Granted to the de la Bere family by the bishop, Kilmeston Plukenet descended to this family around 1230. Then the manor passed to the Woodlock family who retained it until the 14th century.

By the beginning of the 16th century it has been divided into two one part to the Skillings and the other to the Bengers. The former family sold there half to William Lacie in 1605, he already held the other Manor of Kilmeston (Kilmeston Gymming). The Bengers had the other part of Kilmeston Plunkenet up to the middle of the 1500s and it then passed into the White family by marriage, they held the Manor of Southwick near Portsmouth.

It was in the 13th century that Kilmeston Gymming was given to the family of that name but the manor passed to the provosts of St Elizabeth's Chapel in Winchester at a later date, and it stayed under that ownership until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Kilmeston was first mentioned in a grant of land by King Edgar in 961: the land was later given to St. Peter's Church at Winchester. The Domesday Book lists Kilmeston as belonging to the bishop but divided equally into two manors, one held by Edred and the other by Godwin. The manors were later known by the names of the families who held them.

Kilmeston Plunkenet was granted to the de la Bere family by the bishop, but it descended to the de Plunkenet family in about 1230. The manor later passed to the Woodlock family, who held it during the fourteenth century. By the early sixteenth century the manor had been split in two, one part being held by the Skilling family and the other by the Bengers. The Skillings sold their portion in 1605 to William Lacie, who already held the other Manor of Kilmeston known as Kilmeston Gymming. The Benger family held the other part of Kilmeston Plunkenet until the mid-sixteenth century when it passed by marriage into the White family, who held the Manor of Southwick near Portsmouth.

Kilmeston Gymming was granted to the Gymming family in the thirteenth century, but the manor later passed to the provosts of St. Elizabeth's Chapel, Winchester, with whom it remained until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. In 1544 the manor was granted to Thomas Wriothesley who conveyed it to Anthony Cope: the land was later passed to John Tichbourne and finally to the Lacie family, who held the estate for 160 years. The land was then merged with the other Manor of Kilmeston Plunkenet.

In 1772 the church of St Andrew was constructed on the foundations of a chapel that was annexed to Cheriton according to the Domesday Book and it is said that the chapel of of either Saxon or Norman origin.

The village did not changed much until mechanisation took over, and this brought a great change as the main work around here was agriculture and today not many of the villagers work on the land, The shop and post office closed about 40 years ago and is now a private house but there is still another shop and garage right on the edge of the village.

The village school closed in 1920, and it was Dame Mary Sadler who bequeathed £100 to help in the building of the school in 1701 and today the school is used as a village hall.

St Andrews Church
Kilmeston Manor
A memorial to Amy Caroline Walpole