This August, we embarked upon a family roadtrip to Scotland and back, via the Lake District. There were a couple of things on my list of things to do and see: at the top was a trip to the Derwent Pencil Museum, but chasing close…
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The River Test flows quietly by itself through much of rural North Hampshire. Relatively few public footpaths coincide with it for any distance, which is probably no surprise when you consider how valuable the river’s banks are in terms of fishing rights. Towns and villages,…
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The River Test has its notional source in the downs a mile from the village of Overton in north Hampshire. Last September, I used public footpaths to follow the river between its source and Overton, where it once powered several mills. The source itself was…
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