Hello all yes agree with Moya sounds a lovely place., we honestly wouldn't have known it was on Hampshire Life website any more than you Moya if it hadn't been for a google search......we feel guilty now for not seeing it there:-)) Sorry Chris! Linda & Tony > 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 >