The modern parish lies immediately south of Cheriton and is on a sweep of high ground which gives fine views of the surrounding countryside, it is mainly agricultural and comprises of about fifty houses

The earlier church building fell into decay and then finally became a ruin and the modern church of St James took its place.

The only inn is the Fox and Hounds which is situated about a mile to the south of the village and it is said to have its own well which is said to have a foot in depth for every day of the year! Water is drawn by means of a treadmill worked not by a donkey but by manpower and is one of the last of its kind in the country.

The villages main claim to fame is a horde of 6,000 coins that date back to William the Conqueror and William Rufus which were found by boys playing near the village pond in 1833, the pond has now disappeared. The coins though were in mint condition when found and were thought to have been buried on purpose, some are now in the British Museum and others in the Museum at New Alresford. Most of the coins found belong to the PAXS type of William I or William II minted in the late 1080s at sixty-five different mints in England and the part of Wales which were under English control. Many of these mints are mentioned in the Domesday Book survey of 1086 which shows some of them provided profits for churchmen (sources: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

The ridge the village lies on is called Millbarrows Ridge and is situated on the north side of the Hampshire  Downs. There are a number of long barrows that date back to prehistoric times and are the only evidence of an occupation of earlier times.

Thought the village got its parish status in 1879 the charters that date from AD909 refer to its boundaries were laying with the Saxon manor of Tichborne and were recorded in the Domesday Book.

The census of 1987 records there were around 100 people living in the parish and Church Cottages, which were once three but now only two date back to the 16th century and in the beginning of the 1800s the centre room was used as a village school. The 2001 census shows an increase in population to 103 inhabitants!!

The only parts of the earlier Saxon church remaining are stone heads in the churchyard at Cheriton. The new church was constructed by H. Mulcock in 1833, he ran his own brick making business at Shorley Farm in Cheriton.

Beauworth school, (right),was  built in the 1840s. But by 1907 it was found it could not cope with had to be was built. A site was selected oopposite the Fox and Hounds public house. The old school was then turned into the  village hall. Gradually the number of pupils declined until the new school, in turn, was closed in the late 1960s and is now a private house. The village pub, The Fox and Hounds has recently had an extension added to serve as a restaurant and has been renamed Milburys which comes from Millbarrow. The building is tile clad and built in the 18th century, though there are additions from the 19th century. Around the beginning of the 20th century the landlord was also the local carpenter and undertaker so not only did he build the caskets and buried them but probably hosted the wake as well! As well as the finding of the coins Roman tiles were also discovered in 1957 in some undergrowth and other building materials from the same period were also discovered which late led to where a Roman villa once covered about 2½ acres. One of the lady's of the villages a Miss Watts decided that she would build up a pottery business in the village and then discovered that the local clay was not good enough though she did bake some blue and yellow ware that was marked with the Greek pi(p)

IMAGES OF BEAUWORTH

The Church of St James (erected in 1839)
Cottage below the church		View of the church from a nearby cottage
Church cottages next to the school, the oldest building in the village		More Beauworth cottages
The gallery in St James		The entrance to the clock mechanism
The beautiful stained glass window		An unusual object in the church
The interior of the church is plain and simple