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Evidence of human activity at Bishop's Waltham goes back at least nine thousand years, when hunters of the Middle Stone Age were taking flints from the river valley close to the present town centre for the manufacture of their tools. Numerous other finds show that the area was populated through the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. There are also a number of number of Roman villas, farms and kiln sites nearby and a Roman road from Winchester to Chichester passes through the parish.

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