Linkenholt is a village near
Andover
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in
Hampshire
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, England with about 40 inhabitants. It is in the
civil Parish
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of
Faccombe
Faccombe is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England. The village lies on the Hampshire- Berkshire border and is situated on the North Downs. Its nearest Hampshire town is Andover, approximately away although Newbury in Berkshire is cl ...
. The
Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...
of 1086 records it as ''Linchehou'', when it was part of the land of the Abbey of St Peter of Gloucester.
The village is in an
area of outstanding natural beauty
An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB; , AHNE) is an area of countryside in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value. Areas are designated in recognition of thei ...
. Linkenholt includes a estate that has an Edwardian manor house, 21 cottages and houses, of farmland, of woodland, a village shop and a blacksmith's forge. The
Church of England parish church
A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within each Church of England parish (the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative unit; since the 19th century sometimes ca ...
of
Saint Peter
Saint Peter; he, שמעון בר יונה, Šimʿōn bar Yōnāh; ar, سِمعَان بُطرُس, translit=Simʿa̅n Buṭrus; grc-gre, Πέτρος, Petros; cop, Ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲟⲥ, Petros; lat, Petrus; ar, شمعون الصفـا, Sham'un ...
is not part of the estate.
The history of the Manor of Linkenholt traces back beyond Domesday Book of 1086. From the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042–66) until after the Dissolution in the mid-1500s, the Manor of Linkenholt was granted by successive monarchs to the abbot and convent of St Peter, Gloucester.
In 1629, the estate was bought by Emanuel Badd for 2,000 pounds and was sold in 1680 to Amsterdam merchant Robert Styles for 12,000 pounds. The estate remained in the same family until the early 19th century. Roland Dudley bought it in the 1920s.
Herbert Blagrave
Herbert Henry Gratwicke Blagrave (3 March 1899 – 4 July 1981) was an English cricketer and racehorse trainer. He was a slow bowler who played for Gloucestershire.
Early life
Blagrave was born at Charlton Kings near Cheltenham, son of John Gra ...
bought the estate in 1964 and it passed to the trustees of the Herbert and Peter Blagrave Charitable Trust on his death in 1981. The trustees sold the estate for an estimated £25 million in May 2009 to Swedish businessman
Stefan Persson. All of the buildings in the village are rented to tenants.
Geography
Linkenholt has a
site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) just to the north west of the village, called
Combe Wood and Linkenholt Hanging
Combe Wood and Linkenholt Hanging is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest south of Hungerford in Berkshire. It is in the North Wessex Downs, which is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Most of this site is semi-natural woodlan ...
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External links
Villages in Hampshire
Test Valley
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