Dockenfield
| Dockenfield | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 Church of the Good Shepherd | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU8289340582 |
| Location: | 51°9’31"N, -0°48’58"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Godalming |
| Postcode: | GU10 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Waverley |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
South West Surrey |
Dockenfield is a village and civil parish in the far east of Hampshire adjacent to the border with Surrey. It has a population of 421.[1] The civil parish originates as a tything of the ancient parish of Frensham, otherwise in Surrey.
History
- Main article: Farnham and Farnham Castle
Dockenfield, was one of the unnamed tythings of Farnham owned by the Bishop of Winchester in 1086 and the Domesday Book confirms the tythings as his at the time of the Norman Conquest. At that time the area's largely agricultural workers rendered £55.[2] The Bishop of Winchester built Farnham Castle to live in, and he and his successors did so from 1138.
In 1239 the ecclesiastical parish of Frensham was created and first church built, which still remains the parish in Anglicanism. Frensham is a scattered village centred a mile to the east, that also covers Millbridge and Shortfield Common/Spreakley, which are its hamlets much closer to its centre.[3]
It was recorded in the Calendar of the Close Rolls (i.e. of letters close) of Edward III (r.1327–1377)[4] as "Dockenfield, Dokkenfeld, co. Southampton". In 1866 its civil parish was created.[5]
Geography
The west of the parish adjoins Alice Holt Forest, part of the South Downs National Park. The east of the parish is marked by the River Wey (south branch) middle of the parish forms a ridge crowned by two small knolls; all of the parish drains into this watercourse, but in the south of the parish the land slopes to the south, whereas in the north an east-west stream rising in the parish drains the main settled part of the village, which is in terms of its housing, a linear settlement with four settled cul-de-sacs.
Landmarks
Dockenfield has no listed buildings or parks (public or private). The Church of the Good Shepherd, built 1910,[6] village hall and war memorial on The Street connect religious and secular occasions to the village's established community.[7]
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References
- ↑ Census data
- ↑ Domesday Map Retrieved 29 October 2013
- ↑ St Mary's Church
- ↑ Calendar of Close Rolls, Edward III: volume 9 (1906)
- ↑ Relationships and changes Vision of Britain – the University of Portsmouth and others
- ↑ Parish Finder: Church of the Good Shepherd The Church of England
- ↑ OS Map with Listed Buildings and Parks marked