Hay meadow in Cathedral Close (Image: Andrew Napier)
REMOVE the 21st century vehicles in the background and this image could have come from the Middle Ages.
It's the Cathedral Close between The Deanery and Pilgrims' School. The gardeners have cut the grass and left it to dry in lines in the early autumn sun, much as workmen would have done when the cathedral was a monastery that grew much of its own food.
The same has been done on the Outer Close on the north side of the cathedral close to the New Minster.
Belgarum would very much enjoy seeing the hay piled up into ricks, a common sight in the Hampshire countryside before mechanisation, square bales and hay wrapped in black plastic sheeting.
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