Tattingstone

A village that has been here since the 6th century and mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 it had three Anglo-Saxon manors. Pieces of Romano British pottery have been found suggesting there had been a settlement here.

The church of St Mary has an unusual entry as it by way of the north door from the main road. The south doorway looks out onto the green.

The road to the White Horse once a very busy coaching inn and now on the edge of the reservoir would have been lost if Lemon Hill bridge had not been built to access it.

Another village with a gruesome tale to tell, when in 1967 when two suitcases containing a dismembered body were discovered in the gateway to a field skirting the road to Bentley and the saying by the villagers of ‘One and two halves’ is quite appropriate.