Hampshire Treasures

Volume 9 ( Test Valley South)

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Description and Date	Remarks		Protection	Grid Ref. and Punchcard No.
Group A - Natural Features
Trees	Windwhistle Road. Various species in this vicinity.		T.P.O. No. 2 T.V.D.C.	SU 306 187 2527 20
Trees	Hamdown Crescent. A single lawson cypress and a number of other trees to the rear of property in this road.		T.P.O. No. 23 T.V.D.C.	SU 305 189 2527 19
Trees	Maury's Lane. Three single oaks and a group of oak.		T.P.O. No. 39A	SU 288 194 2525 25
Trees	Long Clump, The Drive. An area of scots pine and silver birch and a single specified oak. Grid reference is a central point.		T.P.O. No. 74 T.V.B.C.	SU 204 188 2525 24
Trees	Windwhistle Lodge, Windwhistle Road. Belt of trees consisting mainly of oak, beech, birch and scots pine.		T.P.O. No. 85	SU 305 185 2527 15
Trees	Barnes Close. Several species to the rear of properties between Button Lane and Barnes Corner.		T.P.O. No. 528	SU 294 195 2527 18
Heathland	West Wellow Common. Part of the New Forest. Site of Special Scientific Interest. The grid reference locates the central point within the parish.		S.S.S.I.	SU 284 183 2527 23
Group B - Archaeological Sites and Remains
Stone Age
Implements	Two Neolithic axes found in the vicinity of Embley Common in 1846. Present whereabouts not known. parish. O.S.A. No. SU32 SW2.			SU 322 209 2527 16
Group D - Buildings, Monuments and Engineering Works

Church C.13	St. Margaret, East Wellow. Founded 1215. Flint built with stone dressings. Consists of a chancel, nave, south aisle, a modern north vestry, weatherboarded square timber-framed bell tower and a C.14-15 porch to the south. The latter is of plain open timber with dwarf walls and has a cusped bargeboard. Two dormer windows on this elevation indicate the previous existence of a south gallery. The nave bas a 'barn' roof of Queen Post trusses and cross bracing. C.13 wall paintings show the Martydom of Thomas A'Beckett and St. Christopher carrying the Infant Christ. There is a memorial gravestone to Florence Nightingale in the churchyard. O.S.A. No. SU32 SW3. Ref: 1. V.C.M., Vol. 4, p.538. Ref: 2. Buildings of England; Hampshire and I.O.W., (Pevsner and Lloyd), p.204-5.		T. & C. P. Act	SU 302 204 2527 01

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