OS grid reference SU365585 Country England Post town Andover Shire county Hampshire | Region South East Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district SP11 0xx District Test Valley | |
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Linkenholt is a village near Andover in Hampshire, England with about 40 inhabitants. At the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil Parish of Faccombe. The Domesday Book of 1086 records it as Linchehou, when it was part of the land of the Abbey of St Peter of Gloucester.
Map of Linkenholt, Andover, UK
The village is in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Linkenholt includes a 2,003-acre (811 ha) estate that has an Edwardian manor house, 21 cottages and houses, 1,500 acres (610 ha) of farmland, 450 acres (180 ha) of woodland, a village shop and a blacksmith's forge. The Church of England parish church of Saint Peter is not part of the estate.
Herbert Blagrave bought the estate in 1964 and it passed to the trustees of the Herbert and Peter Blagrave Charitable Trust on his death in 1981. The trustees sold the estate for an estimated £25 million in May 2009 to Swedish businessman Stefan Persson.