St. Peter's Church, Petersfield, Hampshire

We started out for a walk in the park with our little charge, Paddy, but the weather didn't cooperate so we decided to ride to Petersfield in Hampshire to have a look about and see if we need to spend more time here. Short answer: yes we do.

While here, we walked to the church on the edge of the central square, St. Peter's.

Winchester Cathedral

The cathedral has many of these Chantries. These are small chapels in which some bishop or other wealthy, important person paid to have prayers said over them. A bit like a private church within a church for the deceased to get prayed into heaven.

Winchester Cathedral - Continuing to Look Up

The brick laid out on the ground to one side of the cathedral shows the outline of the Anglo-Saxon church that was here before the Normans began building the impressive cathedral you see today.

Winchester Cathedral

On a dreary day (what? no sun in Britain in the winter?), we headed over to Winchester to have a look at the famous cathedral there. I suppose that I should break into a couple lines of the chorus here:

Winchester Cathedral, you're bringin' me downYou stood and you watched as my baby left town

But I won't.

Watercress Line of the Mid-Hants Railway

We drove across the border (quite close to Farnham) to Hampshire (often shortened to Hants) to Alresford to ride in the trained pulled by a steam engine...the Watercress Line.

The Marina at Fareham

One of our first outings from Farnham was down to the southern coast near Portsmouth. We stopped at Fareham for a quick leg-stretch with out four-legged charge and had a look about the marina.

Titchfield Abbey

Once we got settled into our new house sit in Farnham, we headed out for a look at Titchfield Abbey. This abbey was first built in the 13th century After Henry VIII confiscated all the church property, he gave this place to Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton who transformed it into a Tudor mansion.