http://blog.webtogs.co.uk/2009/04/09/hambledon-hill/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hambledon-hill The Outdoors. Online Sat, 21 Jan 2012 08:02:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.webtogs.co.uk/2009/04/09/hambledon-hill/comment-page-1/#comment-340 verity Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:04:17 +0000 http://blog.webtogs.co.uk/?p=500#comment-340 I was a peripatetic care worker during the 1980's and was living for three weeks in Child Okeford as a nurse companion. Not knowing anything of the area and without my own transport my meagre free time was limited to shopping and brousing the centre of the village. However the atmosphere caused by that great lurking ridge had me on tenterhooks. A neighbour asked if I would consider returning for regular periods in this post and I could only reply No way. My explanation was that it was creepy and I felt I could almost hear Roman soldiers marching in the distance. Obviously this neighbour thought I knew that ridge was something more than just a hill and refrained from comment but I wish I had known, then perhaps I could have accepted that it was just something which went with the territory. I was a peripatetic care worker during the 1980's and was living for three weeks in Child Okeford as a nurse companion. Not knowing anything of the area and without my own transport my meagre free time was limited to shopping and brousing the centre of the village. However the atmosphere caused by that great lurking ridge had me on tenterhooks. A neighbour asked if I would consider returning for regular periods in this post and I could only reply No way. My explanation was that it was creepy and I felt I could almost hear Roman soldiers marching in the distance. Obviously this neighbour thought I knew that ridge was something more than just a hill and refrained from comment but I wish I had known, then perhaps I could have accepted that it was just something which went with the territory.

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