As the minutes ticked down to midnight on New Year’s Eve, I was suddenly in floods of tears. They were dripping into my glass of bubbly… Was I sorry to see the end of 2017? Was I watching a weepy movie? Had I over-indulged my share of the bottle of champagne? No, none of those! …

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For today’s blog, I am reposting a piece I wrote for the History Girls blog back in October, continuing my series of posts about the communities of the Meon Valley. Corhampton (Quedementune (11th c); Cornhampton (13th); Corhamtone, Cornhamtone and Cornehampton (14th); Corehampton (16th) lies on the west bank of the River Meon, seven miles upstream …

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