Cheriton, Hampshire

Village and civil parish in Winchester, Hampshire, England

Human settlement in England

Cheriton

District

City of Winchester

Shire county

Hampshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townALRESFORDPostcode districtSO24Dialling code01962Police Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire Hampshire and Isle of Wight Ambulance South Central UK Parliament

Meon Valley

List of places: UK; England; Hampshire

51°03′07″N 1°10′08″W / 51.051903°N 1.168855°W / 51.051903; -1.168855

Cheriton is a village and civil parish near Alresford in Hampshire, England.

The settlement is close to the site of the 1644 Battle of Cheriton, fought during the First English Civil War.

Facilities and Services

Cheriton has two pubs, and a local shop that contains a sub-post office. The Flower Pots Inn has its own microbrewery,^[3] and has won numerous awards for brewing over the past twenty years as attested to by the certificates adorning its walls. The community also enjoys the village hall, tennis courts and cricket pitches which offer a quintessentially English country scene.^[4]

The Church of England parish church dates from the 13th century and is dedicated to St Michael and All Angels. The chancel was extended in the 15th century and the tower, porch and aisle walls were rebuilt following a fire in 1744. It is a Grade I listed building.^[5]

About 1 mile (1.6 km) to the east of the village is a monument to the Battle of Cheriton which was fought on 29 March 1644 and resulted in the defeat of the Royalist army.^[6]

References

^ "Parish Headcounts, Area: Cheriton CP". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 2001. Archived from the original on 12 June 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2008. The population was similar in 1871 at 642 (William White (1878) History, Gazetter and Directory of the County of Hampshire).
^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 8 December 2016.
^ Good Beer Guide 2019. CAMRA Books. 2018. p. 562. ISBN 978-1852493547.
^ The Rough Guide to Dorset, Hampshire & the Isle of Wight. Rough Guides. 2017. p. 284. ISBN 978-0241253939.
^ Historic England. "CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL (1303010)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
^ Foard, G; Partida, T (May 2005). "Battle of Cheriton". www.battlefieldstrust.com. The Battlefields Trust. Retrieved 1 May 2020.

External links

Cheriton Cricket Club

Media related to Cheriton, Hampshire at Wikimedia Commons

Towns, villages and hamlets in the City of Winchester District of Hampshire, England

v t e Electoral wards and parishes in the City of Winchester District, Hampshire, England (since 2016 boundary changes)
	Wonston and Micheldever	Crawley Littleton and Harestock Micheldever South Wonston Sparsholt Wonston
	The Worthys	Headbourne Worthy Kings Worthy
	Alresford and Itchen	Bighton Itchen Stoke and Ovington Bishops Sutton Itchen Valley New Alresford Northington Old Alresford
	Winchester	Winchester unparished city area has five wards: St Barnabas, St Bartholomew, St Luke, St Michael, St Paul
	Badger Farm and Oliver's Battery	Badger Farm Compton and Shawford Hursley Olivers Battery Otterbourne
	Colden Common and Twyford	Colden Common Twyford
	Upper Meon Valley	Chilcomb Tichborne Cheriton Beauworth Kilmeston Bramdean and Hinton Ampner Owslebury Upham Exton Warnford West Meon Corhampton and Meonstoke
	Bishops Waltham	Durley Bishops Waltham
	Central Meon Valley	Swanmore Droxford Soberton Hambledon
	Whiteley and Shedfield	Curdridge Whiteley Shedfield
	Denmead	Denmead Newlands
	Southwick and Wickham	Wickham Boarhunt Southwick and Widley Newlands
(Wards ordered from north-west corner, across the map, and then progressively south and east)