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Finchdean Morning Walk 8th February 2017

The weather stayed dry but a bit on the cold side. We walked to St Hubert's Church at Idsworth which sits in the middle of a field and admired the wall paintings, dating back to 1330. However, later in that same century the entire village was wiped out by successive episodes of the Plague and all signs of the original Anglo Saxon village have long since been ploughed over.  The hill afterwards took us up towards Compton Down and then via a strangely guided route back down to a well earned lunch in The George.  It was a bit surprising to find about 20 sailors on top of the hill. It turned out they were on a day out from submariner training at HMS Sultan in Gosport. 

Leaving Finchdean (oops, found a new camera setting)

Going under the Portsmouth to London railway line

Going to church

St Hubert's down in the valley

Heading for the hill

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Waiting for a horse

Expecting a great lunch at the George.

Just over 5 miles

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