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Road junction in the centre of Kitwood
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Kitwood
Location within Hampshire
OS grid reference SU6661633840
Civil parish
  • Four Marks
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Alton
Postcode district GU34
Dialling code 01420
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Hampshire
51°06′00″N1°03′00″W / 51.100000°N 1.05°W / 51.100000; -1.05

Kitwood is a hamlet in the parish of Four Marks, Hampshire, England. It is in the south east of the Parish and has been part of Four Marks since its creation in 1932. Prior to this, it was part of Ropley Parish.

Contents

Although the settlement was located at the junction of Kitwood road and Swelling, as is visible in older maps, the settlement now spreads all the way from Swelling hill pond to Kitwood farm near Hawthorn Road.

Map of Kitwood from 1870, showing the then newly built Kitwood Farm to the east Kitwood map 1870.png
Map of Kitwood from 1870, showing the then newly built Kitwood Farm to the east

Etymology

First Mentioned in AD 1403 as kyteswode [1] meaning the Kite('s) wood from Old English 'cýta' and 'wudu' . [2] The actual woodland that is referred to stood somewhere near to where Kitwood Plantation is nowadays.

History

The earliest signs of human activity in Kitwood are a number of mesolithic flint implements that have been found in the past few years. It is also suggested that Swelling Lane, leading west toward Ropley from the hamlet, is the remains of a Roman Road. Saxon origins are, as can be expected, vague. No finds or information relevant to this period are known.

Medieval

More is known about Kitwood in Medieval times with the first records appearing in the early 15th century. The hamlet has evidence of medieval settlement with medieval potsherds found around the area. Kitwood Lane had some significance in these times too. A court roll record from 1413 [3] mentions "kitteswodeweye" and during a hedgerow dating survey, commissioned for the Four Marks Village Design Statement, [4] the hedgerow on either side of Kitwood Lane was dated to "approximately 800 years old". This wealth of records suggests significant activity in the area since the 1400s.

Post Medieval

Long, parallel field boundaries running on a NE-SW alignment are visible north of Kitwood Farm. These are said to have been laid as a result of the enclosures act of which Ropley was the first parish to be enclosed by act of parliament in 1709. [5] The 1839 Ropley Tithe Map [6] preserves some surnames of these early 1700s post enclosure tenants in the field names such as Withers piece and Davis' piece.

Kitwood Farm

This Farm, not to be confused with the more modern 19th century farmhouse that sits to the east of the main hamlet, was an 18th century farmhouse that existed from around the early 1700s up to about 1908/9 where it dissapeared off of maps. The farmhouse stood roughly where Autumn Cottage on Kitwood Lane stands now.

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References

  1. https://maps.hants.gov.uk/historicenvironment/herResults.aspx?monuid=39220
  2. "Old English Dictionary: Find Old English Words | Old-Engli.sh".
  3. held in the records of Winchester College
  4. https://cdn.easthants.gov.uk/public/documents/27.%20Four%20Marks%20Village%20Design%20Statement.pdf page 27
  5. Heal, Chris, Ropley's Legacy, The Ridge Enclosures, 1709 to 1850: Chawton, Farringdon, Medstead, Newton Valence and Ropley and the birth of Four Marks (Chattaway and Spottiswood, Four Marks 2021) ISBN   978-1-9161944-3-4
  6. "Transcription of the 1839 Tithe Map Awards".