| Lindford |
| Lindford is a village situated in the parish of
Headley and seven miles to the southeast of Alton, on the Bordon to
Headley road near the A325 that runs from Farnham to Longmoor, but years
ago it was just a tiny hamlet. Time and technology has changed all that
and it has grown so much that it can nearly be called a town. The Ecclesiastical parish of All Saints served both Lindford and Bordon until March 2002 – since then Bordon became a separate ecclesiastical parish In 1773 there were 64 people living in just twelve houses but at the dawn of the 20th century the development of neighbouring Longmoor and Bordon to army garrisons started what was to become a close association with Lindford. At the end of the Great War the village was stil a farming community but houses were beginning to appear along the High Road which is now Liphook Road, a public house and two general stores as well as a couple of other trades replaced the tiny shops that were really the front rooms of private houses. During the Second World War evacuees from places like London and other large towns and cities were sent to Lindford and they decided to stay and settle in this peaceful
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