. I can take some pics if whoever's looking for it mails me. Best wishes Bev

Thank you for that lovely mental picture Bev - when I win the lottery I will be buying one of those farms!!! Although Road Whale from Andover, says it is very muddy in the winter - so I will have a house in Andover as well for that time!!!!! I asked about the hamlet originally because I was doing a lookup for someone off-list and when listing where people were born, I came upon Wadwick. I looked in my gazetteer and it wasn't listed, so checked Chris' site and still did not find it. Tony and Linda soon put me right though, as it is listed on Chris' site under Binley and Wadwick. It sounds really lovely .Thanks also for your very kind offer to photograph but I think the lady is just delighted to have found nephews and nieces of her direct line. However, Chris might be very pleased to put them up on his Southern Life web site as some delightful spring pictures of such a lovely little hamlet. Especially as he is still "confined to barracks" for a few more weeks and cannot get out and about round the villages himself. Also I am now very eager to see this pretty place bedecked in spring flowers. Best wishes, Moya Page (nee Banting) researching BANTING and PERREN in Hampshire . ----- Original Message ----- From: Beverley Wadhams To: HAMPSHIRE-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 10:00 AM Subject: [HantsLife] Wadwick - where to find it. Wadwick is not actually a part of St.Marybourne. It has it's own signpost!! It is at the end of a small lane which is between St.Marybourne, Binley and Egbury. It is a dead end with just a couple of houses and a farm at the end of it. Check it out on the OS Map Explorer 144 Basingstoke Alton and Whitchurch. 43, 53 or Long 1deg 23min, Lat 51deg 16.5min. There are some really nice walks around there. Right now the trees are in bud, the catkins hanging delicately from the trees and there are long patches of frothy white where the Hawthorn is in flower. The fields are starting to show green, all the daffodils are coming out at the manor house at Binley. There's a bank nearby which becomes yellow with Cowslips, the woods will soon be carpeted with bluebells and the primroses will smother the banks along side the road and into the woods. There are deer, pheasants, rabbits and hares to be seen and if you're really lucky the occasional fox to be seen. To make it even more delightful the sheep in the fields around will soon have their lambs and they are always a delight to watch. It really is a lovely area. I take my mum and an elderly friend round there most weeks at this time of the year, especially when the sun is out as it's so lovely I'll probably be around that way in the next few days so will check it out. I can take some pics if whoever's looking for it mails me. Best wishes Bev ==== HAMPSHIRE-LIFE Mailing List ==== This is YOUR list so please treat it the way you wish yourself treated. Remember: "FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION" It comes bundled with the software! ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Message From: "Beverley Wadhams" <Bev.Wadhams@tesco.net> catkins hanging delicately from the trees... daffodils are coming out at the manor....a bank...yellow with Cowslips, woods will soon be carpeted with bluebells and primroses will smother the banks ~~~~~ The English spring - how I miss it, made worse by the fact that we'll soon be facing winter here. Oh, to have a home in both places & half the year in each !! Maureen, NZ