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Hambledon is a small village and civil parish in the county of Hampshire in England, situated about 10 miles (16 km) north of Portsmouth within the South Downs National Park. Broadhalfpenny Down Hambledon is best known as the 'Cradle of Cricket '.
Feb 26, 2019 · The village of Hambledon is on the ball when it comes to sparkling wine and soft drinks. A Look Back In Time. History began for Hambledown during the Bronze Age. By 100 AD, however, the Romans had moved in, establishing a villa at Bury Lodge.
The name Hambledon may mean 'the homestead in the downs' or Hamela's Down. In Saxon days Hambledon belonged to the Abbey of St.Peter, St. Paul and St.Swithin at Winchester. The...
May 26, 2019 · If you know your duck from your rabbit and are excitedly anticipating the England v South Africa game that will launch us into the Cricket World Cup on Thursday, you will recognise the name...
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Hambledon has been inhabited for thousands of years. In 1997 stone axes were found in West Street. They were made about 2,500 BC. At that time people in England lived by farming but they made stone tools. Much later there was a Roman villa by Bury Lodge. However, ‘modern’ Hambledon began as a Jutish or Saxon village. Hambledon first appeared in his...
In 1612 another change came. Hambledon was allowed 2 annual fairs. (In those days fairs were like markets but they were held only once a year and they attracted buyers and sellers from a wide area). One fair was held on the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin (2 February). The other was held on St Matthew’s Day (21 September). In 1725 H...
The state did not provide education until 1870 but earlier the churches provided schools. A national (Church of England) school was built in Hambledon in 1849. (It is now Hambledon Infants School). In 1853 William Cobbett wrote about Hambledon: ‘It is a long, straggling village lying a little valley formed of pretty but not lofty hills’. Hambledon ...
Hambledon is a small village and civil parish in the county of Hampshire, situated about 15 miles north of Portsmouth. The village is best known as the 'Cradle of Cricket'. It is thought that the club is one of the oldest cricket clubs known and was formed about 1750.
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Hambledon has a long and rich history, accessible in a book written by John Goldsmith. The name is thought to date from 956 CE, but with evidence of Iron Age settlement and a RomanVilla on the...
