Dippenhall is a rural hamlet in the civil parish of Crondall in the Waverley district of

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Farnham Farnham ( /ˈfɑːnəm/) is a market town and civil parish in Surrey, England, around southwest of London. It is in the Borough of Waverley, close to the county border with Hampshire. The town is on the north branch of the River Wey, a trib ...

, which lies approximately east from the village.

History

The manor of Dippenhall was mostly included in the Crondall Hundred See also http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56733 Crondall Hundred and was recognised as a 'tything' owned by Winchester Cathedral until a period of release in the Middle Ages. In the 14th century Dippenhall (Dupenhale, Dupehale, Dippenhaie, Depenhale, 14th century; Dipnel, seen once in the 18th century in a land tax/ecclesiastical record) appears as a sub-manor dependent on the manor of Crondall - it however followed the same descent as the manor of Badley having parted with Winchester Cathedral until the death of John de Westcote in 1336, when it was assigned to his sister Margery, the wife of John de Fulquardeby. In 1369 Thomas atte More granted back to William Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, the 'manor of Dippenhall, which he had by grant from Margery de Fulquardeby. At the Dissolution, Dippenhall, with the other possessions of the Prior and convent of St. Swithun, was granted to the Dean and chapter of Winchester; and from this time it is usually described in leases and other records as the farm of Dippenhall until Page wrote in 1912. Its 1831 population was 321, when it was described as being in Hampshire.

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occurred in 1848 — this was the privatisation of the common land. The architect Harold Falkner built Burles Lodge on the edge of the village in the 1930s. The Nobel Prize laureate in Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 2012 Sir John Gurdon was born in Dippenhall in 1933. In 1982 the contents of Dippenhall Grange were sold at Sotheby's and a comprehensive guide to these was published.

Local government

Dippenhall lies within the civil parish of Crondall, which has very limited local government functions. At Waverley Borough Council, the ward of which Dippenhall is a component is Farnham Castle, served by two councillors.Find my councillor
Waverley The County Councillor represents "Farnham North".

Transport

The hamlet is centred north of the A31 road between Farnham and Alton and does not pass south of it.

References

{{authority control Villages in Surrey Borough of Waverley