SLAB Common in Bordon is believed to be one of the earliest sites of human activity in the area, with evidence that people came from land now covered by the North Sea around 7,500 years ago.

Bronze Age people were attracted to the area, or rather the nearby Downs, because, using only spades for farming, they found the sandy soil easier to work than the heavier clay and flint soil on the chalk.

The overworked sandy soil remains today in Whitehill and Bordon, which again finds itself on the cusp of permanent change.

For full story, see this week’s Bordon Herald.