Chineham
Occupation of the village is thought to go as far back as 2000BC and and Anglo Saxon settlement from 600-800AD has been discovered here. The records go back to when Edward the Confessor ruled and Chineham estate was a part of the Parish of Monk Sherbourne. Around 1086 the manor was held by Aghemund from Hugh de Port who also owned Monk Sherbourne. 

William de Chineham died in 1316, an he owned the manor from 1272, his son Richard succeeded him but the manor was burnt down in 1317. In 1346 on the death of Richard the estate was bequeathed to his son John who in turn passed it on to William Brocas.

Again the manor was passed on, this time in 1431 to William Warblington of Sherfield on Loddon, he died in 1460 and his wife Margaret lived there until around 1484, and the manor was subsequently passed to William Puttenham the son of Henry, William's Cousin, then again it was passed to Richard, the grandson of William Puttenham in 1552.

The church was replaced by a modern brick building just  over  the road and two
new houses were constructed on the old site.

Chineham was just a tiny hamlet with a medieval moat around it by the 1800s but by the middle of the 1960s around 70 bungalows, wooden shacks and railway carriages appeared along the road to Reading.  The Basingstoke end of the village had a transport cafe a coal office and a boarding house and a village shop and small garage was in the village centre. A tiny wooden church was replaced by Christ Church and in the heart of the village was the village hall which collapsed in the late 1960's. Still standing though at the end of the village is a toll house.

Many changes to the village occurred during the 1970s and this included the building of a new housing complex near to the old toll house, a bypass cut the toll house off from the village and the wooden houses were replaced by two storey brick houses and more estates began to appear.

The woods that surrounded the village were demolished and again houses were built there and in the fields that surrounded it.