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{{Short description|Village and parish in Hampshire, England}}
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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==
'''Crondall''' is a village and large [[civil parish]] in the north east of [[Hampshire]], [[England]] and is all that remains of the ''old [[Hundred (division)|Hundred]] of Crondall'' referred to in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086. Various earlier spellings have in common the use of a "u" instead of the "o" and the village is still properly pronounced "Crundel" although some recent incomers prefer to pronounce the "o". The map of Hampshire in the 1722 edition of [[William Camden]]'s ''Britannia or Geographical Description of Britain and Ireland'' shows symbols for habitation in [[Farnborough, Hampshire|Farnborough]], [[Cove, Hampshire|Cove]], [[Ewshot]], [[Aldershot]] and [[Church Crookham|Crookham]] in the Crundhal (Crondall) hundred.<ref>[[Samuel Lewis (publisher)|Samuel Lewis']] ''A Topographical Dictionary of England'' of 1831 also describes both Ewshot and Crookham as in the parish and hundred of Crondall</ref>▼
Various earlier spellings have the [[English orthography#History|intuitive, post-Norman spelling]] of "u" instead of "o" and the village is still pronounced as it has been for centuries by rooted residents or by those who correctly abstract the sound from 'front': in the 10th century 'Crundelas' was recorded; throughout the 14th century it was 'Crundale'.<ref name=p>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56735 |title=Parishes: Crondall |editor=William Page |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |year=1911 |work=A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 |access-date=28 October 2013 }}</ref>
An [[Old English]] {{lang|ang|crundel}} was a [[chalk pit|chalk-pit]] or [[lime (material)|lime]] quarry, and the word has survived in the name of Crondall. The remains of one quarry can still be seen as a large depression on the golf course.▼
==History==
===Pre-Norman===
▲An Old English crundel was a [[chalk pit|chalk-pit]] or quarry, and the word has survived in the name of Crondall. The remains of one quarry can still be seen as a large depression on the golf course.
Crondall's southern boundary is the [[North Downs]] along which ran the prehistoric [[
Remains of [[Roman Britain|Roman]] settlements have been found close beside the Harrow Way near Barley Pound. Evidence for Roman occupation can be found in the fields as broken tiles and artefacts. In 1817 an intact Roman [[mosaic|mosaic pavement]] was found by a ploughman, 200 yards north of Barley Pound Farm and which is commemorated by a tapestry in the [[parish church]]. Coins from the third century were found in 1869.<ref name=p/>
[[King Alfred the Great]] bequeathed the Hundred of Crondall to his nephew
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{{main|Crondall Hoard}}
The Hundred of Crondall was divided into '[[Manorialism|Manors]]', Itchell, Ewshot, Crokeham, 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 the Lords of the Manor at Crondall on behalf of the monks of St Swithen and later on behalf of Winchester Cathedral.▼
The Crondall Hoard of one hundred and one old French and Anglo-Saxon coins, two jewelled ornaments, and a chain was found in 1828. Some of these date to the fifth century and ninety seven of the coins are now in the possession of the [[Ashmolean Museum]] at Oxford.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page007.html |title=''Hampshire Treasures'' Volume 3 (Hart and Rushmoor) Page 7 – Crondall |access-date=21 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517075611/http://www.hants.gov.uk/hampshiretreasures/vol03/page007.html |archive-date=17 May 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The hoard was deposited after c. 630; of its 101 gold coins, 69 were Anglo-Saxon and 24 were Merovingian or [[Franks|Frankish]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Grierson|first1=Philip|last2=Blackburn|first2=Mark |author-link2=Mark Blackburn (numismatist) |title=Medieval European Coinage: Volume 1, The Early Middle Ages (5th–10th Centuries)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WpQiZ8BX2q8C|date=2 July 2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-03177-6|ref=GriersonBlackburn}}, p. 161</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Skingley|editor-first=Philip|title=Coins of England & the United Kingdom: Standard Catalogue of British Coins 2015|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0w8xrgEACAAJ|date=2014|publisher=Spink & Sons Ltd|isbn=978-1-907427-43-5|ref=Spink}}, p. 84</ref>
====Crondall Hundred====
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▲The Hundred of Crondall was divided into '[[Manorialism|Manors]]', Itchell, Ewshot, Crokeham
===Evolution of the estate===
By the early 19th century the cathedral as manorial owner owned the pick of the surrounding five tithings, the last three of which came to be villages: Crondall, Swanthorpe, and portions of [[Dippenhall]], [[Church Crookham]] and [[Ewshot]]. This contrasted with lesser agricultural fertility land, much of which was [[common land]] and which was no longer connected with the manor.<ref name=p/>
===Itchell Manor===
The Giffard/Gifford of Itchel(l) family acquired a coat of arms in the [[Middle Ages]]. Itchell Manor's gardens (house demolished 1954) were laid out by [[Capability Brown]]. A greenhouse, built 1840, is still in use and a [[Tudor architecture|Tudor]] Gateway remains.
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/>
===Civil War===
All
===Tithe map===
A [[tithe maps|Tithe Map]] of The Hundred of Crondall, dated 1846, is housed at the
==Industry==
Crondall has for centuries been rich farming land. A great variety of soils appear in the area because it lies on the edge of the [[London Basin]] including [[Southern England Chalk Formation|chalk]], [[London Clay|clay]] and heavy fertile [[loam]]. There are many natural [[spring (hydrosphere)|springs]] in the area that were used as [[watercress]] beds and for growing [[Salix viminalis|osier]] trees for [[
==Architecture==
===Barley Pound, Motte and Bailey===▼
To the east is Powderham Castle which was a siege-castle to Barley Pound. It too was founded by the Bishop of Winchester and built during [[The Anarchy]] in the reign of King Stephen. It was originally an earth and timber ringwork fortress, encased by a ditch and with a counterscarp bank. Due to the demolition of its encasing rampart, the ringwork now resembles a low flat-topped motte. It now also has a dense cover of trees. Excavations on the mound have uncovered post-holes and large flints which may indicate former buildings.<ref>[http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_south/186/powderhamcastle.html Powderham Castle at castleuk.net]</ref>▼
[[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-and-bailey castle|ring-and-bailey fortress]] in [[Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.castleuk.net/castle_lists_south/186/crondall.html |title=Barley Pound Crondall |website=castleuk.net |access-date=24 August 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gatehouse-gazetteer.info/English%20sites/1261.html |title=Crondall Barley Pound |website=gatehouse-gazetteer.info |access-date=24 August 2024}}</ref> The fortification may be the "Lidelea Castle" which was mentioned in the ''Gesta Stephani'' for 1147, when it was besieged and captured by [[Stephen of England|King Stephen]]. After its return to [[Henry of Blois]], Bishop of Winchester it was abandoned in favour of [[Farnham Castle]]. Archaeological work has uncovered evidence of an 8-inch thick wall along with a masonry keep.<ref name=Barron>{{cite book |title=The Castles of Hampshire & Isle of Wight |last=Barron |first=William |year=1985 |publisher=Paul Cave Publications |isbn=0-86146-048-0 |page=6 }}</ref>
▲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}}
[[ The 12th
Among notable interior features are an
▲The 12th Century Norman parish church, All Saints, has been called 'The Cathedral of North Hampshire'. 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 Nave dates to 1170. The original bell tower was poorly designed for the weight of the bells it housed and by 1657 the whole tower need to be dismantled to prevent a total collapse. In 1659 a new brick tower, modelled on St Matthews in Batersea, was erected at the NE corner of the original structure.
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>
▲Among notable interior features are an ancient brass of 1370, the dogtooth mouldings of the [[chancel]] arch and the imposing arcades and foliate capitals of the Nave. To date All Saints has undergone two major restorations, the first in 1847 by the architect [[Benjamin Ferrey]] and the second in 1871 under the guidance of Sir [[George Gilbert Scott]]. In 1995 the "National Association of Decorative and Fine Arts Societies" (NADFAS) declared All Saints to be one of the finest examples of architecture of its style in the country. The church is said to be haunted.
Throughout Crondall there are many well-preserved old houses and cottages.
=== Oak Park Golf Club ===
▲===Residential buildings===
The '''Oak Park Golf Club''' was a [[golf club]] near Crondall, [[Farnham]], [[Surrey]] in the [[South East England|South East]] of [[England]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Andy |date=2017-08-04 |title=Grenville-Wood returns to Oak Park Golf Club {{!}} Golf Retailing |url=https://www.golfretailing.com/news/grenville-wood-returns-to-oak-park-golf-club/ |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=Golf Retailing |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-10-28 |title=Drama missing as Oak Park claim Hants Sevens title |url=https://www.farnhamherald.com/sport/golf/drama-missing-as-oak-park-claim-hants-sevens-title-179293 |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=Farnham Herald}}</ref>
▲Throughout Crondall there are many well-preserved old houses and cottages. The [[Pub name origins#The Plume of Feathers|Plume of Feathers]] pub is a fine example of [[Half-timbered|Tudor architecture]] and was a resting stop on the [[Turnpike#Toll roads in the United Kingdom|turnpike]] to [[Portsmouth]].
Oak Park Golf Club was operated by Get Golfing, who acquired it as part of their purchases from Crown Golf in 2020. The golf club closed in 2021 after Get Golfing terminated their lease with the landlord, Crondall Properties.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dunsmuir |first1=Alistair |date=22 January 2021 |title=Charity terminates lease of club less than a year after acquiring it |url=https://www.thegolfbusiness.co.uk/2021/01/charity-terminates-lease-of-club-less-than-a-year-after-acquiring-it/ |access-date=8 July 2022 |website=The Golf Business}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Dunsmuir |first1=Alistair |date=3 December 2021 |title=Landlord loses golf club legal case against charity |url=https://www.thegolfbusiness.co.uk/2021/12/landlord-loses-golf-club-legal-case-against-charity/ |access-date=8 July 2022 |website=The Golf Business}}</ref>
==Notable visitors==▼
A fine panoramic view of this beautiful part of [[Hampshire]] may be gained from Queens View looking from East to West across Crondall. It takes its name from the fact that [[Victoria of the United Kingdom|Queen Victoria]] admired this view whilst inspecting the garrisoned troops at nearby [[Aldershot]] "Home of the British Army". [[Oliver Cromwell]] is reputed to have stayed in the Plume of Feathers in October 1645, when the [[siege of Basing House]] was in progress.<ref>[http://www.plume-of-feathers-crondall.co.uk/history.html Plume of Feathers, Crondall]</ref>▼
▲==Notable visitors and residents==
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Notable residents have included Field Marshall [[Edwin Bramall]], former [[Chief of the General Staff (United Kingdom)|Head of the British Army]] and [[Normandy landings|D-Day]] veteran,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.sky.com/story/lord-bramall-d-day-veteran-and-former-military-chief-has-died-11860045|title=Lord Bramall: D-Day veteran and former military chief has died|website=Sky News}}</ref> and motor racing journalist [[Denis Jenkinson]].{{citation needed|date=November 2017}}
==Statistics==
* There were 1478 households in the [[wards of the United Kingdom|ward]].
==Further reading==
▲:::*according to the 2001 census 3463 people live in Crondall.
* Arnold Taylor ''The Seventeenth-Century Church Towers of Battersea (1639) Staines (1631), Crondall (1659) and Leighton Bromswold (?c. 1640)'', Architectural History
* Roland P Butterfield ''Monastery and Manor. The History of Crondall'' [138p] Printed by EW Langham, Farnham, 1948▼
▲:::*the parish covers 10.7 square miles (27.7 km²).
* Roland P Butterfield (editor)
==References==
{{Reflist}}
▲* Arnold Taylor ''The Seventeenth-Century Church Towers of Battersea (1639) Staines (1631), Crondall (1659) and Leighton Bromswold (?c. 1640)'', Architectural History
Vol. 27, Design and Practice in British Architecture: Studies in Architectural History Presented to Howard Colvin (1984), pp. 281-296
(article consists of 16 pages) Published by: SAHGB Publications Limited
▲* Roland P Butterfield ''Monastery and Manor. The History of Crondall''
▲* Roland P Butterfield (editor) ''[http://openlibrary.org/books/OL22340478M/Ordained_in_powder Ordained in Powder : The Life and Times of Parson White of Crondall]'' Published 1966 by Herald P in Farnham (Sy.) .
==External links==
{{Commons category|Crondall}}
* [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HAM/Crondall/index.shtml Crondall at genuki.org]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110525034101/http://www.envf.port.ac.uk/hantsgaz/hantsgaz/S0001747.HTM Old Hants Gazeteer
* [http://www.assm.org.uk/welcome.htm All Saints and St Mary’s, The Parish of Crondall and Ewshot]
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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)]
* [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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