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The Heritage Trail leads you on the lanes Cuckoo Meadow is our recreation ground, St Michael’s Church was rebuilt in the 1860s around the conservation area of North given to North Waltham when William Rathbone and features all elements of the Gothic transition. Waltham. Starting from the Jubilee Display sold up his estate in 1953. All the facilities – The northern arcade (1200) survived the church’s Board in the Village Trust car park, it’s about sports field, pavilion, play area and tennis courts mid 19c collapse, and the windows show the a mile and takes 1-2 hours to complete. – have been created over these 50 years, so this transition from lancet through decorated to It commemorates 50 years of village effort is a memorial to their efforts. perpendicular styple. A splendid 14c piscina is to convert Cuckoo Meadow, the field matched by a 15c font, often used in this reviving generously given to the village by William village. Rathbone Senior in September 1953, into our recreation centre. The sports field, children’s play area, tennis courts and pavilion have all been developed by villagers, with help from Hampshire County Council and Basingstoke and Deane Borough Corough Council. The Trail was designed by children from North Waltham CP School, North Waltham School 1905 led by local archivist and teacher, Richard Tanner, and published by Hampshire County The old yew trees are all we have left of the Council through grants from Awards for All manor that stood here, its farm buildings replaced and Local Heritage Initiative. by the school in 1873. This early Board School, established by the Blackleys, a far-sighted rector and his German wife, was an all-age school for 80 years. Now a primary school 150 strong, it St Michael’s Church serves the neighbouring villages too in its modern classrooms behind the Decorated Gothic Revival hall with the attached headteacher’s house converted to offices.

St Michael’s Church The whole school 1894 The church choir 1906

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St Michael’s Church The whole school 1894 The church choir 1906 St Michael’s Close (1970s) stands on glebe Coldharbour was built in the 1930s to rehouse Maidenthorne Lane continues onto the A30, land, the pre-Victorian farm’s foundations lying labourers from their condemned cottages. Those the Roman road to Exeter, where a small under Nos 1&3. The rectory, now Boundary that survived this mid 20c attack have been Romano-British town has been located near House, moved uphill to house the rector in a restored, and range from the bijou – 1 Yew Tree the Wheatsheaf Hotel. But we’re returning to style to match the other two wealthy landowners Cottages was once a pair, each housing a family Chapel Street, where the 1822 brick-and-flint of North Waltham in 1841. – through the modest two-bay 16c Camellia Hook and Hatchet stands on the corner. Cottage to the grand Walnut Cottage. This Once a village alehouse, its brewery lay further 17c lobby house demonstrates the change from along on the Chapel site. One of the village’s communal living in hall houses to the privacy 3 public wells stands here, opposite Chalk made possible by chimneys. Both floors are Cottage, a cob house thatched with long- wonderfully timbered, the brick extension added straw. New houses line the lane where rows in the 18c. of poor thatched terraces stood, housing labourer supporters of the Chapel, erected in 1864 but now closed. The minister’s house behind survived, together with Holly and Mary Lane Cottages, higher and drier perhaps, and the Old School House beyond the top entrance to Cuckoo Meadow.

Blake Cottage Around the Green can be seen the houses of villagers from medieval times. The humbler Thatchings looks up to the 1750s brick-and- flint Grayshott set in its attractive garden, flanked by little Dove Cottage and much older Blake Yew Tree Cottages Cottage. Older still than its 1695 date, which Opposite is Yew Tree House, surely older than tells us when the chimney was inserted and the its 1854 date, and next door, Rose Cottage, fancy brickwork added, this is a three-bay timber- North Waltham’s oldest. A rare cruck-built, two- framed farmhouse from the early 17c. bay hall house, this must have been a fine yeoman’s It faced a forge for a hundred years until tractors house to have survived from 1460, unlike the Chapel Street 1905 and trucks replaced horses, and the bus shelter hovels of ordinary villagers in medieval times. was built to commemorate Queen Elizabeth’s As it’s hard to imagine large families living in coronation in 1953. Mid 19c terraced cottages tiny cottages, so it’s hard to see how 70 children look across the Pond to the picturesque Old piled into this unlit barn in the 1830s. Moved Post House, derelict in 1839 but repaired to from the rectory barn, the school on Corndell serve as the village shop for most of last century. lasted 40 years until the new one was opened in 1873. Returning there, past Church Farm, enlarged around its Regency style centre, gives views across the valley draining down through Steventon, Deane and Ashe to the source of the River Test. Jane Austen’s Walk leads west across this valley and up through the trees on the horizon to Steventon Church, where Jane’s Rose Cottage father was rector, a walk she would have used There’s the centre bay of another 16c farmhouse regularly to collect the family’s mail from the further on – Up Street – which was superseded Wheatsheaf. Cows in the Pond with the old barn behind 1929 by the brick-and-flint one higher up, itself The Spar shop fulfils this role now, occuping downgraded to a barn when replaced after 1840 the site of an old barn burnt down 40 years ago. with a brick mansion – North Waltham Farm Cows used to wander out to drink from the – now sadly abandoned in the trees. Pond, more ephemeral then before road drainage and the plastic liner kept it full, the water table being 10 metres down. A second barn stood in the grounds of Batchelors, our most complete medieval farmhouse.

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Welcome to North NORTH WALTHAM Waltham Farm Jubilee Heritage Trail The Heritage Trail leads you on a circuit around the conservation area of North Waltham. Starting from the Jubilee Display Board in the Village Trust car park, it’s about a mile and takes 1-2 hours to complete. It commemorates 50 years of village effort to convert Cuckoo Meadow, the field generously given to the village by William Rathbone Senior in September 1953, into

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