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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In The Village
Ship Hill
Credit: Garry Allam, Bishop's Sutton Heritage; curated by Mark Allen
Ship Hill about 1900
Looking towards the Ship inn which is hidden behind a row of thatched cottages which caught fire in the 1930’s and were then demolished. The site is now the Ship Inn's car park.
Same view, 2011
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The Ship Inn, 1948
The 18th century Ship Inn, Bishops Sutton. From a 1948 glass negative by Donald Birkenshaw
Bishop's Sutton Shop c1906
It seems that this picture was taken around 1906, and that Ernest and Ada Follet had the shop after 1901 and had left to run a shop at Hook by 1911. Their son John was born in Bishops Sutton 1906.
Padwicks Blacksmiths Shops c 1910 and Mount Villas
The smithy moved from the main road to the barn (now garages) at Stocks cottage, School Lane
Mount Villas and the site of the Blacksmiths, 2011
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The Ship Inn on left. Old Ship Cottages on right c1910.
The Ship Inn dates from the late 18th century, possibly earlier; the Old Ship Cottages date from the 16th century.
It has been said that the Old Ship Cottages were the original Ship Inn, although as of yet there is not any documentary evidence for this, even though it is a much older building. As to the reason why the Inn is so named it could be one of many. A lot Ship public houses contain old ship timbers; many before the Dissolution of the Monasteries were owned by religious houses and often called the Ark and it was common to change the name so as to try to show no allegiance to anything Catholic.
The word Ship is often a corruption of Sheep as can be seen in some local field names.
Ship Cottages 1930s
The row of Cottages that stood between the Ship Inn and Ship Hill Cottages after a fire in the 1930's - after which they were demolished. They would have been parallel to the road in what is now The Ship Inn Car park.
