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|os_grid_reference= SU5730|label_position= bottom|population= 168United Kingdom Census 2001>2001 Census) 167 (2011 Census)HTTP://WWW.NEIGHBOURHOOD.STATISTICS.GOV.UK/DISSEMINATION/LEADKEYFIGURES.DO?A=7&B=11129687&C=TICHBORNE&D=16&E=62&G=6432067&I=1001X1003X1032X1004&M=0&R=1&S=1485010476247&ENC=1>TITLE=CIVIL PARISH POPULATION 2011PUBLISHER=OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS, Neighbourhood Statistics, |civil_parish= Tichborne|shire_district= City of Winchester|shire_county= Hampshire|region= South East England|country= EnglandNew Alresford>Alresford|postcode_area= SO|postcode_district= SO24|dial_code= 01962Winchester (constituency)>Winchester|website = }}Tichborne is a village and civil parish {{convert|4|mi}} east of Winchester in Hampshire, England.

History

In archaeology in the south of the parish within the South Downs National Park is a bell barrow, bowl barrow and regular aggregate field system immediately east of Ganderdown Farm,{{NHLE|num=1019121|accessdate=5 June 2012}} Scheduled Monument. a Scheduled Ancient Monument indicating Bronze Age inhabitation.

Manor

In AD 909 Edward the Elder granted the manor of Tichborne to Denewulf, Bishop of Winchester.{{sfn|Page|1908|p=336–338}} However, Tichborne is not recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086.The Roman Catholic Tichborne family has held the manor since the 12th century. Tichborne House was built shortly after 1803{{sfn|Pevsner|Lloyd|1967|p=622}} while a longstanding baronetcy (indicating the use of ‘Sir’) was held by the family. There was a notorious 19th-century legal case of the Tichborne Claimant, in which an English imposter, Arthur Orton, then living in Australia, claimed to be missing Tichborne family member Sir Roger Tichborne.

Other buildings

Almost all of the other buildings are clustered near each other and are listed buildings.{{NHLE|num=1095933|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1095934|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1095935|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1095937|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1095938|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1095939|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1095941|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1095942|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1178396|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1178479|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1178561|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1178576|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1302365|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1302375|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1302398|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1302440|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1350430|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1350431|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1350432|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1350433|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1350468|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{NHLE|num=1392714|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} They include an Old Rectory{{NHLE|num=1095936|desc=The Old Rectory|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} which may indicate chancel repair liability, the Chapel of St Margaret.{{NHLE|num=1095940|desc=Chapel of St Margaret|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} and Tichborne Park House.{{NHLE|num=1302395|desc=Tichborne Park House|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} Near Cheriton is the only Grade II* listed building, Sevington Farmhouse.{{NHLE|num=1178670|desc=Sevington Farmhouse|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} {{convert|1|mi}} east of Alresford are a northern small street of cottages, Lady Croft Cottages and Seward’s Bridge over the River Itchen and Watercress Line railway.

Parish church

The Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew has an 11th-century Saxo-Norman chancel that combines characteristically Saxon double-splayed windows with Norman flat buttresses{{sfn|Pevsner|Lloyd|1967|p=621}} and has reached Grade I listed status.{{NHLE|num=1178485|desc=St Andrew’s Church|fewer-links=yes|accessdate=5 June 2012}} The nave and two-bay arcades are Early English Gothic.{{sfn|Pevsner|Lloyd|1967|p=621}} The north aisle is now railed off to form the Tichborne Chapel, with monuments to members of the manorial family{{sfn|Pevsner|Lloyd|1967|p=621}} Inside the chapel is a tomb with full-sized horizontal images of Sir Benjamin Tichborne (d.1621) and his wife Amphillis.(File:Tichborne church grave.jpg|thumb|left|Tichborne church grave of Amphillis and Sir Benjamin Tichborne)It is rare in being dedicated as a Roman Catholic chapel within a pre-Reformation Anglican Parish Church.’The Tichborne Family Chapel’, Hampshire History www.hampshire_history.com. The west tower was added in 1703 and is built of blue and red brick.{{sfn|Pevsner|Lloyd|1967|p=621}} It has a ring of six bells cast between 1737 and 1887.{{sfn|Page|1908|p=336–338}}

Amenities

Tichborne holds a traditional charitable festival called the Tichborne Dole.Oh main village street, on the north side of the village is the Tichborne Arms pub(File:Tichborne Arms.jpg|thumb|Tichborne Arms)Alresford Golf Course,WEB,www.alresfordgolf.co.uk/, Alresford Golf Club - Glorious Hampshire Chalk Downland Course, Alresford Golf Club, founded 1890, covers much of the north-east, with greens highly rated on golfing websites.WEB,www.golfeurope.com/clubs/alresford/, Alresford Golf Club, GolfEurope.com, Nearby attractions include the National Trust garden at Hinton Ampner.In September is the large agricultural and funfair Alresford Show at Tichborne Park.

References

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Sources

• BOOK, Page, W.H., William Henry Page, Victoria County History, A History of the County of Hampshire, Volume 3, 1908, 336–338,
• BOOK, Pevsner, Nikolaus, Nikolaus Pevsner, Lloyd, David, Pevsner Architectural GuidesBuildings of England, The Buildings of England, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, 1967, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 621–622,

External links

{{Geographic location|title = Nearest Settlements|Centre = Tichborne|North = New Alresford|Northeast = New AlresfordBishops Sutton|East = RopleyCheriton, Hampshire>Cheriton|South = Beauworth |Southwest = Owslebury|West = ChilcombItchen Stoke and Ovington|Northwest = Itchen Stoke and Ovington}}{{Winchester}}{{Winchester wards and parishes}}{{authority control}}