Preston Candover falls within the Parish of Preston Candover and Nutley and at the time that the Domesday Survey was being conducted there were six separate estates, with names on the records being Candover Scotland, Stevenbury or Horwoods, Botillers Candover, Purefoys and Moundsmere.

Moundsmere was held by the Priory of Southwick up until the Dissolution of the Monasteries and it formed a part of the dower of Anne of Cleves and Catherine Howard. And it was on Catherines death that Henvy VIII granted the Manor of Moundsmere to the college of St Mary in Winchester, where until 1544 it became a sick house for the scholars of the city who had contacted the plague. And it was 1909 that the property was sold by the college.

Preston Candover Manor is first found recorded when Edward III was on the throne and it was held by the Hoyville family, John de Hoyville in 1368, granted the manor to William de Wykeham the Bishop of Winchester.

The manor then went to Thomas Warener in the reign of Richard II and then to the Sandys family who kept it until the end of the 16th century when in 1636 it was bough by George Long who during the civil war lived in London and assisted the Parliament with money, and while he was there his house and land in Preston Candover was destroyed. The manor changed hands regularly during the following centuries but one own William Guidott built Preston Candover House.

The church has a tall spire that can be seen for miles around and is a new church, the remains of the old Norman one being behind the trees and is said to be one of the first churches built in the county.

St Mary the Virgin at Preston Candover// (The new church)

The interior of St Mary the Virgin		The village water pump
The old Norman Church		The village Pub