Weyhill

Just west of Andover, on the main A342, (A303 not far to the south east) Weyhill and its history is barely suggested by what is there now.

A smelly Indian restaurant (OK, all their windows and doors were open).

This rather fine church and a substantial pub, 'The Weyhill Fair', named after a medieval fair, starting in the 11th century. Hardy mentions it in his Mayor of Casterbridge, (as Weydon Priors) where Michael Henchard sells his wife. 

Not having read any Hardy, of more interest to me is that 8 ancient tracks converged here and so the Fair became a huge livestock market, in use right up until 1957. 

There was a railway station, but which closed in 1961. No railway line exists either.

(info from Wikipedia, so it MUST be correct....)

Dominated by the main road, from which my half hourly bus took me to and from, it would be easy to say that very little remains of its former glory. I expect there might well be good walking but I did not feel any compulsion to stay longer.