Last  Week's  Photographs

I imagine this image resembles most people's idea of what a typical English country cottage would look like.

All photographs © David Packman

Nether Wallop certainly has no shortage of attractive thatched cottages.

Middle Wallop is mainly known for being the home of the Army Air Corps and the Museum of Army Flying. The Beaver and Scout helicopter are just two of the many exhibits at the museum.

Squirrel training helicopter - One thing you're always aware of when visiting the Wallops are the helicopters frequently flying overhead. Middle Wallop airfield opened in 1940, although it was intended to be a bomber airfield when it became operational it was as a fighter station with the arrival of 609 Squadron. The airfield was part of 10 Fighter Group during the Battle of Britain and suffered from many air raids.

The village church of St. Andrew is described as a Saxon Church with Norman additions and of flint construction. It's also home to some rare Mediaeval and Jacobean wall paintings.

The flint Tower dates to the early 18th century.

One of the rare wall paintings shows the Patron Saint of England, "Saint George slaying the Dragon". These paintings are by artists of the Winchester School who worked here around 1020 AD. They are the only known Anglo Saxon wall paintings to survive in situ.

The churchyard sits on the side of the hill next to the church.

Near the entrance to the church is the large pyramid shaped tomb of Dr Francis Douce (1760). The tomb was built by his cousin Paulet St John who also built another pyramid at Farley Mount four miles west of Winchester. The pyramid at Farley Mount is a monument to a horse, called "Beware Chalk Pit". The inscription on the plaque reads: Underneath lies buried a horse, the property of Paulet St. John Esq., that in the month of September 1733 leaped into a chalk pit twenty-five feet deep a foxhuntiing with his master on his back and in October 1734 he won the Hunters Plate on Worthy Downs and was rode by his owner and was entered in the name of "Beware Chalk Pit".

...and finally we're back where we started last week.                                                   All photographs © David Packman

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