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{{Short description|Village and parish in Hampshire, England}}
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|region = South East England
|constituency_westminster= [[Aldershot (constituency)|Aldershot]]
|population = 1,
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|post_town = Farnham
|postcode_district = GU10
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|static_image_caption=A typical village house in Crondall
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'''Crondall''' ({{IPAc-en|k|r|ʌ|n|d|əl}}) is a village and large [[civil parish]] in the [[Hart District|Hart]] district, in the north east of [[Hampshire]] in England, in the Crondall [[Hundred (division)|Hundred]] surveyed in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086.<ref>{{cite web|title=Open Domesday: Crondall|url=https://opendomesday.org/place/SU7948/crondall/|access-date=25 September 2022}}</ref> The village is on the gentle slopes of the low western end of the [[North Downs]] range, and has the remains of a [[Roman villa]]. Despite the [[English Reformation]], [[Winchester Cathedral]] (or its Dean and Chapter) held the chief [[Manorialism|manor]]s representing much of its land from 975 until 1861. A large collection of Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian coins found in the parish has become known as the [[Crondall Hoard]]. In 2021 the parish had a population of 1724.
==Toponymy==
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The map of Hampshire in the 1722 edition of [[William Camden]]'s ''Britannia or Geographical Description of Britain and Ireland'' shows symbols for major habitation in [[Farnborough, Hampshire|Farnborough]], [[Cove, Hampshire|Cove]], [[Ewshot]], [[Aldershot]] and [[Church Crookham|Crookham]] in the Crundhal (Crondall) hundred, a strategic collection of lands with a meeting place at which the wealthy and powerful would convene as needs require, and which came to hold [[Hundred Court]]s, a level above the [[Manorial court]]s.<ref>[[Samuel Lewis (publisher)|Samuel Lewis']] ''A Topographical Dictionary of England'' of 1831 Ewshot and Crookham remained in the parish and hundred of Crondall</ref>
The Hundred of Crondall was divided into '[[Manorialism|Manors]]', Itchell, Ewshot, Crokeham/Crookham Well, Feldmead, Dippenhall, Farnborough and Aldershot. These Manors are all mentioned in the records of [[Winchester Cathedral]]. All the land within the Hundred was administered by a steward landowner at Crondall on behalf of "the monks of St Swithen" and later on behalf of
===Evolution of the estate===
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===Itchell Manor===
The Giffard/Gifford of Itchel(l) family acquired a
John Gifford died seised of the manor in 1563, leaving a son George, then aged 10 years. A third part of the manor passed to his widow who married William Hodges of [[Weston-sub-Edge railway station|Weston Sub Edge]]. In 1579, shortly after George Giffard came of age, [[Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton]], desiring to add it to his neighbouring estate of [[Dogmersfield]], purchased the estate.<ref name=p/> After 1628 the estate passed through several hands and in the 18th still had these closes/farmstead localities technically in its [[freehold (law)|freehold]]: The Hyde, Little Potter's Fore, Earlins, Two Downs, Tanley, Green Park, Park Corner, Dean's Piddle, Old Hop Garden.<ref name=p/>
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==Architecture==
===Barley Pound
[[File:Barley Pound.jpg|thumb|Barley Pound]]
'''Barley Pound''' is a large ring-motte with four baileys and is one of the best examples of a [[motte
To the east is '''Powderham Castle'''<ref>Not to be confused with [[Powderham Castle]] in Devon</ref> which was a [[siege-castle]] to Barley Pound. It
===All Saints, Norman Church===
{{main|All Saints Church, Crondall}}
[[File:Crondall, Hampshire, The church of All Saints - geograph.org.uk - 76643.jpg|thumb|right|All Saints Church]]
The 12th-century Norman parish church, All Saints, which operates as part of the Parish of Crondall and [[Ewshot]], has been called 'The Cathedral of North Hampshire'.<ref>{{cite book|title=A History of Crondall and Yateley in the County of Hants, chiefly taken from the churchwardens' accounts and other records in the parish chests.|author=Stooks, C.D.|publisher=Warren & Son Publishing|year=1905}}</ref> It replaced a [[Anglo-Saxons|Saxon]] church on the same site and the [[Baptismal font|Saxon font]] remains from that period. The east end of the
Among notable interior features are an early [[Monumental brass|brass]] of 1370, the dogtooth mouldings of the [[chancel]] arch and the imposing arcades and foliate capitals of the
There have been reported sightings of the ghosts of Parliamentarian soldiers, including a mounted Roundhead in full battle dress, in the churchyard, following the use of the church as a minor outpost during the English Civil War.<ref>{{cite book|title=Paranormal Hampshire|author=Scanlan, David|publisher=Amberley Publishing|year=2013}}</ref>
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050507114809/http://www.hants.gov.uk/record-office/ Hampshire County Archive]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130512214819/http://www.hart.gov.uk/index/community_living/guide-to-hart/discover/places_to_discover-crondall.htm Hart Guide: Crondall]
* [http://www.stainedglassrecords.org/Ch.asp?ChId=1835 Stained Glass Windows at All Saints Crondall, Hampshire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721115409/http://www.stainedglassrecords.org/Ch.asp?ChId=1835 |date=21 July 2011 }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090918081836/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/index.html ''Hampshire Treasures'' Volume 3 (Hart and Rushmoor)] pages [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517075611/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page007.html 7], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080719174123/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page009.html 9], [https://web.archive.org/web/20081006111150/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page010.html 10], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080907081626/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page011.html 11], [https://web.archive.org/web/20081007102635/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page012.html 12], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080829181059/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page013.html 13], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080906121706/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page014.html 14], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908002845/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page015.html 15], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080829135256/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page016.html 16], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110605034559/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page017.html 17], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090921021818/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page018.html 18], [https://web.archive.org/web/20110605034621/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page019.html 19], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080906214310/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page020.html 20], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090420070809/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page021.html 21], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090620024833/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page022.html 22], [https://web.archive.org/web/20090420070815/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page023.html 23], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080829181504/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page024.html 24], [https://web.archive.org/web/20080906121420/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page025.html 25] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20080907234728/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page026.html 26].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110611145448/http://www.hart.gov.uk/crondallcaaandmp_3draftdoc2feb2010pubconsult-2.pdf Crondall Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Proposals]
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