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The A31/A32 Junction and Alton Bypass has now been built on the former trackbed

Thanks for the insight - I must walk that stretch of Stane Street to Bignor.

Every 1st Saturday of the month West Meon Saturday 07-12-24

Clearly someone doesn’t want here at Love4Life this year RIP😭😢😥🥺😿

Great video & really interesting. Shame about the negative reviews

Great video, really well made. You've inspired me to put this on my list of trips for next year.

Hi Murray, just found this and I thoroughly enjoyed it, particularly with the evocative soundtrack! I used to ride my bike round most of that area when I was around 12 years old (76 now)! Knew it well, or so I thought, having missed most of what you’ve shown here, albeit 2010! Time to take a walk next summer, assuming I’m still firing on both cylinders! Thanks and Cheers!

The mid Hants Railway Between Alresford and Winchester closed in 1973 RIP😭😢😥🥺😿

I’m really sorry to hear that the Meon Valley Railway close by British railways in 1955 even though I haven’t seen it in real life despite being unaffected by the beeching cuts

The 1975 track was a preservation attempt was it not ?? Wasn't it David Shepherd and his locos ? He had no where to house his collection after the Army closed the Long Moor Military railway .

The Meon Valley is so nice !! My Father and the family used to drive along it in the 70s in our old Ford Corsair, to visit the Aunt and Grandmother ! The railway was clearly visible then. (and also earlier in the journey ,passing under the Mid Hants line at Odiham .Not knowing then, years later ,the track would be put back ! )l remember the Watercress beds then !Not many now !! Years later in the 1990s l would move south for work ,moving to not far from here ! l would frequent the White Horse pub in Droxford quite often in the 90s!

Great video journey down a familiar route, which I walked in 1967/8, when Droxford was the HQ of Sadler Vectrail, a project to test a luxury railbus for use on the Isle of Wight but, as far as I know, it never was. Thanks for the reminder - super narration, photography and editing!

I lived in east tisted from1984 to 1988 and was always intrigued by the line.

Ghost Train and Sad Steam Whistle

The poor challenge week trips out Oaklands Waterlooville 2010 onwards will all be sadly missed may they all Rest In Peace RIP😭😢😥🥺😿it was time for them to retire

as a technical scientific FACT..... for the fraction of a second you are at the top of your jump, you are "for all intents and purposes" weightless

Very nice

Кто после Гнуса?

777 views aha

Sad thing was, it had been built to mainline standards as a fast route down to the Portsmouth area but the hoped-for traffic never materialized, so it was never more than a quiet branch line.

I wonder if there are any rabbits or hares?💖🐰

Thanks for the education

I thank our narrator for shedding some light on this important piece of English history. He comes off as being a bit glib and even disdainful of the whole phenomenon of the pilgrim's way. It's typical of the Englishman's view of our own history. We exude a fashionably hiply Left perspective of those backward days. Despite this, the team, through some skilled photography, honours the countryside and through this the significance of the pilgrimage itself. I suspect this reflects the true feelings of our narrator who seems fearful of the earnestness needed to relate the significance of this story and its place in Western culture. Trust yourself, mate, and the real feeling you had for putting the effort in, in the first place.

I wonder if there are any rabbits or hares? 👍💕🐰

Need jib that silly music ruined

Where can I find the full documentary please?

She is smiling as she pushes me away. “So tell me this story.” We lie back, her head on my shoulder, and, as if I ordered them, the stars are clear and bright. There are millions of them. I say, “There was this famous British astronomer named Sir Patrick Moore. He hosted a BBC television program called Sky at Night, which ran for something like fty-ve years. Anyway, on April 1, 1976, Sir Patrick Moore announced on his show that something extraordinary was getting ready to happen in the skies. At exactly 9:47 a.m., Pluto would pass directly behind Jupiter, in relation to the earth. This was a rare alignment that meant the combined gravitational force of those two planets would exert a stronger tidal pull, which would temporarily counteract gravity here on earth and make people weigh less. He called this the JovianPlutonian gravitational eect.” Violet is heavy against my arm, and for a minute I wonder if she’s asleep. “Patrick Moore told viewers that they could experience the phenomenon by jumping in the air at the exact moment the alignment occurred. If they did, they would feel weightless, like they were oating.” She shifts a little. “At 9:47 a.m., he told everyone, ‘Jump now!’ Then he waited. One minute passed, and the BBC switchboard lit up with hundreds of people calling in to say they’d felt it. One woman phoned from Holland to say she and her husband had swum around the room together. A man called from Italy to say he and his friends had been seated at a table, and all of them-including the table-rose into the air. Another man called from the States to say he and his children had own like kites in their backyard.” Violet is propped up now, looking at me. “Did those things actually happen?” “Of course not. It was an April Fool’s joke.” She smacks my arm and lies back down. “You had me believing.” “But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I’moating.” In a minute, she says, “You’re so weird, Finch. But that’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me.”

Excellent. Proud to say I recognised that lovely view from Barlavington Down. Great video!

I grew up in Fareham and vividly recall the celebration and grief of the last train on the Meon Valley Line. My first insight into the futility of communities trying to stand against "economic realities" championed by government.

Very good, enjoyed this!

The U.S. version of the Mosquito was called the P38 Lightning and was built in Marietta Georgia just 50 miles from where I live and my fathers Aunt worked at the plant.

Great video would love to go there and take this walk .

Huskisson's "fortune" - he owned slaves! I think this unfortunate part of our national history shouldn't be glossed over. He did fight for better conditions but was by no means an abolitionist.

Why start in Slindon? Stane Street famously connects Chichester with London, and doesn’t travel through Slindon.

What omg I want to live there

Lifes full of dreams follow one of many ,even the stars if you care to look up Sir Patrick Moore 1987 Leicester uni lecture hall

I stumbled on what I came to learn was the Meon Valley line during a 'literary walk' from Chawton (Jane Austen's house) to Faringdon earlier this year. Fascinating video filling the gap in my knowledge!.

Humour , history , and a voice that l can listen to - what more can I ask ?

What a beautiful video. Suitably elegiac!

Not exactly informative, only once was there any context about Stane st, and otherwise almost nothing about it, just stories about folks that live along the way, disappointed

Keep them coming (please!!)

Great video! Used to go to school in Slindon abd walk round there bought back happy memories

Another great walk,thanks.

Brilliant, thanks.

Charming. What a splendid video. Thanks. I have recently moved to Hampshire where I am discovering these wonderful walks.

you make me lovely and it's so lovely to be lovely by the one i love

Aw, this video misses out the good part. Yes, he was hit by the train, but there was more to it than that - it was almost entirely his own fault that it happened. When the Rocket was approaching, it was announced. Some people would travel to the platform while others stayed in the island between tracks. Huskisson did the latter but then panicked thinking there wasn't enough room and so began crossing the tracks. He then panicked again and turned around. Then deciding that it still wasn't safe, he tried to climb the carriage he was standing in front of, only for the unlatched door to swing open, causing him to be hit by the train. A most unfortunate (but tragically comedic) way to go. Like a Wile E Cyote cartoon/

you are all the colours in one, at full brightness. -theodore finch

gelukkig bestaan nog vele oude bomen en...worden hogelijk gewaardeerd door o.a. mensen; thanks "Great Spirit".

Pronounced Hill-ary, not Hill-air.