Holy Trinity
 Church at Penton Mewsey

The Pentons were first recorded in the Domesday Book though much earlier settlements have been discovered, which include both Neolithic and Roam.

The name Penton comes fro Penitone which was a farm rented at a penny, while Mewsey comes from the Meysey family who were related to the Earls of Gloucester and who were Lords of the Manor just after the Norman Conquest and it is though they came from Maisy which lies on the coast of Normandy.

Grafton shows that from the Norman Conquest the revenue of the manor was the property of the Abbey of Grestein which is near Honfleur. The manor was then passed to the De la Poles who became the Dukes of Suffolk.

In 1437 Duchess Alice found the "Charity of the Two Chaplains and Thirteen Poor Men of the House of God of Eweime" and it was her who donated to charity, the Manor of Rambridge whish is in the present parish.

Penton Mewsey is about four kilometres from Andover and was developed along Chalkcrotf Lane in the bottom of the valley but Grafton is a scattered settlement on the western slope.

Holy Trinity Church is from the middle of the 14th century and had a lot of restoration done in the 19th century.

One of the villages, a yeoman called Peter Noyes set sail in 1638,with John Bent another yeoman and their families for New England, Noyes returned in 1639 and set sail again with ten others to found Sudbury in Massachusetts.

IMAGES OF PENTON MEWSEY

The porch of Holy Trinity Church
The White Hart public house		Approaching Penton Mewsey with the White Hart on the right hand side of the road
Thatched cottages in the village