Chilbolton

Chilbolton
Hampshire
Chilbolton
Location
Grid reference:	SU392399
Location:	51°9’25"N, 1°26’19"W
Data
Population:	1,010  (2011)
Post town:	Stockbridge
Postcode:	SO20
Dialling code:	01264
Local Government
Council:	Test Valley
Parliamentary constituency:	Romsey

Chilbolton is a village in Hampshire, near to Stockbridge. It is to be found four miles south of Andover and 18 miles north of Southampton. Its most notable feature is the Chilbolton Observatory situated on the disused RAF Chilbolton airfield.

The parish church, St Mary the Less, dates back to the 12th century, on the site of an earlier wooden church. The River Test runs through Chilbolton Common.

Chilbolton is recorded in the Domesday Book under the name Cilbodentune.

See also

• Chilbolton Observatory

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Chilbolton)

• Chilbolton and Wherwell
• Publications featuring Chilbolton
• The Abbots Mitre Chilbolton and Cottonworth Trail