The Little Book of Hampshire

Did You Know?

• The authors of literary classics Watership Down, The Water Babies, Madame Doubtfire and the Little White Horse all lived and wrote in Hampshire, using real places as their inspiration.

• Hampshire's inhabitants include Men of the Trees, Verderers, Green Men and Old Green Bowlers.

• Hampshire is a county of pioneer journeys: & the first flight in a piloted heavier-than-air machine, and the starting point of both the first long-distance journey in a motor car, and the first all-air ...