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Andover
History
In The 19th-cent St Mary Church was built by a former
headmaster of Winchester, it was built in a early English style and set on a hill, it stands out well from its
surroundings.
Also worth a visit is the Museum, which contains geological and
archaeological remains.
Andover is central, and has many places of interest.
one mile south west of the town is an early Iron Age camp named Bury Hill, which gives good
views over the countryside
There are many pretty villages in the area, Abbots Ann has
charm and is linked to an interesting custom.
The church was rebuilt in 1716,
hanging white paper garlands right up to this century they were carried at the
funerals of maidens and bachelors who were "reputed to have died virgins", as
Gilbert White of selborne delicately phrases it.
Amport lies nearby, and has
thatched cottages, a green, and a stream trickling through it.
Amport House is a
19th-cent. Elizabethan house belonging to the Marques of Winchester.
A little further West is Quarley, almost on the border with Wiltshire. Nearby
Quarley Hill soars to over 560 ft and gives marvellous views. It is a well-known
landmark and has an old Iron Age hill-fort, excavated in 1938, and Bronze Age
boundary ditches can also be seen.
Long parish, just south east of Andover, has a long main street, as its name would
indicate. It is set on the Test and has attractive thatched cottages.
To the NW.
is Hiarwood Forest, with a beech avenue leading from the Andover road to
Dead man's Plack, which commemorates the murder of Ethelwu
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