Sir Robert Hunter's Dramatic Walks - ISBN 978-1-873855-79-9

'Sir Robert Hunter's Dramatic Walks'
John Owen Smith

A short history of the acquisition of Hindhead Common by The National Trust
— plus —
Details of Dramatic Walks over Hindhead Common
and around Waggoners Wells

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Front Cover: The Cross on Gibbet Hill in morning sunlight, October 2010
Back Cover: Waggoners Wells and scenes from the walks

Paperback - 88 pages, plus illustrations and maps of the walks
John Owen Smith; ISBN: 978-1-873855-79-9; December 2023

Associated titles: Heatherley by Flora Thompson; Grayshott by JH Smith; A Balance of Trust by John Owen Smith; Shottermill by Greta A Turner

Publisher's Note . Table of Contents . Scenes from the Dramatic Walks . About the Author

Publisher's Note

Replaces The Sir Robert Hunter Trail, Hindhead Common, Dramatised Walk — ISBN 1-873855-13-3 — plus additional text
and replaces Hindhead is Safe — ISBN 978-1-873855-61-4

Table of contents

Introduction: How the National Trust obtained Hindhead Common
Biographies of people mentioned in the book
Calendar of Events
Dramatic Walks over Hindhead Common and around Waggoners Wells— maps, history and scripts

About the Author

John Owen Smith was born in 1942 and trained as a Chemical Engineer at London University, but spent most of his working life designing commercial Information Systems for the paper-making industry. Following redundancy, he 'fell' into researching and recording the local history of east Hampshire, where he now lives. His output of historical community plays, lectures, articles and books includes:—

Walks Around Headley: twelve circular walks in and around Headley parish
One Monday in November, the story of the Selborne and Headley Workhouse Riots of 1830
All Tanked Up, the story of the benign 'invasion' of a Hampshire village by Canadian tank regiments during the Second World War
A Balance of Trust, in which we meet the founder of The National Trust, and cover 50 years of history in and around Haslemere and Hindhead, Surrey, from the arrival of the railway to the arrival of the motor car
Headley's Past in Pictures, a tour of the parish in old photographs
On the Trail of Flora Thompson, in which the author turns detective to discover the true identity of the people and places Flora Thompson encountered while she lived in east Hampshire
Flora's Heatherley - a dramatisation of Flora Thompson's time in Grayshott, Hampshire, 1898–1900
Flora's Peverel - a dramatisation of Flora Thompson's time in Liphook, Hampshire, 1916–1928

— and other titles

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