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West Tisted Manor Estate

Set in the heart of Hampshire, the estate is nestled at the top end of the Meon Valley in the village of West Tisted. Surrounded by Alresford to the West, Alton to the North and Petersfield to the East.

The Estate comprises of approximately 2800 acres of land, this is mainly farmed to Arable including crops such as rape, peas, wheat and barley. There is approximately 230 acres of grassland which accommodates a dairy milking herd and store lambs during the Autumn. There is also an indoor unit which loose houses our pig herd.

There are Silos with a storage capacity of 6500 tonnes, these silos are electronically monitored to give fast and accurate information on the condition of grain during storage. We also have weighbridge facilities on the Farm.

The rest of the Estate consists of woodland, which is being steadily increased by the planting of new woodland each year, including planting in the established woodland. Hedges are cut and gapped up where necessary, these gaps are plugged by hedge planting rather than fencing. The perimeter of the estate is gradually being converted to natural fences rather than manufactured. There is a small village which is used predominantly to house the farm staff.

The parish of West Tisted is ancient enough to be named in a Saxon Charter dating back to 941AD. At the time of the Domesday Book it belonged to the Bishops of Winchester, and reference is made to a great Yew Tree which still stands near the Church and is believed to be one of the oldest Yews in the country with a present day girth of almost 30 feet.The Manor and its lands were owned by the Tisted family in the 12th Century, the original Manor House was Elizabethan surrounded by a dry moat and was the home of Sir Benjamin Tichborne.

Many of the field names are suggestive of their ancient origin, such as Merryfields (the scene of jousting and tournaments), Cannon Dell (following a skirmish in the Civil War), Devil's Jump (the scene of a Saxon victory over 9th Century Danish invaders), Ben Oak (as in Sir Benjamin's Oak) and Telegraph (the site of a semaphore Station maintaining communication between Portsmouth and London in Napoleaninc times).