9. Room with a view

This is just about my favourite Hampshire churchyard and I've blipped here before. It's St Andrew's Church, set high on the hillside above the tiny village of Chilcomb. The lane finishes at the church and there's a stiff walk up through the woods behind. In front you see this wonderful sweep of hills on the westerly edge of the South Downs just outside Winchester. It's where I'd like to end up.

The churchyard itself is beautiful in a fairly wild way - a small tree-hung triangle with mown grass paths and the rest left for rabbits, wildflowers, butterflies and bees. And if you look carefully, a gravestone in the centre of the picture, buried in grass, and one on the left.

This is no. 9 in my WW1 project on Hampshire country churchyards, because these tiny old churches are where families must have come to grieve for the sons and husbands who never came home. Repositories of grief, but also places of great peace.

So that's my blip for the day. Hasta manana xx