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Dateline 1875 Andwell is a small village, formerly extra parochial, but now a parish, in the Northern division of the county, hundred, union and county court district of Basingstoke, and consists of a mill and a farm, the property of Winchester College; it is 4 miles east from Basingstoke. There is no church here, but there are remains of what is supposed to have been a monastery. The soil is clay, sand and chalk. The population in 1871 was 23. At the beginning of the twelfth century Adam de Port was the Lord of Mapledurwell and founded the Priory of Andwell in the latter half of the reign of Henry I. There are said to be 18 Sarsen stones here at the Andwell Priory Farm, and adjacent to Andwell Mill House there is a lovely stretch of water when a mill wheel once stood. During the time of Edward III all alien priories in England were sequested by the monarch and this include Andwell whose allegiance was to France. It was in 1391 that the Manor of Andwell was bought by William Wykeham the then Bishop of Winchester and bestowed on the College of Winchester which had only recently been founded, and today it still remains in the Colleges possession. Parts of Up Nately continued to be included in the Manor of Mapledurwell long after Andwell Priory was founded but these lands were later transferred to Corpus Christi Oxford in 1535 along with the rest of the manor of Mapledurwell.. A Drovers Path originally ran from Priory Farm to Five Lanes End but now it has changed and goes from Burrough Close, Greywell Road to Hungry Lodge and is a public right of way. Little Tunnel Bridge and Canal Tunnel which is near to Burrough close runs beneath Andwell Drove, constructed of red brick it s part of the Basingstoke Canal which opened in 1794. It has an arched entrance with rusticated side bands and corbelled parapet. Reports from the Salisbury and Winchester
Journal of May 14th 1825 report
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