Cholderton, or more properly West Cholderton, is a village and

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in the Bourne Valley of

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, England. The village is about east of the town of

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. It is on the A338, about south of the

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trunk road and northeast of

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East Cholderton East Cholderton is a hamlet in the civil parish of Amport in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Andover which lies approximately 4.5 miles (6.7 km) east from the village, just off the A303 road. Notable ...

is part of

Amport Amport is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England, a few miles west of Andover. It incorporates the small hamlet of East Cholderton and has a population of about 1,200. There is a village green is surrou ...

parish, over the county border in

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. Local attractions include Cholderton Rare Breeds Farm, a

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approved farm park.

Notable people

Henry Charles Stephens Henry Charles "Inky" Stephens (2 February 1841 – July 1918) was an English businessman and Conservative Party Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper, Sunday, 3 July 1887 "Election Intelligence" politician. He sat in the House of Commons from 1887 to 1900 as ...

, a businessman from

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in north London and Member of Parliament, owned an estate in Cholderton and in 1904 by Act of Parliament set up the

Cholderton and District Water Company Cholderton and District Water Company Limited is a private water supplier, serving an area on the border of Hampshire and Wiltshire in the south of England. Until 1 May 2018 it was by far the smallest licensed water company in England and Wales, ...

which serves a small area of Hampshire and Wiltshire. His descendants still live in the village.

Notable buildings

Cholderton House (built 1690) and the Manor House (circa 1710) are

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. It was built "probably for Jonathan Hill, merchant, of Salisbury, altered C18 and extended in C19" according to the listing. The current structure is a 21st-century building that replaced the 17th-century house extensively damaged in a 2012 fire. In 2021, the building was described as having a "restored, late-17th-century William-and-Mary façade" by ''Country Life'' magazine and the property featured many equestrian facilities. The Manor House is described in its listing as "Farm house, now house. c1710 ... with service extension to left added 1732, and wing on right, set back and extending to rear, built c1931". By 2019, a news item about the house stated that it had been extensively restored, and the property included a swimming "pool, and a paddock, as well as stables, and a tennis court". The report stated that the current building includes a 20th-century addition, presumably from 1931.

Parish Church of St Nicholas

In the 1840s two churches stood on this site, side by side. The smaller being the old Saxon church deemed in need of replacement by the then Rector, Reverend

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and his wife Harriet, the sister of

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. Mozley laid the foundation stone for the larger building in 1841 and the new church was completed in 1850. Mozley directed the project, the architect was

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and the builder, John Crook of West Dean. The new church cost over £6000, of which Mozley contributed over £5000. In contrast, the demolition of the old church cost £11. In 1958 the church was designated as Grade II* listed. The parish is now part of the Bourne Valley grouping. Thomas Mozley was a supporter of the High Church

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and in 1841 succeeded Newman as editor of its periodical, the ''

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''. Other notable rectors include William Noyes (from 1601), James Fraser (1847-1860; later

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) and Frank McGowan (to 1951; became

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References

External links

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Cholderton Rare Breeds Farm

The Cholderton Estate
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