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This is the Test Valley Borough's Northern most
parish, situated nine and a half miles from Andover. Its small
population has fallen over the last seventy years. It is
in the Northern division of the county, Pastrow hundred,
Andover union, petty sessional division and county court district, and in the diocese and archdeaconry of Winchester,
rural deanery of Andover north-western division.
The church of St. Peter. was rebuilt in 1871, and is built on the site of an earlier church and contains a Norman doorway, window and font from the old church, the north wall of the nave is original Norman work. Linkenholt is a 2000 acre estate owned by the Herbert and Peter Blagrave Charitable Trust set in North West Hampshire where the Hampshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire borders meet. The estate comprises numerous different enterprises: farming, forestry, game keeping and campsite.
The Old School was built in 1881, using materials from the old church. It is a flint and brick structure with woodwork in the same pattern as the church woodwork, with Shepherd's Crowns over the window arch. Consists of one room and a porch. Used as a school until 1938..
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