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Shalden
Shalden is a small village around three miles from Alton. At the time of the Domesday Survey it was held by William Maudit, and had strong connections with Hartley Maudit.
The village orginally had a Saxon church but this has now been replaced. The new church dedicated to St Peter and St Paul was built in 1865 by the generosity of the then Squire of the village.
The village acquired notoriety through its association with the murder of ‘Sweet Fanny Adams’ in 1867. She was horribly butchered by Frederick Baker who had offered her a halfpenny to accompany him towards Shalden from Alton. She refused and he carried her into a hop field and killed her.
