They are reached by the B3046 north of Alresford, the first village you meet is Brown Candover with its church dedicated to St Peter which stands proudly in a field away from the road.

The Parish of Chilton Candover got its name from the two villages of Chilton and Brown Candover, both of which are shrunken villages which were quite busy duiring the Middle Ages and the ancient Lunway which was used as a route for oxen crosses the parish.

It was in 1086,tha the manor of Chilton Candover was held of the Bishop of Winchester by Richard de Audely who was an ancestor of the Daundely family who held the manor until 1372 and was henceforth handed to members of the Bayntun family, and  Robert Bayntun was captured at the Battle of Tewkesbury, Sir Edward was Vice Chamberlain to three of Henry VIII's queens. In 1562 the manor was bought by John Fyssher and he is famed fore pulling down the houses at Chilton Candover and evicting all the inhabitants!

The manor seemed to change hands quite regularly and it was in 1662 that Sir Henry Worsley took possession, and in 1747 after the death of his grandson he passed it to his other grandson Robert, Lord Carteret who late became Lord Granville and in 1818 it was again bought by Alexander Baring, Lord Ashburton and remained with this family. A later Lord Ashburton became the Lord Lieutenant of the county.

The manor of Brown Candover was until the 10th century owned by the Crown and it was then granted to Hyde Abbey where it stayed until the Dissolution of the Monasteries and it was then granted to Sir William Paulet, Lord St John.

Then in 1571 it was purchased by Roger Corham but later it returned to the Paulet family in the 17th century.

At the beginning of the 18th century it had been passed to the Worsleys of  Appluldurcombe and Chilton Candover.

It was around the time that work was going on in the church at Chilton Candover that they discovered the crypt of a Norman church which consisted on an apse and a room that was tunnel-vaulted and separated by an arch. The walls were around a metre thick and small windows were set just above the level of the ground.

Also found were old coffins lids and a font that went back to the Norman era. What was unusual was the fact that a parish church had a crypt as these were normally reserved for much larger places of worship including cathedrals but there are one or two recorded, but not many from the Norman period are left. Access to the crypt is by way of a field which has signs of what may have been a village here at the same time.

The backroad to Alresford is dominated by what is said to be the longest avenue of Yew trees in England, being over a half mile long and Cobbett said about them 'they have probably been a century or two in growing" and that "the yew will last as long as the timber of any other tree that we grow in England'.

It is not known when the avenue of trees was planted but it is though that they might have led to a large house that was demolished around the 18th century.

The name of the local inn the Bangor seems to indicate a Welsh connection and you would be right in thinking this as it was on a route used by the Welsh drovers who passed through with their flocks and the Woolpack Inn at Totford also acquired its name through this.