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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 '.
Hambledon is a rural scattered village in the Waverley borough of Surrey, situated south of Guildford. It is dominated by a buffer zone of fields and woodland, mostly south of the Greensand Ridge escarpment between Witley and Chiddingfold , having no dual carriageways or railways; however, it is bordered to the west by the Portsmouth Direct ...
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.
Feb 26, 2019 · Places to Live. Things to do in Hambledon and facts you might not know. Illustration by Lucy Atkinson (Image: Archant) By Faith Eckersall. 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.
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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 ...
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Located 7 miles south west of Guildford in the Borough of Waverley. Hambledon is small in size, but large in character and history, the charming village is well worth a visit.
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