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Just south of the M3 motorway near Basingstoke is the village of Cliddesden which surrounds the church of St Leonard and the village pub and the village pond which has been completely refurbished. During the Domesday Survey the manor was held in the hands of Durand de Gloucester and later it descended to the Fitz-Herbert family. The ancient Hampshire family of Wallop later became the lords of the manor during the 15th century and throughout the next hundred years they were repeatedly fined for encroaching on land and letting animals stray onto the surrounding fields. Hatch is also a part of the parish and is a small detached area in the west which was until the end of the 14th century a separate parish and in 1311 it had become the property of Cliddesden. Railway enthusiasts can still see evidence of the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway which ran through the centre of the village up till the 1930s and there was a bridge which crossed the main street. The old station was once used, under the name of Buggleskelly a fictional Irish village, in a scene for a film in the 1930s called Oh! Mr Porter and starred Will Hay.
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