Dibden is a small village in Hampshire, England, which dates from the Middle Ages.

The name "Dibden" is from the Old English for "deep valley", although the village is only slightly lower than the land around it.

[4] Descending with his granddaughters to Robert Count of Dreux, it fell, with the rest of the honour of St. Valery, into the hands of the Crown, when it was given to Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall whose son Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall died in 1300 seised of a fee there which belonged to the honour of St.

[4] It passed to her daughter, Alice, who became the wife of Richard Waller of Groombridge, who died in 1486.

[4] In 1544 Sir John Rogers sold the manors to William Webb, Mayor of Salisbury in 1523 and 1534.

In 1360 Walter Nott, parson of the church of Michelmersh, reserved a messuage and 2 carucates in Dibden from a grant of land which he made to Romsey Abbey.

William Webbe owned it when he died in 1627, leaving an only daughter and heir Rachel wife of Sir John Croke of Chilton.

[5][6] Buried in the churchyard are members of the Lisle family, Royalists who fought against Monmouth in the Battle of Sedgemoor.

[8] Since the 1950s the villages of Hythe and Dibden Purlieu have grown enormously, and today the parish is dominated by those two settlements.