Amenities within the Village

 

PUBLIC NOTICE BOARDS

 

Those situated within the Parish and maintained by the Parish Council:

(1) Branksome Avenue.

(2)    Abbot’s Green or Grindstone Green - usually known as Grindstone Green but referred to under both names.

 

PUBLIC SEATS

 

Those situated within the Parish and maintained by the Parish Council or PCC:

(1)    The Memorial Seat and Bus Shelter, Church Farm. In Memory of John Irvine Graham.

(2)    The WI King George V Silver Jubilee Seat, Grindstone Green.

(3)    The 1911 Seat at the Purleygig Bridge. The Common.

(4)    The Memorial Seat and Bus Shelter, Broxton. In Memory of Ileana Rosemary Tait, 1933 - 1966. Removed to store pending new location.

(5)   The 1911 King George V Coronation Seat. West Down above the Coronation Tree.

(6)    The St. Mary’s Church Wives Group Jubilee Seat, Drove Road.

(7) Branksome Avenue Bus Stop Seat.

(8)    The Roybert Bendall Memorial Seat. Area of the 1911 Coronation Tree.

(9)    The Michael A.S Riley Memorial Seat. East of the Church in the Churchyard.

(10)  The 1953 Seat presented by Mrs. M. Disraeli for Testaway Bus Stop.

(11)  The Mr. and Mrs. Denis Corbett Memorial Seat. East of the Church the Churchyard.

(12)  The William Noble Memorial Seat. West end of the Church in the Churchyard.

(13)  The 1990 Sir James King Memorial Seat. On the green adjacent to Poplar Dene.

(14)  The Ken Holland memorial seat on the playing field.

 

VILLAGE HALL

 

In September 1890, the Rector, The Rev. Henry Pereira, launched an appeal to raise funds for a Reading Room and Club for the village, offering a portion of Glebe for a site. £200 was raised by public subscription in two weeks and a site was presented to the Parish by The Right Reverend Richard Durnford, Lord Bishop of Chichester. The family had been resident in Chilbolton since The Reverend Richard, the village’s longest serving Rector, came to the village in 1803 and whose wife owned much land in the village. The Hall was designed by W.D. Caroe MA of New Bond Street, London - the tender of £310 by Charles Grace of Clatford was accepted, and the Foundation Stone was laid by The Very Reverend G.W. Kitchin DD, the Dean of Winchester, on l1th April 1891. The hall was completed and opened on 15th September 1891. From around 1933 the hall ceased to be used in its original form and was used as a Village Hall until it was closed in July 1999, when modern requirements indicated the need for a new hall. The old site was sold to help raise funds to build the new hall and after nearly ten years of planning and negotiations, the new Village Hall in Eastman’s Field, off Drove Road, was officially opened on Friday, 24th September 1999, by Mrs. Mary Fagan, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire.

 

COW COMMON

 

Owned and maintained by the Parish Council. Designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in 1988 it is part of the Test Valley Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA).

 

MEMORIAL PLAYING FIELD

 

The Playing Field was bought by public subscription in July 1948 as a village memorial to the servicemen of the parish who gave their lives in World War Two. It is maintained and operated by the Memorial Playing Field Committee on behalf of the Parish Council. Access is gained via Joy’s Lane and The Common also via Whitelands Footpath (Footpath 2) from Coley Lane.

 

GARDEN ALLOTMENTS

 

The Parish Council owns five Allotments in the Old Chalk Pit at the junction of Winchester Street/Martins Lane.

Applications to:

The Clerk to the Parish Council:

      Mrs. Maggie Hobbs CSH S020 6AQ      01264 860749            hobbsfamilyhome@AOL.com