Photo of Hurstbourne Tarrant, a village in the North Wessex Downs, Hampshire, south east England.

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Hurstbourne Tarrant

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Hurstbourne Tarrant is a thatched village in the Bourne valley north of Andover. William Cobbett stayed here often and wrote about it in Rural Rides under the old local name ‘Uphusband’. Steep chalk downs rise on either side. Andover station is about 8km to the south.

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