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All Saints, Hannington, Hampshire

If you don't think you've taken a wrong turning, because that little narrow single-track road seems to go on forever, you will eventually arrive at Hannington. It's a quintessentially correct and proper English village, with little hidden byways, glorious old cottages, and what should be used as the template for any English village green.

But mention the word Hannington to anybody around Berkshire, Hampshire and Wiltshire and you'll get 'oh yes, that's where our radio and TV programmes are transmitted from', because not far away lies - or rather points proudly skyward - the massive Hannington antenna of Hannington Transmitting Station on Cottington Hill. I've included my picture of the mast here.

The church sits - of course - right next to the green, and while its graves and graveyard have nothing particularly unusual about them, the whole flavour of the place fits the perfect English village flavour.

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