The story down the centuries of an English parish and its church is so often fascinating in its richness and variety of character and incident.
Bishopstoke is such a parish. Here we have much social history, glimpses of great national events like the Battle of Trafalgar, and accounts of distinctive personalities such as John 'Bilious' Bale of Tudor times and Thomas Garnier, Rector from 1807 to 1869 and Dean of Winchester.
The history section is split into two distinct sections, one regarding the Church buildings and one covering the bells within St Mary’s.
