Although Roman settlement here prior to Saxon times cannot become proved, there were Roman settlements not far away at Odiham and Silchester. Prior to Roman days the metropolitan metropolitan area was probably fairly heavy wooded by owning water & a swampy area. The little award around the wooden church within the vicinity of St Mary’s Church would even keep around existed in Saxon days. The cervid park, which stretched from either Odiham to the outskirts of the settlement and to the north, was used for 600 years by Royalty and others for hunting and a wood was utilized for fuel.

A village would own been involved in the Hundred of Odiham in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was a share of King Harold’s royal estate at Odiham and when 1066 it became King William’s land.

Around medieval times Odiham was a settlement of some size & importance. All about Centred years when a conquest a lands comprising Hartley Wintney became a separate manor owned per Fitz-Peters personal; this conquest. This personal afterward gave land to the Cistercians to noticed the Priory of Nuns.

When you took a 2nd globe war, a village was a residence of Field Marshal Alan Brooke (late Viscount Alanbrooke); Viscount Alanbrooke remained inside a village until his death in 1962; his immature boy, the third Viscount Alanbrooke still lives in the village. Field Marshal Brooke is buried around the village god's acre, next to the remains of his girl world health organization was flushed in the horse riding accident.