Selborne

St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed church that dates back to the late 12th century. There is a primary school, and one public house the "Selborne Arms". A bus service that runs through the village links it to Alton and Petersfield. At the back of the village, behind the Selborne Arms and Gilbert White's Field Studies Centre, there is the Zig-Zag Path, which was cut into the hillside in the 1760s by Gilbert White and his brother John, to provide easier access to the Hanger and Selborne Common on the summit of Selborne Hill. A complete history of Selborne, from its geology through its establishment as a settlement in the Dark Ages to the present day, including a study of local…