St Leonards Church
In Britain there are only 174 churches dedicated to St Leonard and this one is the last remaining building in the ancient and abandoned village of Hartley Mauditt in Hampshire. It was built between 1150 and 1200 and is still in use but serves a community of more modern and diverse parishioners.
According to the Domesday Book compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086, the hamlet of Hartley Mauditt was considered to be medium sized with 13 households, 8 villagers and 5 smallholders. It had ploughlands, plough teams, 6 acres of meadow and 30 swine render.
Today, all that remains of the hamlet is this Church, the foundations of a manor house and a pond. The area adjacent to the Church is shown as an abandoned medieval village on Ordnance Survey maps. It is thought that once the manor house was demolished in the 18th century the village went into a steady decline and eventually abandoned.
St Leonards Church
In Britain there are only 174 churches dedicated to St Leonard and this one is the last remaining building in the ancient and abandoned village of Hartley Mauditt in Hampshire. It was built between 1150 and 1200 and is still in use but serves a community of more modern and diverse parishioners.
According to the Domesday Book compiled for William the Conqueror in 1086, the hamlet of Hartley Mauditt was considered to be medium sized with 13 households, 8 villagers and 5 smallholders. It had ploughlands, plough teams, 6 acres of meadow and 30 swine render.
Today, all that remains of the hamlet is this Church, the foundations of a manor house and a pond. The area adjacent to the Church is shown as an abandoned medieval village on Ordnance Survey maps. It is thought that once the manor house was demolished in the 18th century the village went into a steady decline and eventually abandoned.