> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # 📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino:Broughton in Hampshire - URL: https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/field-notes-from-my-camper-van-camino-broughton-in-hampshire/ - Published: 2026-03-13T15:18:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-08-22T17:42:19.000Z - Description: I have an interiors photoshoot near Andover and am lodging nearby. I post out a link about my whereabouts on my LinkedIn profile and one of my connections tells me of a dovecote nearby at Broughton. - Author: Andy Marshall - Tags: field notes, broughton, hampshire, ways of seeing *A brief visit to Broughton in Hampshire* --- ****HOTSPOTS** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/Screenshot-2023-10-05-at-11.32.12.png) Courtesy of Google Maps ### **Broughton, Hampshire.** ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2506.jpeg) **I have an interiors photoshoot near Andover and am lodging nearby. I post out a link about my whereabouts on my** [**LinkedIn profile**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fotofacade/?ref=digest.andymarshall.co) **and one of my connections tells me of a dovecote nearby at Broughton.** On the day of the shoot I set off extra early so that I can visit the Dovecote but get hopelessly lost. One of the roads has been closed and my sat-nav can't seem to re-direct me. I spot a dog walker and pull over. "*You're heading to Broughton?*" she says, looking my camper van up and down. " *There's not much there, no shops or touristy things.*" she adds. "*I'm looking for the dovecote.*" "Oh that thing...it isn't open." Twenty minutes later, I arrive in Broughton and it's full of life, but not in the way that the dog walker thinks. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2504.jpeg) What I'm struck by at Broughton is the layering up of the ages via the diversity and juxtaposition of materials. Everything has been thrown into the melting pot which reveals a pattern of human occupation that thrives on mend and make do. ### The buildings of Broughton - pure scroll - no words. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2434.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2436.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2438.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2437-1.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2442.jpeg) Check out the lean on the door to the right! ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2441.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2488.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2503.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2493.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2492.jpeg) --- 💡 If you’re drawn to places where time gathers rather than passes – places of refuge, care, and continuity – I post out fresh observations like this every week. [Subscribe for free here](https://www.digest.andymarshall.co/) --- ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2491-1.jpeg) Header bond ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2495.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2498.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2499.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2496.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2497.jpeg) Flemish bond with headers in vitrified (glazed) brick ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2505.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2507.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2508.jpeg) The village might not have any shops, but it is alive! Full of telling - full of the pattern of human endeavour. I walk through the high street and glimpse the church tower - before I visit the church I walk into the churchyard and spot the dovecote. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2460.jpeg) It has a delightful conical roof covered in plain (Rosemary) hand made clay tiles, each one cut to size as they diminish to the cupola. Built in 1689 the brick coursing is of [Flemish bond](https://www.britannica.com/technology/Flemish-bond?ref=digest.andymarshall.co) \- stretcher then header, stretcher then header - a popular bond of the day. The eaves cornice has been finished in a dog-tooth pattern. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2462.jpeg) From the dovecote I spy the church. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2465.jpeg) ..and I've never seen such a ragged church in all of my days - and it's beautiful. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2466.jpeg) We should call it a building's 'overall patina': the way a building's aesthetics is impacted by the diversity of its pattern and materials. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2476.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2470.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2475.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2478.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2469.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2473.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2479.jpeg) And then I spy the tower door - and am spun into its web. From the macro to the micro - a universe in the particular. It's all so bloody beautiful. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2444.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2445.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2446.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2447.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2448.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2449-1.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2451.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2452.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2455.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2450-1.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2453.jpeg) ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2e/b6/2eb6d776-18dd-41f1-a2d1-b76fa2d605be/content/images/2023/10/IMG_2454.jpeg) And the dog walker told me there was nothing to see. --- **Walking and cycling around Broughton** [Roman Road – Buckholt House loop from Broughton | hike | KomootDetailed maps and GPS navigation for the hike: “Roman Road – Buckholt House loop from Broughton” 04:01 h 14.7 km![](https://www.komoot.com/icons/mask-icon.2a2678c51298b728ce57573a3ebea3f7.svg)komoot![](https://d2exd72xrrp1s7.cloudfront.net/www/000/1k5/1h/1hwmi98zhcodz8li8zs2h9liq3qwcilod-uhi31957907/0?width=768&height=576&crop=true)](https://www.komoot.com/smarttour/5647540?ref=wsd) [Smooth flat quiet country road – John O Gaunts Inn loop from East Tytherley | bike Tour | KomootDetailed maps and GPS navigation for the bike Tour: “Smooth flat quiet country road – John O Gaunts Inn loop from East Tytherley” 01:57 h 31.3 km![](https://www.komoot.com/icons/mask-icon.2a2678c51298b728ce57573a3ebea3f7.svg)komoot![](https://d2exd72xrrp1s7.cloudfront.net/www/000/1k5/6p/6pjlv0a8lx2zpikj6tx9pv7a3uw9wqvi-uhi38225663/0?width=768&height=576&crop=true)](https://www.komoot.com/smarttour/11369722?ref=wsd) --- Andy Marshall’s Genius Loci Digest Email address Join the weekly journey – it’s free ↗ Joining… Free. 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