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Besides it being an Iron Age hill fort Tatchbury Mount
in later times was a home to sailors
stationed there at HMS Safeguard during WWII and it was also a psychiatric
hospital and it is still used by the NHS today,
Today Calmore is a thriving community with large
housing estates as well as an industrial estate full of light
industries, though it is called the Calmore Estate it comes under the
Parish of Totton and Eling but the village of Calmore used to be
administered by Netley Marsh.
The village hall, church, school and post office
are the main sources of village activity and a riding school which I
used to spend a lot of time at, also flourishes. But today there are new
pubs, shops and schools to cope with large community that has suddenly
descended on this tiny community.
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"Laurel Bank", Cooks Lane, Calmore
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St
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Like most
Hampshire villages Calmore has its own ghost as Cook's Lane was said to have
been named after the cook at Testwood House who was murdered and
she is said to appear in the lane every anniversary of her
death.
Great Testwood House became a
part of Williams and Humbert the sherry importers and many tales
of haunting have been told, so much so that it is said that one
room had to be bricked up.
The village shop and post office has always
been a busy place
and today it still remains a focal point for residents, even
though new shops have been built on the estates, which have grown in the last decade or two, right up to Netley Marsh
itself.
Wwhat used to be fields between there and
Tatchbury Mount though to Netley Marsh is now a maze of houses and dual carriageways,
and even a national supermarket.
Left Calmore Post
Office and stores
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IMAGES OF
CALMORE
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Wood Lodge Calmore
Photograph by James William Parker of Wood Lodge and 27
Canal Walk,
Southampton,
(Wood Lodge was his home and Canal street his photography
studio, he also
had the "Standard " Cinema in East Street) and a fruit and Veg
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View of St Anne's Church |
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The modern interior of St
Anne's
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Cottages on Calmore Road |
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