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Welcome to West Tytherley
West Tytherley is a compact village with a good mixture of timber framed cottages, Victorian cottages and houses and more recent, mostly brick, buildings.
The church is brick and flint, and although not built until 1833, looks earlier Georgian. The Victorians altered the windows so that they were more in keeping and added the stone chancel. There is an unusual west gallery and a complex Purbeck marble font, early medieval, from the earlier church. A memorial to members of the Baring family is by the entrance porch, which is a very large, flamboyant gesturing angel. The church be found at the southern end of the village main street.
The parish council of West Tytherley is also responsible for the smaller parishes of Buckholt and Frenchmoor. Buckholt has the Borough's smallest Parish population consisting of 10 people. There are patches of woodland in this area which are remnants of Buckholt Forest, one of the hunting grounds of Saxon and Norman Kings. William I preferred more open woodland than Buckholt and turned his attention south, where he planted the New Forest. At only 379 acres, Frenchmoor is the smallest Parish, by area, in the Test Valley. In the Parish of Frenchmoor is the site of a deserted village and also an old well called the Devil's Hole.
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