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The village is set in the beautiful Itchen valley with 16th and 17th century houses and much thatch.
The church, is set apart and has an 11th century chancel, and the box pews and commumion rail are Jacobean.
In the Tichborne Chapel there is a splendid alabaster effigy of Sir Benjamin Tichborne of 1621, who lies with his wife while his children kneel below.
Tichborne House was rebuilt at the start of the 19th century, but the family have owned it since Anglo-Saxon times.
The village is also notable for the famous ‘Tichborne Claimant’ law case in 1871 when an Australian butcher was sentenced to 14years prison for claiming to be Sir Roger Tichborne, heir to the local estates of the Tichborne family.
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- Landmark