Author name: Colin Yeomans

West Street

West Street begins at the junction with High Street and runs westward becoming part of B2150 at the Green Man junction, continuing beyond the Village boundary and the junction with Fareham Road towards Denmead via Well Hill. Confusingly West St is bisected at the junction with Green Lane where the latter has right of way giving the impression when travelling west from the village centre that one is joining a different road. To reduce confusion we do talk about Upper West Street (being the easterly section) and Lower West Street the westerly section.

Church Lane looking southeast viewed from the school driveway. The entrance to the churchyard is to the right.

Church Lane

Church Lane branches right from the top of High St at a 90 degree junction; the cottages that range either side of the narrow lane present a village view that is archetypally English, aided by the houses lining the road, scrupulously maintained today by their owners. As the lane turns left there is the entrance to Folly House named for the prominently visible tower overlooking the village whose grounds in the Edwardian era hosted the Old Folly Tea Rooms. The lane leads on past the east gate to the churchyard and on to the Hambledon village school.

Upper West Street

West Street begins at the junction with High Street and runs westward becoming the B2150 at the Green Man junction, continuing beyond the Village boundary and the junction with Fareham Road towards Denmead via Well Hill. Confusingly, West St is bisected at the junction with Green Lane where the latter has right of way, giving the impression when travelling west from the village centre that one is joining a different road. To reduce confusion we do talk about Upper West Street (being the easterly section) and Lower West Street the westerly section.

Lower West Street

At the beginning of Lower West St, to the left on the south side is a pair of Edwardian mock tudor semi-detached homes, Downings and St Davids. In the 1930s the plot of land west of St Davids was still a vegetable garden but is now occupied by two generous sized semi-detached family homes built in the 1970s.

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