INDEXIndex SPONSORSSponsors LocalHISTORY History A TOto ZZ LocalLOCAL Business FIRMS UsefulKEY NUMBERS Numbers FreeADD Listing ENTRY www.north-baddesley.co.uk Useful Numbers Local History A to Z A to Kindly SupportedKindly by Free village guide and local directory Free A to Z Directory NORTH BADDESLEY NORTH NORTH BADDESLEY A TO Z INDEX INDEX Index Introduction Contents To navigate throughout the guide, you can click on the coloured tabs to take you to Welcome to this first edition your chosen section or simply scroll down page by page. The main directory headings of the North Baddesley Village are shown below and are all ‘live’ links. Guide and Directory. It has been compiled with the best of SPONSORS Airport Transfers Schools Sponsors intentions and hope that you find Baddesley Beadle Sports Injury Clinic it both interesting and useful. Bookkeeping Takeaway Food As North Baddesley has grown Builders Twinning Association in population, we may have lost Business Advice Veterinary Clinic some of the old village traditions Car Repairs Village Halls but hopefully not the village Chemists Websites spirit. This publication aims to Chimney Sweeps Window Cleaning highlight all of the local resources Churches Womens’ Institute HistoryLocal that are available to both Clubs & Societies HISTORY residents and visitors. Community Fund Community Life Centre Please can we encourage you Computer & IT Services to use local businesses and organisations where possible Co-Op Shops and to support the many worthy Curtain Makers causes that exist in the village. Dancing Schools Dentists DIY Shops A TO Z Finally, it is worth pointing A to Z out that the Baddesley Beadle Doctors continues to do a fantastic Electricians job of communicating village Hairdressers information and that this guide Library is intended to compliment rather Local Authority than conflict with the good work Nurseries that it does. 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The Directors are all skilled craftsmen and live in have built a Baddesley as do our workforce. We good reputation for a quality finish and gain most work by recommendation. Allen Build and Development Ltd can undertake all aspects of building works from new builds and major renovation works to extensions and general maintenance work. NORTH BADDESLEY A TO Z LOCAL HISTORY INDEX Index THE HISTORY OF NORTH BADDESLEY A fascinating insight into how the village evolved - (thanks to Wikipedia) time. However, the then Lord of the SPONSORS Manor, Samuel Dunch was a strong Sponsors parliamentarian. He was later related to the Cromwell family through the marriage of his son John in 1650 to Ann Major of Hursley Park, whose sister Dorothy was married to Richard Cromwell. In 1767 the manor was bought by HistoryLocal Thomas Dummer of Cranbury Park, HISTORY Otterbourne, from whom it devolved to the Chamberlayne family. The Joyce family bought the Manor house from the Chamberlaynes in 1981 and have lived there ever since. Baddesley gradually expanded down Nutburn Road and in 1876 the first A TO Z The Domesday Book of 1086 headquarters from Godsfield near buildings south of the crossroads A to Z shows North Baddesley or New Alresford to North Baddesley. were erected. The school opened to Badeslei as it was then called serve both Baddesley and Chilworth, (Ley meaning a wood, and Baed The Knights Hospitaller were a with Mr Dibble the headmaster living in the adjoining school house. or Baeddi being a proper name, medieval order dedicated to the care and protection of pilgrims, i.e. Baeddi’s Wood) as a small and tending the sick and infirm, The modern village (south of Botley hamlet with a church, four farms, including the Crusaders in their Road), was built on open farmland Business Local LOCAL FIRMS LOCAL seven small holdings and a wood quest to return the Holy Land to and common-land belonging sufficient for ten hogs valued at the Christian world. A Europe-wide formerly to the Willis Fleming family 60 shillings (£3). order, they became extremely large of North Stoneham Park, who were and wealthy landowners thanks major local landowners.[2] This is The most notable event in North to the patronage of rich and noble reflected in the names of local roads, Baddesley’s past was the arrival in families. Willis Avenue and Fleming Avenue. the 12th Century of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, later known The Knights Hospitaller were in The arrival of the 20th century as the Knights Hospitaller, and their was to change Baddesley forever, Useful Numbers Baddesley for about 400 years until KEY NUMBERS acquisition of the overlordship rights 1541. Following the Dissolution propelling it from a small hamlet in the late 14th century. However, of the Monasteries they were at with a population of 393 in 1901 long before this, half the manor odds with Henry VIII, as they still to that of the largest village in the had already been transferred to the recognised the supremacy of Rome Test Valley. In 2001, 100 years later, Knights as early as 1304, when the and were themselves suppressed. it had a population in excess of little church of All Saints was re- Their possessions were made forfeit 10,000, akin to that of a small town, dedicated to St John the Baptist, the to the crown. consisting predominantly of 1960s patron Saint of Hospitallers. / 70s style small housing. The most After the departure of the recent development is a new estate Free Listing Free The Church was almost opposite Hospitallers the Manor changed off Rownhams Road which was ADD ENTRY the Hospitallers preceptory, on the hands several times.