Places with Convoluted Stories

The places here on this page are a bit different: they're here because there are personal stories around them. Not, of course that there aren't stories behind the other places, but these are more convoluted.

Leadenham is where my mother lives, and the village spent a lot of time raising money for a new village hall. The Lottery Commission gave them a chunk of money, but when some of the matching funding failed to materialise, the village (population about 500) just shrugged and knuckled down and raised some more. The opening was a very special occasion.

Christchurch, Lymington and Buckler's Hard are on my regular stamping ground. These pictures are location-hunting for a novel by one of my favourite authors, Rosemary Edghill. Met by Moonlight arrived in the post just before I went on a narrow-boat trip. I devoured it, and on the way back was struck by the fact that Christchurch (which Rosemary picked from a gazetteer had once been in Hampshire. The rest was a foregone conclusion.