Odiham, Chalk Pit 1903
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French soldiers were held as prisoners at Odiham during the Napoleonic wars, living in a camp dug out of an old chalk pit on the Alton road. According to some sources, they also helped to construct the nearby Basingstoke Canal. Odiham churchyard contains the graves of several French prisoners.
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My brother Joe is buried in Odiham He was in the Royal Air Force.
Julian's hunt story is almost right. I was living at the Chalk Pit at the time, and still do. It was about 1981, on a Saturday lunchtime, when the hunt came over the top, but it wasn't on Boxing Day. The hounds were chasing Hares. The leader of the hunt knew there was a main road so directed the hunt across the field. The Hare was chased through a hole in the hedge at the top of the Pit, and the dogs followed ...see more
The chalk pit at Odiham looks much the same today as it did over 100 years ago, except that most of the buildings are no longer there. An old story I heard in the The Bell Pub, mentioned the local hunt gathering in the Bury Square on boxing day some years ago. They left in the direction of the Chalk Pit on a foggy morning, only to lose half of the poor hunting dogs over the shear face of the cliff. It seems the wily old fox had the better of them on this occasion.
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