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OS grid reference
  
SU6020

Country
  
England

Post town
  
Winchester

District
  
City of Winchester

Civil parish
  
Meonstoke

Region
  
South East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
Hampshire

Dialling code
  
01489

UK parliament constituency
  
Meon Valley

Corhampton

Population
  
645 (parish) 759 (2011 Census.Civil Parish)

Weather
  
6°C, Wind NW at 16 km/h, 83% Humidity

Corhampton is a village in Hampshire, England. It lies on the western bank of the River Meon. It forms a civil parish with Meonstoke which adjoins it on the eastern bank. At the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Corhampton and Meonstoke.

Contents

Corhampton golf club centenary noel hunt 1


Archaeology

Bronze Age bowl barrows and "Celtic fields" and circular earthworks probably dating from the Iron Age have been found on Corhampton Down in the west of the parish.

Parish church

The Church of England parish church is Saxon and was built around 1020. The font is Norman and there are 13th century wall paintings in the chancel and a canonical sundial on the south wall.

In the churchyard is an ancient yew with a 26 ft girth.

References

Corhampton Wikipedia