Burkham

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Burkham
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Burkham
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Population 50 
OS grid reference SU6506343198
Civil parish
  • Bentworth
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Alton
Postcode district GU34
Dialling code 01420
Police Hampshire
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Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
Website http://bentworth.org.uk (parish)
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51°11′04″N1°04′14″W / 51.184320°N 1.07048°W / 51.184320; -1.07048 Coordinates: 51°11′04″N1°04′14″W / 51.184320°N 1.07048°W / 51.184320; -1.07048

Burkham is a hamlet in the large civil parish of Bentworth in Hampshire, England including a large country house, Burkham House. The nearest town is Alton, which lies about 4.5 miles (7.2 km) to the south-east. Its nearest railway station was formerly the Bentworth and Lasham railway station on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway, until its closure in 1932. [1] The nearest railway station is now 3.6 miles (5.8 km) east of the village, at Alton.

Civil parish territorial designation and lowest tier of local government in England, UK

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government, they are a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of ecclesiastical parishes which historically played a role in both civil and ecclesiastical administration; civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. The unit was devised and rolled out across England in the 1860s.

Bentworth village in East Hampshire, England

Bentworth is a village and large civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. The nearest town is Alton, which lies about 3 miles (5 km) east of the village. The parish covers an area of 3,763 acres (15.23 km2) and at its highest point is King's Hill, 716 feet (218 m) above sea level. According to the 2011 census, Bentworth had a population of 553 (2011).

Hampshire County of England

Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England. The county town, with city status, is Winchester, a frequent seat of the Royal Court before any fixed capital, in late Anglo-Saxon England. After the metropolitan counties and Greater London, Hampshire is the most populous ceremonial county in the United Kingdom. Its two largest settlements, Southampton and Portsmouth, are administered separately as unitary authorities and the rest of the area forms the administrative county, which is governed by Hampshire County Council.

Between Burkham and Bentworth is Home Farm, a Woodland Trust area of 339 acres (137 hectares) of mixed woodland, plantations and fields. The area was bought by the Woodland Trust in 1991.

Woodland Trust Woodland conservation charity in the UK

The Woodland Trust is the largest woodland conservation charity in the United Kingdom concerned with the creation, protection, and restoration of native woodland heritage. It has over 500,000 supporters and has planted over 41 million trees since 1972.

Burkham House

Burkham House lies in the centre of the hamlet, around one mile south to Bentworth. [2] The manor itself returns dated 1316, John Daleron held 'Brocham'. In 1590 Robert Hunt acquired the Bentworth Hall from Henry Lord Windsor, and this included the Burkham area. Later, Robert Magewick purchased Burkham for £160. [3] and George Magewick (1647–1736) was described as the owner of Burkham Farm in 1684. In 1748 James Magewick Battin, presumably a descendant, held the manor, and he is given as the owner in a 1778 Survey of Hampshire. [4]

Burkham House

Burkham House is a large country manor situated in the hamlet of Burkham in the parish of Bentworth, Hampshire. It is about 2.7 miles (4.3 km) south of the centre of Bentworth and about 5.4 miles (8.7 km) northwest of Alton, its nearest town

Robert Hunt, a vicar in the Church of England, was chaplain of the expedition that founded the first successful English colony in the New World, at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607.

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Lower Wield village in United Kingdom

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Wivelrod human settlement in United Kingdom

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Hall Place (Bentworth) grade II listed manor house in the United kingdom

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Hattingley village in the United Kingdom

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Tickley village in the United Kingdom

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Gaston Grange

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References

  1. ↑ Alton Light Railway closure [ dead link ]
  2. ↑ "Burkham House, Alton, England". Parks and Gardens UK. 12 August 2009. Archived from the original on 12 September 2012. Retrieved July 29, 2012.
  3. ↑ Feud. Aids, ii,. 1856. p. 314.
  4. ↑ Doubleday, Herbert Arthur; Page, William (1911). "A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4". accessed from British History Online. pp. 68–71.


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