Selborne, The Bostal 1928
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Gilbert White wrote in his diary, in September 1780, 'finished a Bostal or sloping path up the hanger from the foot of the zig-zag to the corner of the Wadden, in length 414 yards.' It gives an easier climb to the top of the Hanger, and it was a shorter route for Gilbert when he visited his friend Richard Yalden of Newton Valence.
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The brother of my 5xgt grandfather William Maxwell, was Thomas Maxwell, born in Harting in 1754. Thomas and Elizabeth's son Henry Maxwell, born 1807 in Harting, was by the census of 1841 living in Selborne with his wife Jane and two sons, Henry Thomas Maxwell and George Alfred Maxwell and daughter Emma Jane. Henry was listed as a Grocer and Draper and this business continued into the 1900s, run by his son ...see more
We lived on the outskirts of selborne, my parents and three brothers and sister, at Lower Noar Hill Farm and Homestead Farm. My great-grandparents, grandparents and parents farmed the land between Selborne Common and Noar Hill for more than 70 years. Before us it was the Ganders, who later emigrated to Canada for health reasons. My other grandparents lived in Goslings Croft in the village. My father was secretary of the ...see more
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