Linkenholt

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title: "Linkenholt" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-hampshire", "test-valley"] description: "Village and parish in Hampshire, England" topic_path: "general/villages-in-hampshire" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linkenholt" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village and parish in Hampshire, England ::

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Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	St. Peter's Church, Linkenholt 02.jpg
static_image_caption	St. Peter's parish church
coordinates
official_name	Linkenholt
shire_district	Test Valley
shire_county	Hampshire
region	South East England
constituency_westminster	North West Hampshire
post_town	Andover
postcode_district	SP11
postcode_area	SP
os_grid_reference	SU365585
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Linkenholt is a village near Andover in Hampshire, England with about 40 inhabitants. It is in the civil Parish of Faccombe.

Geography

The village is in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Linkenholt includes a 2003 acre estate that has an Edwardian manor house, 21 cottages and houses, 1500 acre of farmland, 450 acre 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.

History

The history of the Manor of Linkenholt traces back beyond Domesday Book of 1086. From the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042–66) until after the Dissolution in the mid-1500s, the Manor of Linkenholt was granted by successive monarchs to the abbot and convent of St Peter, Gloucester. The Domesday Book records it as Linchehou, when it was part of the land of the Abbey of St Peter of Gloucester.

In 1629, the estate was bought by Emanuel Badd for 2,000 pounds and was sold in 1680 to Amsterdam merchant Robert Styles for 12,000 pounds. The estate remained in the same family until the early 19th century. Roland Dudley bought it in the 1920s.

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. All of the buildings in the village are rented to tenants.

Geography

Linkenholt has a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) just to the north west of the village, called Combe Wood and Linkenholt Hanging.

References

References

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7. (24 May 2009). "Fashion boss buys village off the peg". [[The Times]].
8. Pearse, Damien. (25 May 2009). "H&M billionaire Stefan Persson buys Hampshire village for £25m". [[The Guardian]].
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