This view along the
main street towards
the Market Square
displays an air of rural
pragmatism, with
several of the shops
displaying their wares
for inspection outside.
Thatched cottages line the main street, and the village stores on the right has signs in the window for Brooke Bond Tea, as well as Kodak and Ilford photographic stock.
The factory buildings in this picture have gone, and today this sprawling village is popular with those who work in Andover and commute daily to London.
The steep valleys, or cloughs, which run off the foothills of the Pennines were often utilised by Victorian water engineers for the construction of reservoirs to provide drinking water for the burgeoning
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