Section 1
The first section Is the short length of the west boundary with New Alresford. The length of the boundary between BIshops Sutton and New Alresford Parishes is only three quarters of a mile.
The perambulation starts on what is now the B3047 just the Alresford side of the Railway bridge at what was called Bowling Close Gate, and headed south with Bowling Close on the Sutton side and Marrow Ditch on the Alresford side.(Bowling close being subsequently cut through when the railway was built 120 years later). Sweatly Row is the hedge row on the west of the solar farm. The Cump would have been in the corner where the old section of White hill Lane is, when it was cut of by the A31 bypass. The boundary then runs west just north of the old section of White Hill lane, then turns south again to cross the old White Hill Lane at its junction with Appledown lane. Appledown Gate would have been about there.
Village History
Village History
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St. Nicholas Church
The Norman church at Bishop's Sutton was built in the 12th Century, on the previous site of a Saxon church.
Built by the Bishop of Winchester Henry de Blois to service the community around the Bishop's Manor and hunting parklands that he created at the time.
The Church was added to and parts rebuilt over time during the 13th and 14th Centuries, and the church and manor prospered until the English Civil War and the Reformation of the 17th Century and wiped away the colourful detail and important aspects of the church - such as the Rood Screen and the adjacent chapel. The whitewashed walls, bare altar and conservative feel stems from that period.
It is not known in what period the Church became dedicated to St. Nicholas.
Information about our church, the vicar, wardens, worship calendars, etc can be found on the Benefice website for the three local churches (ours, Ropley and West Tisted) at:
