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The Bishop's Waltham and Hampshire Bank was founded in 1809 and was later known as Gunner's Bank.

Not far beyond the town the journey through Dorset ends as the boundary of Hampshire is reached.

Peeping above the town's rooftops is the tower of St Michael the Archangel, perhaps the finest of Hampshire's Perpendicular parish churches.

On a clear day much of the wide sweep of the Hampshire coastline could be seen.

When he died in 1914, The Times wrote that he was 'one of the best known and best loved figures among the country gentlemen of Hampshire'.

Peeping above the town's rooftops is the tower of St Michael the Archangel, perhaps the finest of Hampshire's Perpendicular parish churches.

An increasing number of Hampshire's most beautiful buildings were used for this refreshing purpose during the 20th century.

This photograph shows a Cessna aircraft as used by the Hampshire Aeroplane Club in front of an early terminal building, with the control tower and a large hangar on the right.

Long ago, this part of the Hampshire coast consisted of marsh and sandy wastes; it was from here that Henry III amassed his armies to re-conquer France.

Covering some eight acres, this is believed to be the largest chalk pit in Hampshire.

The great Norman church is one of the most impressive in Europe and certainly the finest in Hampshire.

Portsmouth's magnificent Guildhall, one of Hampshire's stateliest civic buildings, was opened in 1890 by the Prince of Wales on behalf of his mother Queen Victoria, who was said to be alarmed by the endless

Boscombe spent much of its history in Hampshire, until bureaucracy reassigned it to the County of Dorset in the 1970s.

the picture is Andover's 19th-century church of St Mary, built in the Early English style by a former headmaster of Winchester College and described as the best Victorian church in Hampshire

On the border between Dorset and Hampshire, Alderholt lies on the edge of the great medieval hunting ground of Cranborne Chase.

Long ago, this part of the Hampshire coast consisted of marsh and sandy wastes; it was from here that Henry III amassed his armies to re-conquer France.

This picturesque village featured in Anna Lea Merritt's book 'A Hamlet in Old Hampshire', published in 1902, describing 19th-century village life.

Built about the time that Jane Austen was writing in Hampshire, the simple but attractive farm house on the left graces a peaceful well-treed rural villagescape.

Harnham Bridge crossed the Hampshire Avon just south of Salisbury between the twin hamlets of East and West Harnham.

Because the difficult alkaline downland soil yielded indifferent crops, for centuries the South Downs were vast sheepwalks; by the 18th century there were 400,000 ewes grazing between Eastbourne and Hampshire

A mile to the west lies Fleet Pond, Hampshire's largest freshwater lake.

Yateley Common, one of the largest commons in Hampshire, has long been famous in the area for Wyndham's Pool, an 18th-century fishpond reservoir.

Christchurch was actually an historic town of Hampshire when this photograph was taken, though it had an undoubted influence on nearby Dorset.

The village lies in the north-east corner of Hampshire, in an area of the county now strewn with busy roads and saturated with housing developments.