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Crondall

Crondall
Crondall1.jpg
A typical village house in Crondall
Crondall is located in Hampshire
Crondall
Crondall
Crondall shown within Hampshire
Population 1,770 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference SU795488
Civil parish
  • Crondall
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Fleet
Postcode district GU51
Dialling code 01252
01276
Police Hampshire
Fire Hampshire
Ambulance South East Coast
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament
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UK
England
HampshireCoordinates: 51°13′59″N 0°51′47″W / 51.233°N 0.863°W / 51.233; -0.863

Crondall /krʌndəl/ is a village and large, rural civil parish in the north east of Hampshire, England and all that remains of the Crondall Hundred also surveyed in the Domesday Book of 1086. The village is on gentle slopes of the low western end of the North Downs range, has the remains of a Roman villa. The Crondall Hoard was a relatively large Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian coins find in the parish and despite the English Reformation, Winchester Cathedral (or its Dean and Chapter) held the chief manors representing much of its land from 975 until 1861.

Various earlier spellings have the intuitive, post-Norman spelling of "u" instead of "o" and the village is still pronounced as it has been for centuries by rooted residents or by those who correctly abstract the sound from 'front': in the 10th century 'Crundelas' was recorded; throughout the 14th century it was 'Crundale'. An Old English crundel was a chalk-pit or lime quarry, and the word has survived in the name of Crondall. The remains of one quarry can still be seen as a large depression on the golf course.

Crondall's southern boundary is the North Downs along which ran the prehistoric Harrow Way, an ancient unpaved route in Britain which ran from the Cornish tin mines to Dover in Kent. Near this stretch of today's Pilgrims' Way is evidence for neolithic settlements: an Iron Age earthworks at Caesar's Camp.


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