Church Crookham

Church Crookham is a large suburban village and civil parish, contiguous with the town of Fleet, in northeast Hampshire, England.

In the 13th to 14th centuries, the De Burgh family held notable lands in Crookham of (under) the Prior and Convent of Saint Swithun, Winchester.

[5] The parent sprawling parish of Crondall (in Crondall Hundred) was mostly rural at this time, with the 1831 edition of Samuel Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England, which used the census returns to assess that Crookham had 623 inhabitants and not even mentioning the (at the time) much smaller Fleet.

[11] Redfields hosted the British Pioneer Tobacco Growers Association (BPTGA) after World War II.

Charles Baggs served as the general manager, and Admiral Sir Clement Moody was among members.

The BPTGA closed after the death of owner Troward but Baggs supplied plants and cure the members' product some time after.

[14] Replaced by housing (Crookham Park) and landscaping from 2012, the British Army's 1938 to 2000 Queen Elizabeth Barracks was quite central in the parish.

These include the 2002 James Bond movie Die Another Day, which used woodland and flat ground between the village and Aldershot to represent the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea.

[18] Church Crookham was also one of several English towns and villages (others including nearby Aldershot, Farnham, and Chobham) that served as filming locations for the 2006 movie Children of Men.