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The town’s Church Fête was held today in its usual spot: the lawn of Lord Denning’s estate, opposite the parish church.
You can have a look at the photos that I took - they’re all in our gallery (you can click on a thumbnail of a picture in the gallery to see a medium sized version; [...]

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This town of ours keeps on wow-ing us. Today was the first carnival and procession in the town since 1996 - and you could tell the event has been sorrily missed. The king, queen, prince and princesses were all in attendance, too!
The creativity and fun shown was second to none. Heck, it [...]

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This afternoon, we joined up with Kudrat and most of his kids to have a “power picnic” on the Millennium Meadow.  As usual, there are lots of photos of the event!
The power was supplied by the turbo-charged (it seemed) power lawn mower owned by the Millennium Green Trust. The picnic was supplied by Katya.
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This past Sunday saw the return of the Whitchurch Pub Race - something that hasn’t been seen around these parts for well over a decade (so the locals tell me). Thankfully, the rain cleared up by Sunday afternoon, just in time for the race.
Andrew is the official photographer of this year’s revived Whitchurch Festival [...]

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We awoke to the normal thump, bump, prrr, ouch! that is our lot. Tolii and Tosha, plus our cats jumped into our bed to wake us up.
After a bit of bouncing (and granted, a short snooze after we calmed them down); we decided it was time to get up and open the blinds.
Oh my [...]

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Redirecting you to the Whitchurch Design Statement…

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Redirecting you to the Whitchurch Pub Guide…

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Redirecting you to the Whitchurch Festival site…

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Redirecting you to the forums at The Whitchurch Web…
Note: the forum is not run by me!

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You can search the (B&DBC) Basingstoke & Deane Borough Council’s list of planning applications.
I have made comments on several applications for development around Whitchurch. I hope that you might be inspired and encouraged to do the same. This is a pretty and historical market town dating back over a thousand years…
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Whitchurch, Hampshire, UK is located just north of the cross-roads of the A34 and A303. To the north of it is Newbury, to the south Winchester, to the east Basingstoke and to the west Andover:
Area around Whitchurch, Hampshire, UK.
 
In 1888 the Star newspaper famously reported:
Whitchurch is in Hampshire.
People who live IN [...]

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Not even a hail storm could prevent our annual Easter Egg hunt from going ahead.
The eggs weren’t really egg-shaped: they were in the shape of bugs, chickens, bunnies and very big bunnies (all from Lidl).
We descended upon the Whitchurch Millennium Meadow for the event. There’s even more photos in our gallery.
There were lots of [...]

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The plans for the redevelopment of the site that used to have the “temporary” (from the 1970s!) library show a really ugly set of buildings.
I added my comments to the plans at the Basingstoke & Dean Borough Council (B&DBC) website. It showed the status as still being in “consultation” even though the notices [...]

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It was the first day of spring…and the daffodils at the All Hallows Church were in full bloom. The bunnies were quite active too! More photos are in our gallery.

The construction of the new housing development, Park View, on the other side of the old railway line is well underway.

The newly [...]

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