Section 1
The first section Is the short length of the west boundary with New Alresford. The length of the boundary between BIshops Sutton and New Alresford Parishes is only three quarters of a mile.
The perambulation starts on what is now the B3047 just the Alresford side of the Railway bridge at what was called Bowling Close Gate, and headed south with Bowling Close on the Sutton side and Marrow Ditch on the Alresford side.(Bowling close being subsequently cut through when the railway was built 120 years later). Sweatly Row is the hedge row on the west of the solar farm. The Cump would have been in the corner where the old section of White hill Lane is, when it was cut of by the A31 bypass. The boundary then runs west just north of the old section of White Hill lane, then turns south again to cross the old White Hill Lane at its junction with Appledown lane. Appledown Gate would have been about there.
Village History
Village History
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Bishop's Sutton in Film
This is a wonderful archive of early film of the rural past, from the 1940s onwards.
From bailing and threshing in the 194Os, through the evolution of machinery, lost watercress beds and village fetes. Two of our Queen's Jubilees, and cattle sales, these are an important historical artefact that gives us a glimpse into a Bishop's Sutton that very few now remember.
Films have been digitally reworked by Mark Allen, from original cinefilm transposed to VHS and sold to raise funds for the new village hall in the early 1990s.
Films are reproduced here by kind permission of Peter Mills & Ed Petitt-Mills, David Hole and Kaia Allen. Images or videos on this website may not be used for any reason outside of this website unless with the copyright owners' prior permission.
