Country Homes & Interiors

Let’s move to Alresford

ute as a cupcake, with its colourwashed Georgian frontages all greens and pinks and baby blues, Alresford in Hampshire – pronounced ‘Allsford’ – is not short on charms. Originally divided into new and old Alresford in the medieval era, when a weir and large fishpond were created from the River Alre between the two locations, the newer town grew prosperous and claimed the name. The high street is broad and straight (a touch strait-laced even

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