Liss
In 1086, at the time of the Domesday Survey, the manor of Liss probably formed part of the original endowment of the abbey of St. Mary at Winchester. The manor was later known as Liss Abbess, and the Abbess and nuns of Winchester kept the land until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1538. Liss remained crown property until about 1610.
The village centre used to be in what is now West Liss on the triangular patch of ground known as the Plestor (derived from ‘playstow’, or playground). This is where the village stocks were, near the ancient oak which now entirely hollow. That changed with the advent of the railway in 1859 in East Liss, which is today the main part of the village.
A local Liss tradition concerns the ceremony of beating the bounds of the Parish. A small boy was traditionally put in the oven of the Flying Bull Inn as the Parish boundary was believed to pass through the kitchen of the inn.
Local celebrities include Edward Arthur Dorking who was one of the 705 survivors of the Titanic when he was just 19.In 1933 a military railway known as the Longmoor Military Railway was built from Liss Station to the Longmoor Army Camp. The railway was used as a set for many films including “The Great St Trinian’s Train Robbery”. It closed in 1963.
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The Liss Riverside Railway walk runs along the now disused railway line:
