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On the Itchen in Hampshire

February 24, 2018 Stephen Barstow Leave a comment

Great family lunch in a pub at Shawford in Hampshire followed by a walk along the river between Shawford and Hampshire

Shawford Down walk down to the village

Old cattle breed on Shawford Down

Pub lunch next to the river…fish and chips and Abbot Ale!

Walk along the Itchen Navigation between Shawford and Eastleigh!

Epilobium hirsutum

Water vole is an endangered species in England, over the North Sea it’s called jordrotte (earth rat) and is feared by gardeners because of the damage they can do!

Bamboo!

My Aunty Margaret lived in these houses and we spent a lot of time as children by the river!

Maybe it was this hous that was my Aunt’s, but without the gnomes and trees where there’s now terassing

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