Church Crookham is a large suburban village and
civil parish
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, contiguous with the town of
Fleet
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Vehicles
*Fishing fleet
*Naval fleet
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Places
Canada
* Fleet, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet
England
* The Fleet Lagoon, at Chesil Beach ...
, in northeast
Hampshire
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,
England
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. It is west-southwest of
London
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. Formerly a separate village, it figures as a southern
suburb of Fleet.
History
Crookham (in many of the earliest records, Crokeham) dates back at least as far as the
Domesday Book
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, though Church Crookham, including
Crookham Village
Crookham Village is located south-west of Fleet, in northeast Hampshire, England and lies within the Hart District.
History
Crookham (formerly Crokeham) dates back at least as far as the Domesday Book, although Crookham Village and Church Cro ...
(its west part in traditional terms), was a
hamlet
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until the first and only Anglican church was built in 1840.
This is dedicated to
Christ
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and for which Church Crookham is named and to reflect all of the local land's ecclesiastical freehold farms and manors until the
dissolution of the monasteries, as there is a Crookham in
Berkshire and in
Northumberland
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It is bordered by land ...
. In the 13th to 14th centuries, the
De Burgh family
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held notable lands in Crookham of (
under
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) the Prior and Convent of
Saint Swithun, Winchester.
['']Victoria County History
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: A History of Hampshire and Isle of Wight'', volume 4, 1903, Constable & Co Ltd, London, Miss A. M. McKilliam.(section compiler) at page 9 During this time, one of the family saw a confirmation (re-grant) and was bailiff of the priory, in 1257. One of his grandsons passed all the lands of his mother in the "hamlets" of "Crookham" and "Velmeads" to another such grandson.
[
The parent sprawling parish of ]Crondall
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(in Crondall Hundred) was mostly rural at this time, with the 1831 edition of Samuel Lewis's ''Topographical Dictionary of England'', which used the census returns to assess that Crookham had 623 inhabitants and not even mentioning the (at the time) much smaller Fleet. Other than Crondall tithing, this parish in 1800 consisted of four other tithings, Crookham (otherwise Church Crookham), Ewshot
Ewshot is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. It lies in the north east of the county, close to the Surrey border.
The name Ewshot comes from Old English and means ''corner or angle of land where yew trees grow''.
Ewshot consists ...
, Swanthorpe, and portions of Dippenhall (partly in Surrey, in Farnham Hundred).['']Victoria County History
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: A History of Hampshire and Isle of Wight'', volume 4, 1903, Constable & Co Ltd, London, Miss A. M. McKilliam.(section compiler) at pages 5 & 6 The soil is sandy here and in Ewshot, but is chalky in Swanthorpe and has some clay in other tithings.[
Crookham was made its own church parish in 1842; Fleet was (before in this parish) in 1863.][ The same zones gained ]civil parishes
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counterpart statuses in 1894.[ The ]canal
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has served as the traditional divide of the two since Fleet was separated into its own church parish.[ In the centre west of Church Crookham is the Anglican church that continues to serve both the suburb and the older ]Crookham Village
Crookham Village is located south-west of Fleet, in northeast Hampshire, England and lies within the Hart District.
History
Crookham (formerly Crokeham) dates back at least as far as the Domesday Book, although Crookham Village and Church Cro ...
to the west. The ecclesiastical parish is roughly a broad rectangle with the church at the true centre.
Forestry was significant in eastern Crookham with several 'old copse enclosures' and areas of 'woodland'.[ A few of the neediest poor were housed in almshouses, by request of Isabelle Cottrell of Bath.][
In 1903, the noted large homes and their owner-occupiers were:][
In 1903, the commercial crops were corn and ]root vegetables
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.[ Defunct hop farming is noted.][ This saw a revival ending in 1974 (see ]Crookham Village
Crookham Village is located south-west of Fleet, in northeast Hampshire, England and lies within the Hart District.
History
Crookham (formerly Crokeham) dates back at least as far as the Domesday Book, although Crookham Village and Church Cro ...
).
The Second World War
Church Crookham lies on GHQ Line
The GHQ Line (General Headquarters Line) was a defence line built in the United Kingdom during World War II to contain an expected German invasion.
The British Army had abandoned most of its equipment in France after the Dunkirk evacuation. It ...
– the most important of a number of fortified stop lines constructed as a part of British anti-invasion preparations of World War II – and was at one of the most heavily fortified sections of that line.
Notable large newer neighbourhoods
In Crookham (a term only used in historic studies and as a local shorthand) southwest of Church Crookham and south-east of Crookham Village is Zebon Copse, over two hundred homes built in the late 1980s. A much larger development followed in the early 2010s at Crookham Park, on the former Queen Elizabeth Barracks site.
Economy
Past notable employers and innovators
Vertu
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Concept
According to ''The Economist'', the concept was to market phones explicitly as fashi ...
mobile phones were made at its Crookham headquarters until the business folded in 2014. The head office of Ferranti Thomson Sonar Systems was on the Redfields Industrial Estate until 2004.
Tobacco plantation and growers association
Church Crookham hosted Britain
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* Great Britain, the largest island in the United King ...
's only commercially successful tobacco
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plantation, which produced among other brands "Blue Pryor" cigarettes
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and pipe tobacco
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. Whole-process growing and manufacturing ended in 1938.
Redfields hosted the British Pioneer Tobacco Growers Association (BPTGA) after World War Two
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. Tobacco was grown there, cured and a commercial brand 'Trowards Rayon D'or' was produced alongside the main purpose of supplying plants to members, curing and shredding their leaves then returning for their smoking. Charles Baggs served as the general manager, and Admiral Sir Clement Moody was among members. A BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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. The BPTGA closed after the death of owner Troward but Baggs supplied plants and cure the members' product some time after. The BPTGA employed twenty to thirty local staff.