Issue 1

I t is widely thought that the ill-starred voyage of the Sea Venture inspired Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. The real Stephen Hopkins, aboard the Sea Venture when it sailed from Plymouth for Jamestown on June 2, 1609, might even have had something to do with the character “Stephano, a drunken Butler”, in this famous play.

With its eighteenth-century brick porch, its twelfth century blocked doorway and sixteenth century tower, the All Saints Church lies in a meadow on the River Anton in Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England