The hidden corners of Winchester College
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Meon Valley: a tour of stunning villages and River Meon
The area around Hambledon has been inhabited from earliest times and worked flints and traces of Iron Age barrows have been found here, as well the remains of a Roman villa. However, the village is best known for cricket and, although the game may not have been invented here, Hambledon has been called the ‘cradle of cricket’ because this is where the rules were first standardised. Today, a commemorative stone stands on the village’s Broadhalfpenny Down, which was the original pitch of the Hambledon Cricket Club. Just opposite is the Bat and Ball Inn, which used to house the clubroom for...
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