IN a rapidly-changing world there are some things that stay constant and the Tudor cottages in Selborne are a notable example.

At least 400 years old, they may have stood while Henry VIII broke with Rome to create the Church of England and while Elizabeth I saw off the Spanish Armada; and they certainly existed while the country was ravaged by Civil War in the mid-1600s, was building its Empire in the 1800s and was fighting two world wars in the 1900s.

Lorna Wallos looks at what life may have been like for the folk who lived in and around these houses in Tudor Selborne.

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